Sacred and Profane Love
by Sitwell, Sacheverell
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, pink clothbound boards fair but with some spotting and fading, silver spine titling (on red hear
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1940. 1st. hardback. Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, pink clothbound boards fair but with some spotting and fading, silver spine titling (on red heart) faded; guttering weak, otherwise text block firm, untrimmed pages good but with occasional pencil markings and typed note glued to p303. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Sir Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell, 6th Baronet CH (1897 - 1988) was an English writer, best known as an art critic, music critic (his books on Mozart, Liszt, and Domenico Scarlatti are still consulted), and writer on architecture, particularly the baroque. Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Osbert Sitwell were his older siblings. He described this book as a banquet of the five senses and hopes in this statement of his theme to have achieved a work of literature. And with 8 full-page plates + 16 small engravings in the text The full-page illustrations include two of William Blake's Surinam engravings.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC88133
- Title
- Sacred and Profane Love
- Author
- Sitwell, Sacheverell
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good, 1st edition, missing d/j, pink clothbound boards fair but with some spotting and fading, silver spine titling (on red hear
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1940
- Pages
- 317
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- culture, arts, Sitwell
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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