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Wrack at Tidesend: A Book of Balnearics. Being the second volume of England Reclaimed.

Wrack at Tidesend: A Book of Balnearics. Being the second volume of England Reclaimed.

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Wrack at Tidesend: A Book of Balnearics. Being the second volume of England Reclaimed.

by SITWELL, Osbert

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London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1952. . First edition, first impression, author's presentation copy to Sacheverell and Georgia Sitwell; 8vo (22.3 x 15 cm); very light spotting to prelims, internally clean; publisher's smooth orange buckram, gilt lettering to black panel on spine, black topstain, unclipped pictorial dustjacket, light marks and edge nicks to dustjacket, overall a bright, clean copy; [xvi], 94pp.
Inscribed by the author and dated in blue ink to front free endpaper, 'For / darling Sachie and Georgia / with love / from Osbert / May.5.1952'.

Containing over eighty poems, this is the second volume of the 'England Reclaimed' trilogy, which Sitwell began in 1927. Only 3000 copies were printed.

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Title
Wrack at Tidesend: A Book of Balnearics. Being the second volume of England Reclaimed.
Author
SITWELL, Osbert
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Place of Publication
London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1952.

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