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Volume of poetry by Edith Sitwell. Book in Good condition with a Fair dust jacket. Binding still tight, with some staining along the edges. DJ price clipped. DJ with browning, wear and chips missing. See photos for better idea of condition, email me with any questions.

New York: Vanguard Press, 1953. Book. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 61 pages, some wear/ soiling to dust jacket..

London: Macmillan, 1953. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/price-clipped dj. 8vo, 45 pages, red cloth; faded edges of dj w. fore-edge break; inscription [Fifoot EA 48]

Macdonald, UK, 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. Book Size: Slim 8vo (8 to 9 inches). Item Type: Book. Binding tight, spine fine. Previous owner's name in ink. Moderate marks and wear to book and jacket. Now protected in non-adhesive plastic wrap..

London: MacMillan. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1953. First Edition. Hardcover. DJ has a few small edge tears and a browned spine. Two photos of Sitwell, clipped from periodicals, taped to the front endpapers. .

First Edition; 8vo; pp. viii, 46; notes, original red cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, dustjacket, fine copy. London, MacMillan, Co. Ltd., 1953.

London, Macmillan, 1953.. 46pp.8vo. Original cloth in worn dustwrapper. Offsetting to endpapers. Name on ffe, article and portrait of author pasted to verso of ffe and htp. Small mark on title-page. Some notation in pencil otherwise a good reading copy. . First edition.

London: MacMillan. 1953. 1st ed., pp.viii, 46, some off-setting to eps, orig cl bds in price clipped and frayed d.j., very good condition 1st edition. cloth boards in d.j..

London, Macmillan, 1953.. viii+46pp. 8vo. Original cloth. Some off-setting to endpapers. A very good copy of the first edition.

London, Macmillan, 1953.. 46pp.8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper. Name on ffe, a very god tight copy.. First edition.

London: Macmillan & co, 1953. First edition (ie first impression), hardback. 8vo (22cm by 14cm), vii, 46pp. Original red cloth, dustwrapper. Light browning of the endpapers, else the book is in very good condition; the dustwrapper is in good condition (a little rubbed, edges chipped). The dustwrapper has now been put in a mylar cover to protect it.

London: MacMillan & Co LTD, 1953. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Octavo. A clean, unmarked and unclipped copy in a Brodart jacket cover.

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1953. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition by one of Britain's most prominent and celebrated women poets throughout four decades. Among the notable admirers of Sitwell's work were W. B. Yeats, Stephen Spender, Marianne Moore and Siegfried Sassoon. Described by Cyril Connolly as an 'alternative to Bloomsbury', Sitwell and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell, were the focus of a significant movement in English literature. 8vo. 60 pp. With six black and white illustrations. An about very good copy showing som e damping to the front and back boards and inside the dustwrapper that has minor chipping to the crown of the spine and top of the front panel. Priced accordingly. (Fifoot EA48b).

New York: Vanguard Press, 1953. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Fine-. First Edition, American issue, one of only 2500 copies, published the same month (November) as the London edition, which had a print run of 4000. Demy 8vo (234 x 151mm): 60,[2]pp, with six full-page black and white illustrations (including frontispiece). Publisher's half-bound lime-green cloth, spine lettered in silver, violet paper-covered boards, upper board decorated in gilt and in blind with butterflies and stars; illustrated dust jacket priced $2.75. About Fine (dusty top edge, very lightly faded spine but lettering unaffected); about Fine jacket with moderately toned spine and back panels, but front panel vibrant. Fifoot EA48b. Collects eleven poems never before published (omitting "A Bird's Song," "The Stone-Breakers," "Out of School," and "A Love Song" from the London edition. "The religious symbolism that informs Sitwell's war poetry was further emphasized in Gardeners and Astronomers (1953) and The Outcasts (1962),… Read More

London: Macmillan and Co., 1953. *Price HAS BEEN REDUCED by 10% until Monday, May 20 (sale item)* first British edition; 46 pp., Hardcover, fine in a very good dust jacket. - If you are reading this, this item is actually (physically) in our stock and ready for shipment once ordered. We are not bookjackers. Buyer is responsible for any additional duties, taxes, or fees required by recipient's country.

New York: Vanguard Press. 1953. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good+ in a Very Good dust jacket. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

London: MacMillan & Co Ltd, 1953. 46 pages, clean and clear. White endpapers. Red cloth cover with gilt titles on the spine. Faded spine. Beige DJ with blue and purple titles and decoration. Light wear along the edges. VG+/VG+.

London: Macmillan & Co , 1953. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". None . First edition, first impression of this charming collection of poems by Edith Sitwell, a smart copy. Edith Sitwell's poetry anthology, containing poems which reflect the author's assurance of the spiritual patters behind the materiality of the atomic age. Concerning themes of birth, death, indignation, unity of life, rebirth in spring, &c. The first edition, first impression of this work. Complete with unclipped dust wrapper. Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was the eldest of the three literary Sitwells, known for her dramatic style and exotic costumes, her work praised for skilful technique.  In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally lovely with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine. Dust wrapper unclipped and generally smart with minor shelf wear, sunned to spine and wraps, titles faded to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1953. First American edition, one of 2500 copies only. 61 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. Fine in green unclipped fine dust jacket. First American edition, one of 2500 copies only. 61 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Fifoot EA48b

London: Macmillan, 1953. A first edition, first printing of Gardeners and Astronomers by Edith Sitwell, published by Macmillan in 1953. A very good book inscribed by the author on the front free end paper in blue ink, the front board, spine and rear panel in general good condition, text block with some browning to the top edge and browning to the front and rear free end papers. In a very good unclipped wrapper with browning to the spine, minor chips to the head and foot of the spine and to the knuckles of the front and rear folds. Gardeners and Astronomers by Edith Sitwell contrasts the earthly toil of gardeners with the celestial pursuits of astronomers. Through vivid imagery and poetic language, Sitwell juxtaposes the mundane tasks of tending to nature with the lofty exploration of the cosmos. Yet, she ultimately suggests a shared reverence for beauty and discovery, whether found in the intricacies of a flower or the vastness of the stars. Sitwell's contemplative verse invites readers to… Read More