Gold Coast Customs

London: Duckworth, 1929. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". Not Stated. A beautiful first edition of Edith Sitwell's thought provoking poem on the nature on humans, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. The first edition of this work. In the original unclipped dustwrapper. 'Gold Coast Customs' is a poem pondering the… Read more about this item

London: Duckworth, 1929. [Poetry] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.[63 [1]. With a black and white portrait frontispiece of the author. Publisher's black cloth lettered in red to spine and upper. With the illustrated orange dust-jacket, priced at 5s to front flap. Black ink ownership to fly-leaf, otherwise internally crisp and clean. Light wear to jacket edges, with… Read more about this item

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Golden papercovered boards with black cloth spine and paper spine label. Book store label on rear pastedown, edges rubbed and lightly age-toned, spine label darkened, very good lacking the scarce dust jacket. Poetry.

London: Duckworth, 1929. Black cloth, lettered in red to upper panel and spine. 7.5" by 5". Frontispiece portrait of Sitwell by Pavel Tchelitchew. About fine, in lightly spotted pictorial dust jacket. First edition. Sitwell's long poem of 500-plus lines combines both dense and obscure language with a bleak picture of modern London. Gold Coast Customs is set first… Read more about this item

London: Duckworth, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. 16mo. Orig. black cloth, 63pp. Frontispiece. Light foxing, spine faded with rear joint starting, o/w a very good copy. Edith Sitwell (1887-1964) was a British poet and critic. She believed that "Poetry is the deification of reality, and one of its purposes is to show that the dimensions of… Read more about this item

1929. SITWELL, Edith. GOLD COAST CUSTOMS. Portrait Frontispiece by Pavel Tchelitchew. London: Duckworth, [1929]. Sm. 8vo., cloth in dust jacket. First Edition. [Fifoot EA18]. Only 2,000 copies were printed. Signed presentation from Sitwell on front endpaper: "For Mr. William Yeo, with best wishes from Edith Sitwell. 6 January 1949." Near fine;… Read more about this item

Boston 1929 first edition. Mifflin. 63p. 12m hrdcover. Mounted printed spine present and in near fine condition. Good plus with slight toning throughout and mild wear to cover extreme tips. Good, worn and lightly soiled, DJ; no chips, no tears, spine ends and tips worn down; price not clipped. .

London: Duckworth, 1929. 1st edition. Small mark on half-title; else fine in a lightly soiled dust jacket. Small 8vo, portrait frontispiece by Pavel Tchelitchew black cloth.

Duckworth, 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Duckworth 1929 first edition, Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover.

London: Duckworth, (1929).. First edition.. 64 pp. Top edge dusty, foxing to title page and frontispiece, else very near fine in very near fine dust jacket with light tanning to spine. One of 2000 copies. Frontispiece author portrait by Pavel Tchewlitchew, Russian painter and friend of Edith and Osbert. A nice copy. Fifoote A18.

London : Duckworth, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Panel edges somewhat dulled and dust-toned as with age. Corners sharp with an overall tight, bright and clean impression. Physical description; 63 p. ; 19 cm. Subjects; English poetry 20th century. Ghana Social life and customs ; Poetry.

BOST: Houghton Mifflin, 1929. in gold boards and black cloth with spine label in tact. The first edition of this book of poetry by Ms. Sitwell. Nice, clean copy.. VG+.

Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 5 1/4" x 7 5/8. GOOD/NO DUST JACKET. Former Library Book. 63 pp. including notes by the author. Text clean, except for small ink blot on p. 36, and the usual library treatments. Gold textured paper over boards with black cloth spine with publisher's paper… Read more about this item

London: Duckworth, [1929].. [1929].. Very good. - Octavo, black cloth titled in orange on the front cover & the spine, in its original light orange pictorial dust wrapper. The covers are very lightly bumped, and there are a very few short tears along the edges of the dust jacket. 63 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Edith Sitwell by… Read more about this item

London: Duckworth. Hardcover. Used - Good.