The Canticle Of The Rose / Selected Poems, 1920-1947 -

London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Good. Gilt cloth.; No dust jacket, foxed; name on endpaper.

NY: Macmillan & Co., 1949. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste-down (& store sticker as well); foxing to end-papers & edges; with slight scuffing to extremes; and bumped top corners. D.W. shows darkening to extremes and minor edgewear. . First Edition. Hard Cover. VG/VG.

. good. . *****NOT A SIGNED COPY******* MacMillan, with fading to dustjacket, clean copy, slight age toning to pages, no markings, Professional booksellers since 1981 . 1950. Hardcover.

Macmillan, London, 1949. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing). 8vo. x, 260pp. Blue buckram with gilt lettering and decoration to the spine. Covers a little faded in places and slightly rubbed at the head of the spine. Fore edges and preliminary leaves foxed, otherwise a good, bright copy. Missing dust wrapper. 3,000 copies were printed. Fifoot EA43..

London: MacMillan & Co Ltd, 1949. First Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Blue Hard Cover. Spine ends slightly rubbed, spine slightly faded. Previous owners name on endpaper. Pages slightly age toned, else fine. 274pp all in vey good condition. Dust Jacket, spine darkened & edges of cover, rubbed and frayed at extrems. Price Clipped.

Macmillan,, 1949. 8vo., First Edition; buckram, gilt back, neat signature on front free endpaper else a near fine copy in the dustwrapper, the latter a little sunned at backstrip. With a number of relevant cuttings loosely inserted. Fifoot, EA43a

London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1950 . Cloth. Very Good/Good. 9" by 6". None. A lovely second edition anthology by Edith Sitwell with original dust wrapper. A Second Edition of Edith Sitwell's anthology of selected poems between 1920-1947 with original publisher's cloth binding and dust wrapper.Edith Sitwell was the eldest of the Sitwell siblings, sister to Sacheverell and Osbert Sitwell. She suffered much critique as well as praise for her talent. Sitwell was rewarded the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature and became a DBE in 1954.Includes 105 poems and notes page.Prior owner's ink inscription from 1952 on the recto of the first free endpaper and pencil annotations throughout.Gold engraved lettering on the spine. Includes unclipped dust wrapper. In publishers original cloth binding with dust wrapper. Externally generally smart. Dust wrapper is slightly worn to the extremities and has some marking. Some minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and the extremities where the dust… Read More

New York, The Vanguard Press. 1949. . First American edition, first printing, author's presentation copy; 8vo; publisher's black cloth, titles to spine gilt, rose device to spine in pink, with the dust jacket. A very nice copy in the dust jacket. With the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, 'For darling Georgia because the last section contains four extra poems with my best love from Edith'. A beautiful family association - the recipient was Edith's sister-in-law having married Sacheveral in 1925. Also worth noting the bibliographical point made in the inscription, this book has important additions which do not appear as far as I can in ant British version of this title.

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1949. . Second edition, author's presentation copy to Sacheverell Sitwell; 8vo, (22.3 x 15 cm); half-title, light foxing to endpapers and foredge; publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettering to spine, unclipped pictorial dustjacket, some foxing to lower wrapper, otherwise a very good copy; [x], 274pp. Inscribed by the author in pencil to her youngest brother, 'For / my darling Sachie / with best love / from Edith'. A beautiful family association from sister to brother.