Hand and Eye - An Anthology for Sacheverell Sitwell.
by SITWELL, Sacheverell. Elborn, Geoffrey (edits)
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Privately printed at the Tragara Press, Edinburgh., 1977. First edition. Four-page Preface by Ronald Stevenson. Octavo. Unpaginated. One of 175 numbered copies. Frontispiece, showing the entrance to Kirby Hall, by John Piper; drawing, ''Hands'', by Henry Moore. Cloth-backed green paper boards, printed label on spine. Published to celebrate Sacheverell Sitwell's eightieth birthday, contains poems by Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, John Betjeman, George Mackay Brown, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, R.S. Thomas, Hugh McDiarmid, Stephen Spender, George Barker, Jon Silkin, Patric Dickinson, and the editor. Fine in near-fine plain white dustwrapper creased at edges.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SITWELLS008540
- Title
- Hand and Eye - An Anthology for Sacheverell Sitwell.
- Author
- SITWELL, Sacheverell. Elborn, Geoffrey (edits)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately printed at the Tragara Press, Edinburgh.
- Date Published
- 1977
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