THE COLLECTED POEMS OF EDITH SITWELL by Sitwell, Edith - 1930

Duckworth, 1930. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1930. No Edition Remarks. 278 pages. No dust jacket. Fully bound in blue leather. Pages remain bright and clear with minimal tanning and foxing. Thumb-marking present. Noticeable creasing to gutter. Cracking to gutters, with exposed netting. Pages remain intact. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Visible crushing to spine ends. Noticeable tanning to spine and edges. Small splits to spine ends. Notable peeling leather to spine and edges. Some marks and scratches to boards.

Duckworth, 1931. Hardcover. Acceptable/Acceptable. 1931. Reprinted. 278 pages. Dust jacket over black cloth with gilt lettering. Light foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free endpapers. Moderate cracking and mild staining to gutters causing some looseness to binding but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Clipped dust jacket is in two pieces with moderate rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

Vanguard Press, 1968. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

UsedVeryGood. There is a signature or handwriting on the inside front cover. Pages are clean! The dust jacket has minor damage or small tear. Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

NY:: Vanguard Press,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1954. Hardcover. First edition thus. Previous owner's name on front paste-down, else very good in a very good (edge worn with a chip at the base of the spine, both corners of front flap are clipped) dust jacket. ; 442 pages .

Vanguard Press. hardcover. Very Good. 5x0x7. Hardcover. Very Good / Acceptable Mylar-protected, price clipped dust jacket. Free of any markings and no writings inside. Clear Text. Minor shelf-wear. Paper loss on jacket: bottom half of spine is gone. Paper loss on top edge of jacket. Drawings on inside of jacket that are not visible with Mylar.

NY: The Vanguard Press, (1954). First edition; 8vo.; black cloth covered boards; 1,442 pages; inscribed: "To MissFlorence Waterbury with admiration fro Edith Sitwell; a very good, clean, tight, copy in a rubbed and chipped dust jacket with the $6.50 price intact.

Overlook TP, 2006-10-31. Paperback. Good.

Vanguard Press, 1968-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 1968 Vanguard Press hard cover - 1st edition 1st printing - there is a signature of Sitwell on 2nd blank page but she died in 1964 so I find it unlikely that she signed it - owner's name on top closed page edge - minor wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) minor staining to page edge - price clipped - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - enjoy

New York: The Vanguard Press, 1954. Book. Very Good. Original Cloth. Association Copy. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Black cloth, lettered in gilt. Slight shelf wear, text block edges a bit toned by age. Dust jacket shows mild rubbing to corners and spine extremities, small U-shaped tear along lower spine panel, top corner of front flap clipped (with $6.50 price intact on bottom corner, so not exactly "price-clipped"). l,442 pp. Presumed 1st, with no additional printings indicated. Poet John Ciardi's copy, with his signature on front flyleaf and his internal notations to several poems, on pp. 134-135, 169-171, extensive notations to "Three Poems of the Atomic Age" (pp. 364-372), 377, 408-414, perhaps a few that we missed, also a note in his hand on Twayne Publishers letterhead that may have been the start of a review: "Dame Edith will reward the most patient reader with a querelous [sic] sort of grace, but he will have to fuss his way… Read More