Left Hand, Right Hand! An Autobiography [4 of 5 volumes] by Sitwell, Osbert - 1952

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1952. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo. Volume I. Left Hand, Right Hand!: xvi, 271 (1) pp, introduction, I. The Cruel Month; II. Let There Be Light!; index with b&w illustrations, and a fold-out Line of Discent at back. Reprint, 1952. Volume II. The Scarlet Tree: 318 (1) pp, III. Chambers of the East; IV. The Happiest Time of One's Life; Appendix: A. The Verelsts; B. Father and Son; C. The History of the Cold; D. Paters' Match; E. The Camorra Trial; index with b&w illustrations. Reprinted, 1959. Volume III. Great Morning: 323 (1) pp, V. Mars Victoryall; VI. The Rose and the Thorn; index with b&w illustrations. Reprinted, June 1948. Volume IV. viii, 380 (1) pp, list of b&w illustrations, VII. Three Lions in a Grove; VIII. Le Galop Final; Appendix: A. The Exhibition of Modern French Art, 1919; B. Primavera and Fellow-Guests; index. First Edition, 1949. "Sir Osbert Sitwell's autobiography is planned as a five-volume work. The narrative, however, reaches its culmination in the fourth volume, Laughter in the next room, the fifth volume though closely related to the others, contains a series of separate studies of personalities, and will thus be different in kind. Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet (1892-1969) was an English writer. His elder sister was Edith Sitwell and his younger brother was Sacheverell Sitwell. Like them, he devoted his life to art and literature. In 1943 he started an autobiography that ran to four volumes: Left Hand, Right Hand (1943), The Scarlet Tree (1946), Great Morning (1948) and Laughter in the Next Room (1949). Sitwell's autobiography was followed by a collection of essays about various people he had known, Noble Essences: A Book of Characters (1950), and a postscript, Tales my Father Taught Me (1962)." Price clipped. Vol. 4 (1st Edition). Only the slightest wear to dj and cloth, else, Pristine, no wear. Clean, tight and strong binding with no underlining, highlighting or marginalia. Orange cloth with black title plate and gilt lettering to spine, and illustrated endpapers.