London: Chatto & Windus, 1998. Bright, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. An attractive copy of the tough-to-find, true First Edition. SIGNED copies are especially scarce. Not a book club edition. Not price clipped (£25.00). No chips or tears. No owner's name or bookplate. No remainder mark. Biography by the bestselling author of Mountbatten and King Edward VIII. From the Dust Jacket: "Osbert Sitwell, poet, novelist, essayist, grandee, literary pugilist... was at the heart of every literary fracas from 1918 until well after 1945. He was a close friend and sometime sparring partner of [T.S.] Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly, and a ferocious enemy of Sir John Squire, Noel Coward, the Leavises and Winston Churchill... Meticulously researched and beautifully written, this entertaining biography provides some extraordinary social insights and a striking overview of literary Britain in the twentieth century, as well as a moving portrait of a most remarkable writer and human being." Source notes. Bibliography of books by Osbert Sitwell. Bibliography of books about Osbert or the Sitwell family. Bibliographical notes. Index. SIGNED by the AUTHOR on Chatto & Windus bookplate. First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Near Fine dust jacket. 8vo. xiii, 461pp + 16 pages of photos. .

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Bookseller: About Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 011384
Title: Osbert Sitwell [signed]
Author: Ziegler, Philip
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine condition
Jacket Condition: Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: First Printing of the First Edition
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1998
Bookseller catalogs: Literature / Literary Biography / Criticism;
Size: 8vo. xiii, 461pp + 16 pages of photos.

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