LOT 533 Ɵ POETRY & OTHERS: VARIOUS AUTHORS. 12 VOLS., 1918 - 196...
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Ɵ POETRY & OTHERS: Various Authors, 12 vols. 1918 - 1961. comprises: JONES, E.B.C. (Emily Beatrix Coursolles 'Topsy' Jones, 1893 - 1966). [editor]. Songs for Sale An Anthology of Recent Poems. Oxford: Blackwell, 1918. first edition, 8vo., (200 x 150mm), decorative black and white card wrappers with printed paper label to front, (lacks label to spine), edges untrimmed, half-title, '1918' written in pencil manuscript beneath half-title, possibly in Edith Sitwell's hand, contributors include Aldous Huxley, Osbert Sitwell, E. Wyndham Tennant, the editor and others, Fourth of the Initiates Series of Poetry by Proved Hands, printed in Oxford at the Vincent Works, and sold in America by Longmans, Green & Co., New York, 60pp., within a modern clear protective folder; PROUST, Marcel. (1871 - 1922). Within a Budding Grove, London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. second impression, 8vo., (195 x 138mm), publisher's blue cloth, gilt lettered to spine, blue top, others untrimmed, translated by C.K. Montcrieff, small bookseller's label to lower pastedown, The Holliday Bookshop, New York, 396pp; ELIOT. T.S. Sweeney Agonistes. Fragments of an Aristophanic Melodrama, Faber and Faber, 1932. first edition, 8vo., (195 x 130mm), pale blue cloth, lettered in red to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, 31pp; WEBB, Margaret. Early English Recipes Selected from the Harleian Ms. 279 of about 1430 A.D., Cambridge: The University Press, 1937. first edition, 8vo., (222 x 130mm), illustrated cloth-backed boards, gilt lettering to spine, half-title, wood-engravings by Margaret Webb, Introduction by Sir Stephen Gaselee, recipes include A Goos in Hogepotte, Oystrys in Gravy Bastard, and Puddyng of Purpaysse, 37pp; De La MARE, Walter. (1873 - 1956). The Burning Glass and Other Poems by Walter de la Mare. Faber & Faber, London, 1945. first edition, 8vo., (202 x 145mm), publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-, 106pp; LEWIS, C. Day. Word Over All. Jonathan Cape, London, 1945. second impression, 8vo., (205 x 147mm), beige cloth, lettered in red to spine, red top, others untrimmed, dustwrapper unclipped, the inside of the dustwrapper showing part of a different book's red and black design for front cover, front flap and spine, 'Time to Kill' by Alex Brown, dedicated to Rosamond Lehmann, 52pp; LEE, Laurie. (1914 - 1997). The Bloom of Candles. Verse From a Poet's Year. John Lehmann, London, 1947. first edition, 8vo., (202 x 143mm), publisher's yellow paper boards, lettered in black to front, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, 12 poems, printed at the Caxton Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, 20pp; PHELPS, G.H. [editor]. Living Writers. Being Critical Studies Broadcast in the B.B.C. Third Programme . . . Sylvan Press, 1947. 8vo., (190 x 130mm), publisher's black cloth, gilt lettered to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, half-title, includes Sean O'Casey by Denis Johnstone; E. M. Forster by Rose Macaulay; Walter De La Mare by Dylan Thomas; Aldous Huxley by Peter Quennell; T. F. Powys by Louis Marlow, etc. bound by Novello & Co. Ltd. London, 157pp., with a loosely inserted manuscript Hatchards Bookseller's sale receipt to Miss Edith Sitwell, Renishaw Hall, Nr. Sheffield, 25.2.1948, recording the authors purchase of this book, and postage of one Express letter; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle, 1886 - 1961). Selected Poems. Grove Press Inc. New York, (1957). 8vo., (210 x 142mm), publisher's beige cloth, lettered in black to front and spine, half-title,128pp. Hilda Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, memoirist. She published under the pen name H.D., and was one of the leading figures in the bohemian culture of London associated with the early 20th-century avant-garde Imagist group of poets. PLOMER, William. (1903 - 1973). Collected Poems, Jonathan Cape, London, 1960. first edition, yellow cloth-backed blue boards, lettered in black to spine, author's blindstamped signature in silver to front, two half titles, 225pp; with a loosely inserted typescript Dillon's University Bookshop Ltd. sale receipt to Edith Sitwell, Renishaw Hall, Nr. Sheffield, August 15th, 1960, recording her purchase of this book, Campbell: Poems, and Jones: Life and Opinion of Hulme: with HAMILTON, Patrick. The Slaves of Solitude, Constable, London, 1947. first edition, 8vo., dustwrapper unclipped, 242pp.; MILLER, Henry. The Cosmological Eye. Editions Poetry London, Nicholson & Watson, London, 1945. first edition, 8vo., dustwrapper unclipped, 351pp.Provenance: The Library of Dame Edith Sitwell(Qty. 12).
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