Ɵ AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPIES TO SACHEVERELL AND GEORGIA SITWELL: 4 vols., first editions, 1920-1937. comprises: MOORE, Marianne. (1887 - 1972). Collected Poems. Author's Presentation copy to Georgia and Sacheverell Sitwell. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1951. first US. edition, 8vo., (203 x 145mm), publisher's navy-blue cloth, gilt lettered to spine, dustwrapper unclipped, priced $3.00, inscribed by the author in green ink to front free e/p., 'For my Georgia and Sacheverell Sitwell / who are giving in receiving. / Marianne Moore / October 20. 1952', half-title, integral title page, without errata slip at page 9, printed copyright to verso of title-page, with National Book Awards 1952 gold banner, lettered in blue, 180pp. printed in USA and bound in blue boards, following the withdrawn American issue with orange boards printed and bound by Faber & Faber for both the English and American markets. The American issue was printed with an integral title-page for Macmillan, and exported to the United States. Moore's Collected Poems swept the major literary awards for poetry, winning the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize; BYRON, Robert. (1905 - 1941). The Road to Oxiana. Author's Presentation copy to Sacheverell Sitwell, London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1937. first edition, 8vo., (203 x 145mm), publisher's royal blue cloth, gilt lettered to spine, inscribed by the author in black ink to front free e/p., 'To / Sachie / who will understand what there is / to understand / from / Robert', half-title, 16 plates, (including frontispiece), 5 full-page maps, 341pp, 2pp. adverts at end. Robert Byron was a British travel writer, art critic and historian. An account of the author's travels around Persia and Afghanistan, considered on of the most influential travel books of the 1930s. The word 'Oxiana' in the title refers to the ancient name for the region along Afghanistan's northern border; ACTON, Harold. (1904 - 1994). Humdrum. Author's Presentation copy to Georgia Sitwell. Chatto & Windus, 1928. first edition, 8vo., (194 x 135mm), publisher's orange cloth, gilt lettered to spine, lower edge untrimmed, inscribed by the author in black ink to front free e/p., 'To dear Georgia, / hoping to while away / a fast and fleeting / hour or so of her / valuable time / with love / from / Harold. / October / 1928', half-title, 312pp, 4pp. publishers adverts at end. The author's first novel, which he was forced into writing, as his publishers were not prepared to publish his verse unless he gave them a novel as well. The title of the book, amusingly, has a wider significance than at first thought. 1500 copies of the book were printed. Sir Harold Mario Mitchell Acton, was a British writer, scholar, aesthete, close friend of The Sitwells, and a prominent member of the Bright Young Things. Harold Acton is reputed to have inspired, at least in part, the character of Anthony Blanche in Waugh's novel 'Brideshead Revisited' (1945); BAXTER, Arthur Beverley. (1891 - 1964). The Parts Men Play. Author's Presentation copy to 'Babs' Doble, (Georgia Sitwell), London and Edinburgh, W. & R. Chambers, Ltd., (1920). first edition, 8vo., (192 x 140mm), publisher's brown cloth, lettered in black to spine, inscribed by the author in black ink to front free e/p., 'To 'Babs' Doble / This is not a good / book but it could / have been worse. / The heroine is not / unlike you, except / that she had red hair / and a heart. / On second thoughts / it is a very good book. / And perhaps in your / next re-incarnation you / may have . . . . red hair! / from Bax / Jan 14/24', foreward by Lord Beaverbrook, 444pp., 2pp. adverts. at end. Sir Arthur Beverley Baxter was a journalist and politician. 'Bax', as he was known to his friends, met fellow Canadian Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, proprietor of the Daily Express in 1919, and joined the newspaper as a lead writer and reporter, becoming managing-editor in 1922. William Walton dedicated a piano arrangement of a piece from Façade (1926) to Baxter's wife, Edith. During the General Strike 1926, Osbert Sitwell and Siegfried Sassoon waited for, and met Baxter outside his Chelsea flat at 2 am, and discussed moderation of the 'bellicose' tone on the strike taken by Express, with the hope of influencing Beaverbrook and seeing the strike resolved. 'Babs' (Georgia) Doble, (1905-1980) was the Canadian born daughter of wealthy banker, Arthur Doble, she married Sacheverell Sitwell in Paris, 12 October, 1925.Provenance: The Sitwell Family Library, Weston Hall.(QTY. 4) Condition Report 1. MOORE, Marianne. Collected Poems. Author's Presentation copy to Georgia and Sacheverell Sitwell - the National Book Awards 1952 gold banner, lettered in blue, present but torn, and loosely inserted within the book.