Rustic Elegies de Sitwell, Edith - 1927

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1927. First US Edition. Hardcover. Fragments of the DJ laid in. .

Cover is tight but spine is missing. Former owner's name, otherwise clean interior. Pictures on request

Knopf, 1927. First. Very tiny stain on front cover, name and address neatly inked on front flyleaf, otherwise near fine; no dust jacket.. First Edition.

Duckworth, 1931. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1931. The New Library Edition. 94 pages. Orange jacket over blue cloth with gilt lettering. Pages are mildly foxed & tanned throughout. Heavier to text block edges. Text is clear. Binding is firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with bumping to corners. Light crushing to spine. Gilt lettering remains bright and clear. Unclipped jacket. Panels have light edge wear with tears and creasing. Noticeable white staining. Visible tanning all over.

Duckworth, 1927. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1927. No Edition Remarks. 95 pages. No dust jacket. This is an ex-Library book. Brown cloth boards with lettering. Black and white pictorial frontispiece. Ex-library copy, with expected inserts and inscriptions. Clean pages with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers and pastedowns. More pronounced to half title page and last page textblock. Pencil and pen markings to front pastedown and free endpaper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards.

Knopf, 1927, hardback, copyright 1927, no edition stated, NAP, green cloth, uncut, Near Fine/Poor dust jacket stablized in brodart (lower half of dj spine missing & balance severed along the edge, chipping, age discoloration) POETRY; G0795 .

NY: Knopf, 1927. First American edn. William F. Matthews. 8vo, pp. 69. Frontis portrait by William F. Matthews. Green cloth. Cover little worn at corners and ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy. One of 950 copies printed. Fifoot EA15b.

London: Duckworth, 1927. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition.. 94pp + 1pp notes; Slight shelf-wear else a bright copy; Previous owner's signature to ff.e.p.; Size: 12mo.

London: Duckworth, 1931. cloth, dust jacket. 12mo. cloth, dust jacket. 94, (2), 15 pages. First issued in New Readers Library, 1931. First New Readers Library edition (first published, Duckworth, 1927). Endpapers partially darkened, scattered foxing, blue boards marked on the front cover, lightly soiled orange dust jacket.

London: Duckworth, 1931. Hardcover with price clipped dust jacket, First Printing of this New Readers Library edition (first edition was in 1927), 94 pages plus one page of Notes, plus a 15-page catalogue of other titles; elegant little book in royal blue covers with very bright and clear gilt lettering to spine, very gently used, not a trace of shelf wear to exterior, tight in binding, very clean and unmarked throughout; DJ age darkened, rubbed along edges, several very tiny chips. See also our listings for Taken Care Of: The Autobiography of Edith Sitwell, and for Osbert Sitwell's Noble Essences or Courteous Revelations: being a book of characters and the fifth and last volume of Left Hand, Right Hand! . First Thus. Hard Cover. Fine/Very Good -.