Edith Sitwell – A Scholarly Archive
£225.00
A small archive of works by and related to Edith Sitwell. The first piece, a first edition of her collection ‘The Shadow of Cain’, is in near fine condition, cast down from the fine grading due to the toning along the front and rear panels. It has not been price clipped and retains the original 3’6 net price sticker. Also present is a brief guide of Weston Hall, the Sitwell estate in Towcester, Northamptonshire by Francis Sitwell, the nephew of the poet Edith. It is in very near fine condition, with some handling marks present. There is a small pamphlet from the National Portrait Gallery, London, dated to 1994-95 and titled ‘The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 30s’.
Two further pieces are ‘Edith Sitwell’ by C.M. Bowra. Published by The Lyrebird Press in Montreal, 1947, it is a near fine copy of “an excellent & enlightening essay on Sitwell’s poetry, the poets who influenced her, & how she made her own unique contribution to modern poetry”. The third and final piece is a scholarly typescript by P.D. Hobsbaum, the late British teacher, poet and critic. Typed,on Abermill Bond paper, there are forty two leaves of scholarly material, titled ‘Misreadable Poems: The Colour Problem in Edith Sitwell’. The essay is preceded by Sitwell poems ‘Spring’, ‘Out of School’ and ‘The Wind of Early Spring’, each with typing errors and neat pencil annotations. The following article is also annotated by hand and with an extensive list of references beginning on the twenty-eighth.
Overall, this is a fine archive of works by/on Edith Sitwell. The journal article is not showing via online searches and so it is presumably unpublished and remains only in this typescript.
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A small archive of works by and related to Edith Sitwell. The first piece, a first edition of her collection ‘The Shadow of Cain’, is in near fine condition, cast down from the fine grading due to the toning along the front and rear panels. It has not been price clipped and retains the original 3’6 net price sticker. Also present is a brief guide of Weston Hall, the Sitwell estate in Towcester, Northamptonshire by Francis Sitwell, the nephew of the poet Edith. It is in very near fine condition, with some handling marks present. There is a small pamphlet from the National Portrait Gallery, London, dated to 1994-95 and titled ‘The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 30s’.
Two further pieces are ‘Edith Sitwell’ by C.M. Bowra. Published by The Lyrebird Press in Montreal, 1947, it is a near fine copy of “an excellent & enlightening essay on Sitwell’s poetry, the poets who influenced her, & how she made her own unique contribution to modern poetry”. The third and final piece is a scholarly typescript by P.D. Hobsbaum, the late British teacher, poet and critic. Typed,on Abermill Bond paper, there are forty two leaves of scholarly material, titled ‘Misreadable Poems: The Colour Problem in Edith Sitwell’. The essay is preceded by Sitwell poems ‘Spring’, ‘Out of School’ and ‘The Wind of Early Spring’, each with typing errors and neat pencil annotations. The following article is also annotated by hand and with an extensive list of references beginning on the twenty-eighth.
Overall, this is a fine archive of works by/on Edith Sitwell. The journal article is not showing via online searches and so it is presumably unpublished and remains only in this typescript.
