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Ɵ SITWELL, Edith. (1887 - 1964). Twelve Works: Two Author's Presentation copies, and one related volume, 1915-1952. comprises: The Mother and Other Poems. Author's Presentation copy. Printed for the author, Oxford: Blackwell, 1915. first edition, 8vo., (195 x 150mm), original dark grey, thinly sewn paper wrappers, lettered in black, inscribed by the author in black ink to top of the front cover, 'To Mrs Schumacher / with best wishes from Edith Sitwell', edges untrimmed, leaves uncut, half-title, 1pp. Note, 'Drowned Suns' and 'Serenade' were first published in The Daily Mirror, priced 6d., 20pp. NPG. tissue wrapping with label. The Authors first book of which 500 were printed and 200 were pulped by the printers c. 1925. National Portrait Gallery Exhibition. The Sitwells: 14/10/94 - 22/1/95. Catalogue No. b30 / 2.61; Jane Barston 1719-1746. London: Faber & Faber, n.d. (c. 1932). 8vo., (187 x 120mm), original thinly sewn yellow card wrappers, lettered in black, cover design and pictorial colour frontispiece by R. A. Davies. No. 36 of the Ariel Poems, printed at the Curwen Press, 4pp; Popular Song. London: Faber & Gwyer Limited, n.d. (1928). first edition, 8vo., (187 x 120mm), original thinly sewn yellow card wrappers, lettered in black, within ornamental border, cover design and pictorial colour frontispiece by Edward Bawden No. 15 of the Ariel Poems, printed at the Curwen Press, 4pp; Poetry & Criticism. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 140mm), publisher's pale blue card wrappers, cover design by Vanessa Bell half-title, The Hogarth Essays (First Series), No. XI, printed Neill & Co. Ltd, Edinburgh, 28pp. ; Epithalamium by Edith Sitwell, Christmas 1931. Gerald Duckworth & Co, Ltd. first edition, Limited edition of 100 copies signed, and specially bound, 8vo., (222 x 157mm), original pink cloth, (within glassine wrapper), gilt lettering to front, patterned e/ps., half-title, signed by the author in black ink, with 'No.' crossed out on the limitation page and marked in Edith's hand, 'Presentation', set in Caslon Old Face by The Westminster Press, London, and printed by them on English hand made paper, published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 8pp. unnumbered.; The Augustan Books of Modern Poetry: Edith Sitwell. Ernest Benn, 1926. first edition, 8vo., (220 x 140mm), original cream, stapled paper wrappers, lettered in black within border, 5-29 text, [30] Bibliography, [31] blank, [32] advertisements; with a duplicate copy; Gold Coast Customs. London: Duckworth, 1929. first edition, 8vo., (190 x 125mm), original black cloth, lettered in orange to front and spine, dustwrapper unclipped, portrait frontispiece of Edith Sitwell after Pavel Tchelitchew printed at the Burleigh Press, Bristol, 64pp., NPG. tissue wrapping with printed label. National Portrait Gallery Exhibition. The Sitwells: 14/10/94 - 22/1/95. Catalogue No. d26 / 4.16; The Shadow of Cain. John Lehmann, London, 1947. first edition, original green paper boards, lettered in black to front, dustwrapper clipped, half-title, printed at the Caxton Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, 18pp.+ 2pp. Notes; A Book of Flowers. London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., 1952. first edition 8vo., original mauve cloth, mauve top, dustwrapper unclipped, dedicated to Osbert Sitwell, 314pp; The Song of the Cold. The Vanguard Press Inc., New York, 1948. first US. edition, 8vo., original black decorated cloth, blue lettering to spine, foredge untrimmed, half title, 113pp; together with HERRING, Robert. [Editor]. Life and Letters To-day Continuing the London Mercury and Bookman Edith Sitwell on Modern Poetry, Vol. 39, No. 75. Stephen Austin & Sons Ltd., November, 1943. original paper wrappers, lettered in purple, small 8vo., (183 x 125mm), contributors, Edith Sitwell, Bryher, Gln Jones, Denton Welch and others, priced 1/-, 136pp. (Qty. 12.)Provenance: The Library of Dame Edith Sitwell