SITWELL, Edith. Collected Poems, London: Gerald Duckworth, 1930, 8°, FIRST EDITION, number 315 of 320 copies signed by the author, portrait frontispiece, errata slip, original yellow cloth; Collected Poems, London: Macmillan, 1957, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed: "To Leonard Russell and Dilys Powell with gratitude for endless kindnesses that I could never forget, and with best wishes from Edith Sitwell," original blue cloth, dust-jacket -- Osbert SITWELL. Left Hand Right Hand! An Autobiography, London: Macmillan, 1945-50, 5 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION, plates, some after John Piper, original salmon cloth, dust-jackets by H. Cowdell (chipped and torn at extremities with some loss). With 6 other works by or on the same authors. (13)

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SITWELL, Edith. Collected Poems, London: Gerald Duckworth, 1930, 8°, FIRST EDITION, number 315 of 320 copies signed by the author, portrait frontispiece, errata slip, original yellow cloth; Collected Poems, London: Macmillan, 1957, 8°, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, the front free endpaper inscribed: "To Leonard Russell and Dilys Powell with gratitude for endless kindnesses that I could never forget, and with best wishes from Edith Sitwell," original blue cloth, dust-jacket -- Osbert SITWELL. Left Hand Right Hand! An Autobiography, London: Macmillan, 1945-50, 5 volumes, 8°, FIRST EDITION, plates, some after John Piper, original salmon cloth, dust-jackets by H. Cowdell (chipped and torn at extremities with some loss). With 6 other works by or on the same authors. (13)

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The 4 other titles in Osbert Sitwell's autobiographical sequence are The Scarlet Tree (London, 1946), Great Morning (London, 1948), Laughter in the Next Room (London, 1949) and Nobel Essences or Courteous Revelations (London, 1950).

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