Sitwell (Edith) The Canticle of the Rose.
£395
Selected Poems 1920 – 1947
London, Macmillan, 1949.
First edition, first impression. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
“For my darling Evelyn with best love from Edith”, possibly Evelyn Waugh with whom she was well acquainted (she asked him to be her godfather when she converted to Catholicism in 1955); it could however also be her close friend Evelyn Wiel, with whom she stayed in France prior to the Second World War.
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Jacket rather rubbed and spotted, sticker mark near foot of spine, otherwise very good.
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