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Music and Ceremonies. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
by SITWELL Edith
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
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About This Item
The Vanguard Press, New York,, [1963]. 8vo., First Edition, US Issue, on laid paper; original decorative boards, blocked in gilt and blind, gilt back, a near fine copy in the dustwrapper. A SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY FROM THE AUTHOR WITH HER HOLOGRAPH INSCRIPTION ON BLANK PRELIMINARY. The US issue of 'The Outcasts', published in the UK the previous year (? see note below). This edition collects three additional poems - 'March Past', 'Two Raw Songs of Jack Straw' and 'Music and Ceremonies' - not present in the UK edition. Fifoot, EA51b giving the date of publication as 1962. However, the reverse of the title includes a copyright attribution dated 1963.
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- Bookseller
- Island Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1620
- Title
- Music and Ceremonies. SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY
- Author
- SITWELL Edith
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Vanguard Press, New York,
- Date Published
- [1963]
- Keywords
- modern firsts, edith sitwell, modern first editions, music, ceremonies
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- Gilt
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