Three-Quarter Length Portrait of Michael Arlen By Osbert Sitwell. With a preface The History of a Portrait by the Author.

Sitwell, Osbert.

Verlag: London: William Heinemann Limited New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co. Inc. Printed and bound in Great Britain at The Windmill Press Kingswood Surrey. Number 334 of 520 numbered & signed copies.

Beschreibung

[Colophon:] "This edition is limited to five hundred and twenty copies, of which two hundred and fifty are for sale in Great Britain and Ireland, two hundred and fifty are for sale in the United States of America, and twenty are for presentation. This is No. 334 [signed] Osbert Sitwell". 8" x 10 1/2", [18] unnumbered, printed pages; finely printed on laid paper with a large, modern-style woodcut initial A, printed in red. Blue cloth spine with titling gilt vertically on spine, and boards covered in a marbled-design cloth, top edge gilt. Title-printed, light gray-green dustjacket (which appears much lighter in color in the scan), this dj. shows age-related tanning to margins & edges, 3" section missing at upper spine area of dj., with a 4" section of creasing & tears to the dj. paper in upper left (spine) corner area of back dj. panel. This dj. is made of a rather fragile type of paper, and few of them now survive. Book shows light, age-related tanning to paste-downs, endpapers, else, a fine copy in the scarce dj. (archival conservation is recommended for this dustjacket). Scan shows the spine & front panel of the dustjacket (in a much lighter color). Scarce book. "[-]When, last year, my new book of poems was being printed -- a group of portraits of an old friend of mine, which was entitled 'Miss Mew' and issued in a limited edition by the Mill House Press -- at the end of it I caused to be inserted the following notice: 'Portrait Poems' Important Notice Do You Want To Interest Posterity? Mr. Osbert Sitwell has much pleasure in announcing that he is now willing to accept commissions from clients who wish to have their likenesses executed." (From the Preface, p. [9]). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-201397833

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Three-Quarter Length Portrait of Michael ...

Verlag: London: William Heinemann Limited New York: Doubleday, Doran and Co. Inc. Printed and bound in Great Britain at The Windmill Press Kingswood Surrey. Number 334 of 520 numbered & signed copies.

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage