AUDEN, W.H.; ELIZABETH BISHOP; ROBERT LOWELL; EDITH SITWELL; AND STEVIE SMITH | A Group of 20th Century First Editions

The Property of a Gentleman

AUDEN, W.H.; ELIZABETH BISHOP; ROBERT LOWELL; EDITH SITWELL; AND STEVIE SMITH 

A Group of 20th Century First Editions 

Auden, W.H. Another Time. London: Faber and Faber, 1940. 8vo. Half-title. Red cloth covered boards, spine gilt lettered, original orange jacket printed in black, original review copy slip laid in; nick to foot of spine panel. In custom buff linen clamshell case. First British edition, a fine copy — Bishop, Elizabeth. Geography III. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1976. 8vo. Half-title, vignette to title-page. Brown cloth covered boards, spine gilt lettered, original tan jacket, lettered and pictorially printed in black, ruled in blue; price ticket to jacket. First edition — Lowell, Robert. Lord Weary’s Castle. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1946. 8vo. Half-title, vignette to title-page. Black cloth covered boards, spine gilt lettered, original black and white jacket printed in yellow and red; jacket prince-clipped, minor wear to head of jacket spine panel. First edition — Sitwell, Edith. Facade. Kensington: Favil Press, 1922. 8vo. Half-title, frontispiece by Gino Severini, numbered and signed by Sitwell on the limitation page, publisher's advertisements at end. Printed brick-patterned boards, paper label to upper board; spine sunned with some minor loss. In custom quarter peach silk over marbled board clamshell case. First edition, one of 150 copies, with Sitwell adding the title "Hornpipe" in brackets to the poem beginning "Sailors come" — Smith, Stevie. Not Waving but Drowning. London: Andre Deutsch, 1957. Royal 8vo. Half-title, in-text illustrations by the author. Sage paper covers boards, upper cover pictorially printed in red, spine lettered in black, original sage jacket with cover design repeated in red; some fading to jacket, closed tear to upper fold of spine panel. First edition — Smith, Stevie. Selected Poems. London: Longmans, 1962. 8vo. Half-title, in-text illustrations by the author; minor toning. Original blue paper covered boards, spine gilt lettered, original blue and white jacket, cover lettered in white and pictorially printed in black; minor toning and soiling to lower cover of jacket. First edition

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