SITWELL, Osbert. England Reclaimed: A Book of Eclogues. London: Duckworth. 1927. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. A very good copy. The boards are clean and sharp with a few mild stains to the head and foot of backstrip, a few other mild marks, but the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine, in fact, but for very mild offsetting to endpapers, and light crimping to p.40, evidently a production issue, minor. The dust jacket correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine, the spine with several small stains, loss to rear panel bottom and top edge, closed tear to spine foot and up at front panel, another smaller at head, and a few other smaller closed tears, but a very presentable example overall.
A group of pastoral poems positioned as a proclamation of beauty both natural and societal, with a list of characters voiced through sharp verse, somehow familiar. The printed dedication is to his sister, Edith Sitwell, and is followed by a long and moving poem to her, direct, and full of idiosyncrasies of Edith and indeed the family as a whole. The jacket by McKnight Kauffer represents one of his earliest attempts in the medium, and note its preoccupation with natural and folkloric beauty which mirrors the work.
SITWELL, Osbert. England Reclaimed: A Book of Eclogues. London: Duckworth. 1927. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s orange cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Edward McKnight Kauffer. A very good copy. The boards are clean and sharp with a few mild stains to the head and foot of backstrip, a few other mild marks, but the binding tight and square, the contents clean and fine, in fact, but for very mild offsetting to endpapers, and light crimping to p.40, evidently a production issue, minor. The dust jacket correctly priced 7/6 net to the spine, the spine with several small stains, loss to rear panel bottom and top edge, closed tear to spine foot and up at front panel, another smaller at head, and a few other smaller closed tears, but a very presentable example overall.
A group of pastoral poems positioned as a proclamation of beauty both natural and societal, with a list of characters voiced through sharp verse, somehow familiar. The printed dedication is to his sister, Edith Sitwell, and is followed by a long and moving poem to her, direct, and full of idiosyncrasies of Edith and indeed the family as a whole. The jacket by McKnight Kauffer represents one of his earliest attempts in the medium, and note its preoccupation with natural and folkloric beauty which mirrors the work.
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