Before the Bombardment.
by SITWELL, Osbert
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, Duckworth, 1926. . First edition, first impression; 8vo, (19.2 x 14.5 cm); half-title, scattered light foxing, National Portrait Gallery label loosely inserted; publisher's smooth orange cloth, blue lettering to spine, blue topstain, unclipped dustjacket, dustjacket slightly marked, clean edge tears and edge nicks, top right-hand corner torn (with loss), otherwise a very good copy; 320pp.
First edition of Osbert Sitwell's first novel, complete with the dustjacket. Set in an out-of-season seaside hotel, it studies social and psychological change when a world of obsolete values comes under the bombardment of a new and harsher era.
First edition of Osbert Sitwell's first novel, complete with the dustjacket. Set in an out-of-season seaside hotel, it studies social and psychological change when a world of obsolete values comes under the bombardment of a new and harsher era.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 106120
- Title
- Before the Bombardment.
- Author
- SITWELL, Osbert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, Duckworth, 1926.
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