Facade by Sitwell, Edith; Walton, William (music) - 1949

COLUMBIA, 1976-01-01. Paperback. Good. 0x0x0. Columbia Records LP in original sleeve. Album is in good shape. Shelf wear to sleeve. Priority and international shipping NOT available on this item.

London, Oxford University Press, no date. 8vo. 111 pp. Sewn as issued. Full score.

(London: Oxford University Press: 1972) First Edition. Quarter cloth pictorial boards (that is, hard covers) pp. 40, 111 (311 x 237 mm). Illustrated by John Piper. Loosely included is the re-pressed 7 inch disc of the original recording of 1929. An about fine copy WITHOUT the slipcase.

The Institute of Contemporary Arts in Washington, 1957. Softcover. Very Good. Twenty poems with a list of the committee, benefactors, sponsors, and patrons in rear. Octavo. [24pp.] Pictorial black and white wrappers, stapled. Pages and wrapper lightly age-toned, modest edgewear, a very good copy. A Benefit performance presented under the Auspices of The British Ambassador & Lady Caccia in the Atrium of The Corcoran Gallery published on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of The Institute of Contemporary Arts in Washington. Scarce.

Oxford University Press 1972. IN SLIPCASE WITH VINYL RECORD INSERTED, UNSIGNED EDITION, NUMBERED (#499 of 1000) quarto, illus heavy boards with black cloth spine, teg, illus eps & prelims, frontispiece, xxxix + 111pp, VG+ (in plastic wrap, light scuffing to extrems, light foxing to page edges & eps/prelims/terminals) in slipcase, VG (sl scuffing to extems, light chafing & soiling to boards)

London: Oxford University Press, 1972. Leather. Fine. 13" by 10". Roger Davies. A fine signed limited edition copy of this influential poem put to music by William Walter, with a 7 inch record of Edith Sitwell reading the poem to music in 1929. A limited edition work, limited to one thousand numbered copies for sale, of which the first two hundred and fifty were specially bound and signed by the composer. This copy is numbered one-hundred and ninety-five. Signed by the composer to the edition page. 7-inch record of the 1929 recording of 'Facade' is present to the pocket to the box. In the original cloth presentation box. Presentation box is in a very good indeed condition. Facade' is a charming poem by Edith Sitwell, here put to music by William Walter. 'Facade' is a series of poems, recited over an instrumental accompaniment. The poem 'Facade' received a glowing review by Siegfried Sassoon. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and one colour plate. Edith Sitwell was the… Read More