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The Sitwells: a Family's Biography - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
by Pearson, John
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151827036
- ISBN 13
- 9780151827039
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About This Item
New York And London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. First US Edition; First Printing. Cloth spine. 0151827036 . A Nearly Fine first American Edition/First Printing in a like dust-jacket, each somewhat shelfworn; This book is the biography of the Sitwells, a family of artists and writers, who lived in England from the late 1800s to the early 2000s. The Sitwells were a famous and influential family, and their descendants continue to be active in the arts. This book tells the story of the Sitwells' lives and their works, and it includes interviews with members of the family.; 8vo; 534 pages .
Synopsis
John Pearson has sympathetically portrayed the often turbulent private lives of this remarkable English family of poets, memoirists, critics, and patrons, and has evaluated their literary output, in a book that is as entertaining as it is knowledgeable. Index; illustrations.
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- Books Tell You Why, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 57442
- Title
- The Sitwells: a Family's Biography - 1st US Edition/1st Printing
- Author
- Pearson, John
- Format/Binding
- Cloth spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First US Edition; First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0151827036
- ISBN 13
- 9780151827039
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York And London
- Date Published
- 1979
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