Those Were the Days. Panorama with Figures.
by SITWELL, Osbert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Holt, Norfolk, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Macmillan 1938, 1938. Presentation copy: 'For Reginald A. Add?-Scott, I sign this book with pleasure; Osbert Sitwell Aug 31 1944.' Loosely inserted ALS from Osbert Sitwell to Mr Avia? consisting of approximately 55 words and written on notepaper headed 2, Carlyle Square, S.W.3. and dated June 24 in which he expresses his pleasure at receiving the recipient's letter and his crossness at having to turn down an invitation. He suggests possible alternative times to meet. First edition. 8vo. pp. viii, 544. Original turquoise cloth, blue and gilt panels blocked on spine, lettered in blue and gilt. Unclipped cream pictorial dust-jacket by John Farleigh, lettered in black, cream, pink and blue. Torn at head of spine with loss, lower cover foxed, old sellotape marks to flaps.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Voewood Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1631
- Title
- Those Were the Days. Panorama with Figures.
- Author
- SITWELL, Osbert
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Macmillan 1938
- Date Published
- 1938
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Voewood Rare Books
Biblio member since 2018
Holt, Norfolk
About Voewood Rare Books
Simon Finch has been a Rare Book Dealer since 1980. He has had shops in Notting Hill Gate, Mayfair and Holt, Norfolk. His firm has handled a wide variety of material from the First Folio of Shakespeare to the wilder shores of the counterculture and everything in between. In 1998, Simon bought Voewood, one of the finest Arts and Crafts and houses and brought it back to life with an eight-year programme of renovation and restoration. Voewood Rare Books, which operates from Voewood, is the continuation for Simon of a long career in the book trade. It also represents an important link with the House. Voewood is always beautiful, surprising, mysterious and perhaps a little disorientating and we aim to bring something of this spirit to the bookshop. Whilst our focus in on the visual arts, literature and the counter-culture, we deal also in a broad range of antiquarian and modern rare books across all subject areas. Our collection can be found here at Biblio and on our website. We are open by appointment and can always be contacted by email.
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Foxed
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- First Edition
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