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Olympic Marketing Corp, December 1912. Mass Market PaperBack . Fair.

Macmillan, 1946-12-01. hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). Please note this copy does NOT include a jacket. Previous owner's ink inscription. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Macmillan, 1949. hardcover. Good/Good Jacket. 19 to 25 cm tall, Octavo, (8vo). 1949 reprint. Posted within 1 working day. 1st class tracked post to the UK, Airmail tracked worldwide. Robust recyclable packaging.

Great Britain: Quartet Books. Good. 1977. Reprint. Soft Cover. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall 0704331578 Paperback Paperback. Message to previous owner to inside cover. Couple of creases to corner back. cover. Sir Osbert Sitwell, born in London in 1892, brother of Dame Edith and Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, was one of this century's most professional writers. He was the author of several novels, plays and books of travel, and published many volumes of poetry and short stories throughout his life. But perhaps his most successful work was Left Hand, Right Hand! hsi four-volume autobiography which was greeted with great critical acclaim as each volume appeared between 1945 and 1949. 319 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .

London: Macmillan & Co. LTD. Near Fine in Good dust jacket. 1950. Third Printing. Hardcover. Book would be fine but for tiny rubs at lower corners of spine. No ownership or other marks. DJ with intact price has multiple closed tears and a few small chips from edges. DJ now in mylar sleeve. Spine is somewhat darkened but still clearly legible. Laid in are a piece of folded blank stationary from Sitwell's Renishaw Hall, Derbyshire, and a label from a bottle of chianti from Sitwell's winery in Italy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 319 pages .

London: Macmillan and Co, 1946. 1st. h/b. Near fine, 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, in protective sleeve), red boards clean, gilt on black panel spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked; top edges black. Small owner's plate on front pastedown.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the book.

New York: Atlantic Monthly/Little, Brown, 1946. 1st. h/b. Very good, 1st USA edition, unclipped d/j (in protective sleeve); brown clothbound boards, gilt on blue panel spine/cover titling; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). The second volume of the author's 5-volume autobiography 'Left Hand, Right Hand.' This volume carries the author through from his eighth to his eighteenth year. Hardback in brick-red cloth with gilt spine titling, pp frontispiece, viii, 319 + 22 plates, including sixteen reproductions of John PiperÕs paintings commissioned for the book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Macmillan & Co, 1950-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 5 volume setHardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Shelfwear, minor chipping. Front gutter of Great Morning cracked and splayed. A few volumes are later printings. Price clipped. Clean, unmarked pages. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.

London, UK: Macmillan & Co, 1948. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Complete in five volumes. 1948-1950. xvi, 272pp (vol. 1), viii, 320pp (vol. 2), viii, 324pp (vol. 3), viii, 382pp (vol. 4), xii, 224pp (vol. 5) with some black and white photographic plates (inc. frontispiece), illustrative endpapers. Orange/red cloth-covered boards; gilt titles on spine, top text block edges sprayed black. 8vo. A large and very heavy set requiring an additional charge for overseas delivery. Spines and corners lightly rubbed and rounded. Light tanning to text block edges. Some light tanning to prelims. Internally very neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket spines sun-faded, with wear, chipping and <4cm closed tears at ends; covers lightly soiled, wear and chipping around edges and corners; interiors tanned, one volume has tape along the interior of the spine and another along the top and bottom edge. Dust jackets now protected in archival quality Mylar wrappers,… Read More

London: Macmillan; Hutchinson. 1945-1950. First UK editions, first printings (vol. First UK editions, first printings (vol. III in association with the Book Society). Five volumes. Contemporary half brown morocco by Bayntun-Riviere of Bath, for Henry Sotheran Ltd. Ochre buckram boards, five raised bands with gilt ruled compartments and titles in gilt to the spines. Top edge gilt. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece, illustrations and photographic plates throughout each volume. A fine set, the bindings square and firm. The contents, with a small previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume, are otherwise clean and bright throughout. All but the final volume, 'Noble Essences' was first published in the US, with the UK editions following soon afterwards. "In its scope and its performance it will surely remain as one of the main literary memorials of its time" (Edwin Muir, 'The Observer'); "Much has happened since 'Left Hand, Right Hand!' first… Read More