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    By Osbert Sitwell
    London   Macmillan; Hutchinson; Gerald Duckworth
    9" by 5.5" viii, 544; 70; viii, 128; vii, 188; xvi, 93; xviii, 540; xiv, 108; xxi, 230; 206pp
    A pleasing selection of plays, short stories and essays from Osbert Sitwell, the majority of which are first impressions.
    By Osbert Sitwell

    1938-1963 Those Were the Days: Panorama with Figures; A Place of One’s Own; Gentle Caesar: A Play in Three Acts; Sing High! Sing Low!; Wrack at Tidesend: A Book of Balnearics; Collected Stories; On the Continent: A Book of Inquilinics; Fee Fi Fo Fum! A Book of Fairy Stories; Tales My Father Taught Me

    London   Macmillan; Hutchinson; Gerald Duckworth
    9" by 5.5" viii, 544; 70; viii, 128; vii, 188; xvi, 93; xviii, 540; xiv, 108; xxi, 230; 206pp
    A pleasing selection of plays, short stories and essays from Osbert Sitwell, the majority of which are first impressions.
    £160.00
    : 10kgs / : 955Y28
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    Description

    First Edition, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

    Offering a set of nine works from English writer Osbert Sitwell, varying from his plays and short stories, to his essays and reminiscences. 

    All first editions, first impressions with the exception of 'Those Were the Days' (second impression, published two months after the first) and 'Tales My Father Taught Me' (fifth impression). 

    With the publisher's original dust wrappers, all unclipped except for 'Tales My Father Taught Me'.

    The entirety of this set comprises the following works:

    Those Were the Days: Panorama with Figures (1938) 
    A Place of One's Own (1941) - Very scarce to find with the dust wrapper 
    Gentle Caesar: A Play in Three Acts (1942) 
    Sing High! Sing Low! (1944) 
    Wrack at Tidesend: A Book of Balnearics (being the second volume of 'England Reclaimed') (1952) 
    Collected Stories (1953) 
    On the Continent: A Book of Inquilinics (being the third volume of 'England Reclaimed') (1958) 
    Fee Fi Fo Fum! A Book of Fairy Stories (1959) 
    Tales My Father Taught Me (1963)

    Condition

    In the publisher's original cloth bindings. With the publisher's original dust wrappers, all unclipped except for 'Tales My Father Taught Me'. Externally, very smart, with minor fading to the spines of 'Wrack at Tidesend' and minimal shelf wear across the set. Dust wrappers are smart. With sunning to the spines and general edge wear. With chipping to the spine head of 'Those Were the Days' and to the front wrap of 'A Place of One's Own'. With instances of scattered spots or handling marks across all wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright and clean, with a few spots concentrated to the endpapers.

    Near Fine

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