By Osbert Sitwell
London   Macmillan and Co Ltd
8.5" by 5.5" x, 281, [1]pp
A smart early printing of this popular travel work across Europe, Asia, Africa and America, with illustrations throughout.
By Osbert Sitwell

1954 The Four Continents Being More Discursions on Travel, Art and Life

London   Macmillan and Co Ltd
8.5" by 5.5" x, 281, [1]pp
A smart early printing of this popular travel work across Europe, Asia, Africa and America, with illustrations throughout.
£35.00
: 0.5kgs / : 913Y7

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Early Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

An early printing of this work, published the month after the first edition.

In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. 

Illustrated throughout, including a frontispiece and twenty-three photographic plates. Collated complete. 

Osbert Sitwell brilliantly summarises his forty years of travel across four continents within this work, with much of it relating to the years since the end of the Second World War. 

Sitwell was a popular English writer who also produced novels of a variety of genres.

Condition

In the original cloth binding. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, with light sunning to the spine and shelf wear. Light marks to the boards. Dust wrapper is edge worn, with a closed tear to the front hinge and slight chipping to the spine. Handling marks and a few spots to the wrap. Internally, firmly bound with bright and generally clean pages. Offsetting to the endpapers.

Very Good

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