£325
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 605
Auction: 17 June 2020 at 11:00 BST
London: Duckworth, 1929. First edition, [one of 1500 copies], 8vo, portrait frontispiece with Sitwell's signature beneath, presentation copy to Fytton Armstrong [the poet John Gawsworth], dated March 1930, with on the free endpapers, covering both sides, Edith Sitwell's holograph manuscript, signed, 26 lines, headed "the ending of Gold Coast Customs", these final lines not printed until in The Collected Poems of 1930 [June], also with holograph note on p. 28, original black cloth lettered in red, cloth upper cover slightly faded/marked, very slight wear at spine ends