The Collected Poems of Edith Sitwell
First edition, limited to 320 numbered copies signed by Sitwell to the colophon, of which this is number 210. Presentation copy, additionally inscribed by Sitwell to the the poet and art collector, Isabella Gardner, niece of the American art collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner, who founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Isabella Gardner and Sitwell were close friends and Gardner, also a poet, dedicated her poem "Summers Ago" to Sitwell. An important association.
London and Boston: Gerald Duckworth & Co / Houghton Mifflin Company, 1930. Publisher's original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt, printed on handmade paper, frontispiece illustration by Pavel Tchelitchew, errata slip present; pp. x, 278. An about very good copy. Binding sturdy and square, scattered soiling to boards, minimal shelfwear, spine toned. Small bookshop label to flyleaf, offsetting/foxing to endpapers, else internally clean. Protected in a removable archival sleeve.