SIR SACHEVERELL SITWELL - BOOK PAGE SIGNED - HFSID 18658
Price: $160.00
SIR SACHEVERELL SITWELL
Page from a limited edition book of poems and songs, signed and numbered in black ink
Book Page Signed: "Sacheverell Sitwell" and numbered "42". Pencil notations on verso in
unknown hand. 1 page, 7x9½. This page is from an unidentified limited edition book, with a
total run of 275 copies, containing two poems and ten songs by Sitwell. British author and
poet Sitwell (1897-1988) had the fortune - or possibly misfortune - to be the younger
brother of poets Edith and Osbert Sitwell. Although he involved himself heavily in their
projects, he also received a lot of splash criticism from those who disliked his flamboyant sister
Edith. Sacheverell, who became 6th Baronet of Renishaw Hall after Osbert's death in 1969,
was an noted art and architecture critic and travel writer, who wrote numerous books and
articles on these subjects. He alsowrote poetic prose (All Summer in a Day, 1926; Dance of
the Quick and the Dead, 1936; Splendours and Mysteries, 1943; The Hunters and the
Hunted, 1948) and poetry. Constant Lambert set one of his poems, The Rio Grande, to
music in 1929. Lightly toned, soiled and creased. Neatly torn from book at left edge.
Otherwise, fine condition.
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