The Collected Poems

8vo., black cloth printed in gilt to spine; together in the unclipped blue and black printed dustwrapper (8/6 net to front flap); pp. [vi], vii-x, [i], 2-278; with errata slip to p. [v] as called for; a very good example, with light bumping to corners and spine tips; very occasional light finger marks and pencil annotations; endpapers lightly browned and offset, with previous owner’s name in black ink to ffep; wrapper with some rubbing along folds and edges, and some nicking/chipping to ends of folds and spine; unrestored. 

First edition. 

An extensive poetry collection, edited by Sitwell with her own revisions, which brings together much of her work penned between the years of 1915 and 1930. “They are all that I care to preserve”, she writes in her introduction. Containing ‘Aubade’, a surrealist poem written from the perspective of her character, Jane, and ‘Façade’, which was originally intended to be recited through a megaphone over musical accompaniment by William Walton.   

SKU: 1800193