Wrack at Tidesend: A Book of Balnearics.

£325 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books · No longer available

presentation copy Inscribed by the author and dated in blue ink to front free endpaper, 'For / darling Sachie and Georgia / with love / from Osbert / May.5.1952'. Containing over eighty poems, this is the second volume of the 'England Reclaimed' trilogy, which Sitwell began in 1927. Only 3000 copies were printed. First edition, first impression, author's presentation copy to Sacheverell and Georgia Sitwell; 8vo (22.3 x 15 cm); very light spotting to prelims, internally clean; publisher's smooth orange buckram, gilt lettering to black panel on spine, black topstain, unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, light marks and edge nicks to dust-jacket, overall a bright, clean copy; [xvi], 94pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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