“Miss Ellen and Miss Harriet, the ondines,/Bore baskets full of velvet nectarines”

Sitwell’s poem “Elegy on Dead Fashion” in a limited edition book illustrated by Thomas Lowinsky and signed by the author. Striking embossed pink flower print dust jacket.

London: Duckworth, 1926. Hardcover. 22 pages. 25 x 16.5cm. Bright yellow boards in dust jacket with small loss and age toning at the edge, two small tape reinforcements by previous owner to reverse of dust jacket. Bookseller’s label to front endpaper for Lupton Bros. Signed, limited edition of 225 copies of which this is number 176. Printed by the Westminster Press. Book and dust jacket in very good condition.

£260