Before the Bombardment.
Stock Code 106120
London, Duckworth, 1926
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First edition of Osbert Sitwell's first novel. First edition of Osbert Sitwell's first novel, complete with the dustjacket. Set in an out-of-season seaside hotel, it studies social and psychological change when a world of obsolete values comes under the bombardment of a new and harsher era.
First edition, first impression; 8vo, (19.2 x 14.5 cm); half-title, scattered light foxing, National Portrait Gallery label loosely inserted; publisher's smooth orange cloth, blue lettering to spine, blue topstain, unclipped dustjacket, dustjacket slightly marked, clean edge tears and edge nicks, top right-hand corner torn (with loss), otherwise a very good copy; 320pp.
First edition, first impression; 8vo, (19.2 x 14.5 cm); half-title, scattered light foxing, National Portrait Gallery label loosely inserted; publisher's smooth orange cloth, blue lettering to spine, blue topstain, unclipped dustjacket, dustjacket slightly marked, clean edge tears and edge nicks, top right-hand corner torn (with loss), otherwise a very good copy; 320pp.
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