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SITWELL, Edith.

Fanfare for Elizabeth.

Fanfare for Elizabeth.

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Stock Code 106014

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1946

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First edition - with dustjacket by Jack Matthew. First edition of Edith Sitwell's Fanfare for Elizabeth; a striking account of love, betrayal, and religion as it unfolds in the court of King Henry VIII. The youthful hardships of Elizabeth are played out against the backdrop of the great drama of Henry's struggles with the Pope, and his six wives.

First edition, first impression; 8vo, (22.5 x 14.7 cm); 4 black-and-white illustrations (including frontispiece), half-title, scattered light foxing; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, unclipped pictorial dustjacket designed by Jack Matthew, some wear and losses to dustjacket, overall a good copy; [vii], 202pp.

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