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On the Continent. A Book of Inquilinics.

Being the third volume of England Reclaimed.

Stock Code 106115

London, Macmillan & Co. Ltd., 1958

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Presentation copy. Shakily inscribed by the author to his brother and sister-in-law, and dated in blue ink to half-title, 'For / dearest Sachie and Georgia / with best love / from Osbert / March.7.1958'.

This is the third and final volume of the 'England Reclaimed' trilogy, which Sitwell began in 1927. On the Continent is a series of portraits in verse of an English colony on the Continent, and of the way in which the individuals who composed it thought and acted, as seen through English eyes.

First edition, inscribed by the author to Sacheverell and Georgia Sitwell; 8vo, (22.1 x 14.5 cm); half-title, endpapers slightly browned, text clean and bright; publisher's smooth orange buckram, gilt lettering to spine, black topstain, unclipped pictorial dustjacket lightly marked, otherwise a very good copy; [xiv], 109pp, [1, printer's imprint].

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Provenance: Sir Sacheverell & Georgia, Lady Sitwell (presentation inscription).

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On the Continent. A Book of Inquilinics.

SITWELL, Osbert.

Stock code: 106115

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