presentation copy to her governess and companion Helen Rootham
SITWELL, Edith.
Clowns' Houses.
Oxford, B.H. Blackwell, 1918.
Helen Rootham (1875-1938) was Sitwell's closest companion for many years. Engaged as her governess in 1903, Rootham was an aspiring poet, and translator of Rimbaud. She and Edith Sitwell set up home in Pembridge Mansions in 1914, moving to Paris when Rootham became terminally ill with cancer in 1932.
First edition, inscribed by the author to Helen Rootham; 8vo; engraved initials and publisher's device at end; publisher's stiff patterned wrappers, paper label to upper cover, partial label to spine, first four leaves unopened, NPG tissue wrapper with label, overall a near-fine copy.
Stock code 105421
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Clowns' Houses.
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Orlando: A Biography.
1928.
A signed, limited edition copy of Orlando by Virginia Woolf, Nigel Nicholson, Vita Sackville-West's son, declared Orlando to be 'the longest love letter in literature', 1928
£6,500.00
WOOLF, Virginia; STRACHEY, Lytton.
Virginia Woolf & Lytton Strachey Letters.
1956.
A handsome first edition of Virginia Woolf anf Lytton Strachey Letters, Edited by Leonard Woolf and James Strachey.
£225.00
PLATH, Sylvia.
Two Uncollected Poems.
1980.
A limited edition copy of The Uncollected Poems by Sylvia Plath.
£325.00
