Gold Coast Customs

Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929.

Price: $40.00

Hardcover. First American edition. Golden papercovered boards with black cloth spine and paper spine label. Book store label on rear pastedown, edges rubbed and lightly age-toned, spine label darkened, very good lacking the scarce dust jacket. Poetry.

Item #538925

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Item #538925 Gold Coast Customs. Edith SITWELL.

Edith Sitwell
birth name: Edith Sitwell
born: 9/7/1887
died: 12/9/1964

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Biography

English poet who first gained fame for her stylistic artifices but who emerged during World War II as a poet of emotional depth and profoundly human concerns. She was equally famed for her formidable personality, Elizabethan dress, and eccentric opinions. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
She was the older sister of authors Osbert Sitwell and Sacheverell Sitwell.more