1981 "First Edition" stated; Alfred A. Knopf publishers, New York; hardbound in wheat boards with gilt design and lettering on cover and spine; quite good condition; wonderful glossy black and white and color photos throughout; came with an envelope and short letter - which states "LETTER FROM EDITH SITWELL??" on envelope and is signed by "Edie"; dust jacket has minor tears along edge (see pics).
 
Description -
Not until her twenties was the real Edith Sitwell born. Freed from her unhappy home life she set up home in a shabby London flat: she became almost overnight one of the best-known 1920s pioneering poets. Her Plantagenet good looks attracted the photographer Cecil Beaton and the principal painters of the day. She befriended Aldous Huxley, T.S. Eliot, and Gertrude Stein. She rebuffed Wyndham Lewis and ardently loved the temperamental Russian painter, Pavel Tchelitchew.
 
The thirties she spent in penury, writing her novels, poems and biographies and it was only when Yeats hailed her as a major poet that her work reached a wider audience and she set off to conquer New York and Hollywood. In this vivid and sympathetic portrayal, drawing on Ediths brilliantly funny and often outrageous letters, Victoria Glendinning shows the spontaneous, gallant, yet tragically insecure woman behind the public image.