Sacheverell Sitwell. Dust jacket design by Irene Hawkins.
Macmillan & Co. London. 1952. First edition. Hardback, octavo; pink cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. vi, 317 pages. English. 220 x 150mm. 0.5kg. . Very good, in good dust jacket; pushing to forecorners and head of spine, slight dustiness to edges; light wear to jacket folds and forecorners, wear to spine ends with slight loss and short tears, spine faded and yellowed, not price-clipped.
Sacheverell Sitwell continues in the same vein as his earlier Dance of the Quick and the Dead and other subsequent works. Cupid and the Jacaranda collects together his experiences and musings on subjects such as art, sculpture, architecture, music, theatre, ballet and flowers. Irene Hawkins' dust jacket design is inspired by Sitwell's photographs of Spanish baroque churches.
Provenance: From the library of Weston Hall, home of Sacheverell Sitwell, and included in the Dreweatts 2021 sale Weston Hall and The Sitwells. A Family Legacy. The book was previously exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery 1994 exhibition The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 30s (f35/Cat 6.23), with the exhibition tissue wrapping with label included.
[Further reading: National Portrait Gallery, 'The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s', 1994, no. 6.23]
