Dance of the Quick and the Dead. An Entertainment of the Imagination

Sacheverell Sitwell. Dust jacket design and title-page by Barnett Freedman.

Faber and Faber Limited. London. 1936. First edition. Hardback, octavo; green cloth-bound boards, t.e.g., dust jacket. xvi, 413 pages. 15 hors-texte collotype plates and sevearl b&w illustrations in text. English. 225 x 155mm. 0.7kg. . Very good, in near fine dust jacket; slightest wear to forecorners and head of spine, light browning to spine, not price-clipped; light wear and toning to boards, some light spotting to endpapers and edges.

A collection of musings and thoughts on art and society from the pen of Sacheverell Sitwell. In his journey from the Present, through Paradise and Purgatory, to Inferno, Sitwell touches on Breughel, Gin and Slum, Dali, Stravinsky, Pierrots on the sands, Death masks,  Spangled prints, Bosch, and so much more. With a striking dust jacket design by Barnett Freedman, who also supplies an illustration to the title-page.