Truffle Hunt [Association Copy]

Sacheverell Sitwell. Dust jacket design by Irene Hawkins.

Robert Hale Limited. London. 1953. First edition. Hardback, octavo; blue cloth-bound boards, dust jacket. x, 310 pages. B&w hors texte plates. English. 220 x 150mm. 0.6kg. . Very good, in good dust jacket; light spotting to pages, small sticker to front endpaper; wear to dust jacket, abrasions to front panel with some loss to image, spine lightly faded, neat tissue repairs to verso, not price-clipped; ownership signature of Julian Vinogradoff and note 'see p.69' to front endpaper.

A pot-pourri of short essays on everything from 'Wagner in the Bath' to 'Famous Clowns', from 'Henry Moore' to 'Mrs. Ada Leverson', from 'Yellow Camellia' to 'Pas de Deux from Don Quixote'. Many were taken from Sitwell's column for The Sunday Times.
 
Provenance: From the library of Julian Vinogradoff, with her ownership signature. Vinogradoff was the daughter of society patron and hostess Ottoline Morrell. A note 'See p.69' refers to Sitwell's short essay on Morrell. Later part of the library of Weston Hall, home of Sacheverell, 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 (f70/Cat 6.51l), with the exhibition tissue wrapping with label included.