OSBERT SITWELL. — Collected Stories.

Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., London, 2nd Edition, A reprint, and the first Duckworth-exclusive edition (it was originally published in 1953 jointly by Duckworth and Macmillan). 8vo. xviii, 541pp. Rd cloth lettered and bordered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant purple top edge stain. A virtually fine copy in fractionally rubbed and soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A twelve-page preface by the author precedes thirty-two stories (the entirety of his short fiction output from the collections 'Triple Figure', 'Dumb Animal', and 'Death of a God')., Near Fine, Very Good