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Wheels: an Anthology of Verse. [First-Sixth Cycle].

Wheels: an Anthology of Verse. [First-Sixth Cycle]. [Complete in 6 volumes.]

Publication details: Oxford and London: B.H. Blackwell, Leonard Parsons, and C.W. Daniel, 1916-1921,

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A vehicle for the Sitwells and their assembled troupe, featuring early work by a handful of significant authors. Contributors include Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, Nancy Cunard, Sherard Vines, Aldous Huxley, Iris Tree, and Wilfred Owen. The 1919 volume was the last to be published by Blackwell and carries a striking Vorticist cover and endpaper illustration by William Roberts. Both the design and the literary content throughout are of their era, and the first four volumes contain much war poetry.

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FIRST EDITIONS, title-page Wheel design to first four volumes, the second volume with some faint spots to prelims, pp. 84; 118, [2, ads]; 104; 103; 123, [2], 16 [ads]; 62, [1], crown 8vo, original quarter cloth and illustrated boards, the fourth and sixth with designs by William Roberts (the former with his endpaper designs also), others by Gino Severini, Laurence Atkinson, C.W. Beaumont, backstrip to first volume printed in black and with paper residue from former shelf-label, the rest with printed labels (browned and chipped) excepting the second volume which is blank, some fading to cloth, light soiling to boards with wear at edges, lower board of third and sixth volume with a little waterstaining at foot, top edges dusty, others untrimmed, first volume with library pocket and ink shelfmark to front pastedown, both pastedowns of this volume with bookseller tickets (Blackwell's and Foyle's respectively) and the flyleaf with the ownership inscription of 'Tatton Bower' (possibly Robert Tatton Bower, later Tory MP), second volume with spotting to endpapers, endpaper designs to third, fourth, and fifth vols, good condition overall

Bibliography: (Fifoot EB1,2,4,5,7,8; OC2,5,19,33,40,60; SC1,2,5,7,9,12)

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