first US edition - with dustjacket

A clean and bright copy of the first US edition of one of Sitwell's major books of poetry, The Canticle of the Rose. Poems 1917-1949.

First US edition, first impression; 8vo; (24 x 16.5 cm); half-title, pastedowns slightly browned, otherwise internally clean; publisher's black cloth, author's blindstamped signature to front, gilt lettering to spine with rose device, unclipped pictorial dust-jacket, dust-jacket slightly worn and marked, otherwise a very good copy; [xxxviii], 290pp.