1st Edition 1931. Signed and inscribed by the author on the front endpaper ‘For, my dear Mrs Ethel Rootham with best wishes from Edith Sitwell’ on the verso of the end paper it has at the top ‘J.L.G. from E.L.R. 1936’,this is John Linton Gardner from Mrs Rootham, this is John Gardner the composer and the book is from his library. Sitwell's closest emotional bond was with another woman, Helen Rootham. In 1903, Rootham, an aspiring poet who translated the works of Arthur Rimbaud into English, was engaged as Edith’s governess. In1913, the two women left the Sitwell family home and set up lodgings in a small, shabby flat in Pembridge Mansions, Bayswater. Ethel Rootham was Helen’s sister. Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Small corner bump. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Light edge rubbing.