Ɵ ART BALLET AND RELATED: includes a signed programme, exhibition catalogues, a photograph, and a TLS. to Sacheverell Sitwell. comprises: HASKELL, Arnold L. (1903 - 1980). Baron at the Ballet, Presentation copy to Sacheverell Sitwell from Mark Bonham Carter, Collins Publishers, London, 1950. publisher's red gilt cloth, dustwrapper unclipped, Foreward by Sacheverell Sitwell, Preface by Baron, 222pp., with a loosely inserted typescript letter, signed, 1pp, 6 lines, written to Sacheverell Sitwell, Weston Hall, Towcester, Northamptonshire, from Mark Bonham Carter, Collins Publisher's St. James's Place London, dated 28 November, 1950, 'Dear Mr.Sitwell, I enclose a copy of BARON / AT THE BALLET to which you so kindly / wrote the foreward and I hope the / book comes up to your expectations. / Certainly we are most grateful to you for the help you gave us. / Yours sincerely, / Mark Bonham Carter'; WINDHAM, Donald / KIRSTEIN, Lincoln. [editors]. Dance Index. The Stage and Ballet Designs of Eugene Berman by Allison Delarue. Vol. V, No. 1, 1946, inscribed to Sir Osbert Sitwell from Allison Delarue. 8vo., (235 x 188mm), illustrated paper wrappers, photo. illustrated throughout, inscribed in black ink to front cover, 'For / Sir Osbert Sitwell / a token of / appreciation / Allison Delarue', 23pp; FELLOWES, Daisy. (1890 - 1962): VERTES, Marcel. (1895 - 1961). Les Dimanches de la Comtesse de Narbonne. Editions de France, Paris, 1935. first edition, limited edition of 1000, 4to., (263 x 230mm), original soft pictorial pink illustrated wrappers, edges untrimmed, ink flower illustration and inscription to half-title, 'to Emerald / with my love', in-text and full-page illustrations by Vertes, 192pp: Castello di Montegufoni, Italy, South Entrance. a sepia photograph, 26cm x 20cm, within a clear plastic sleeve, with NPG. label. National Portrait Gallery Exhibition. The Sitwells: 14/10/94 - 22/1/95. Catalogue No. a32 / 1.246; BEERBOHM, Max. (1872 - 1956). Max's Nineties. Rupert Hart-Davis, London, 1958. first edition, 4to., (293 x 228mm), publisher's original wavy, striped pink and grey paper covered boards, gilt title to burgundy buckram spine, dustwrapper unclipped, black e/ps., half-title, 10pp. Introduction by Osbert Lancaster, 46 captioned full-page monochrome plates; with CALLOWAY, Stephen. Twentieth-Century Decoration. The Domestic Interior from 1900 to the Present Day. Weidenfeld & Nicholson, London, 1988. first edition, green cloth, dustwrapper unclipped, 215 colour illustrations, 310 b/w. illustrations, 407pp., within white card slipcase; BEATON, Cecil. Photobiography by Beaton, Odhams Press Limited, London, 1951; MACINNES, Colin. Nolan, Thames and Hudson, London, 1961; 'HIS MASTERS VOICE', Catalogue, August 1920. 8vo., photo. illustrated green and white paper wrappers, 16pp. together with seven exhibition catalogues, 1931-1994. (Qty 17). Provenance: The Art Library of Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, Weston Hall.

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES INCLUDE- Henri Matisse, Expostion organisee au profit de L'Orphelinat des Arts, Galeries George Petit, Paris, 16 juin - 25 juillet, 1931, 4to., (290 x 230mm), cream card wrappers, cream dustwrapper with raised blue lettering to front, edges untrimmed, 24 full-page b/w. photo. reproductions, 8pp. adverts at end, catalogue lists 142 works; Tchelitchew. The Gallery of Modern Art, New York, 20 March 1963 - 19 April, 1964. catalogue lists 322 works, 69pp.; John Piper. The Tate Gallery, London, 30 November 1983 - 22 January, 1984. catalogue lists 171 works, 152pp.; John Piper The Sitwell's Montegufoni, The Maclean Gallery, London, 28 January - 20 February, 1981. some prices marked in blue ink manuscript beside the catalogue entries of 4 works, with a price list loosely inserted, catalogue lists 14 works, 20pp., NPG. tissue wrapping and label; Gwen John, An Interior Life, Phaidon Press and Barbican Art Gallery, 1984-85. catalogue lists 126 works; Rex Whistler's War 1939-July 1944, Artist into Tank Commander, National Army Museum, 1994. catalogue lists 149 works; T.E. Lawrence. Lawrence of Arabia. National Portrait Gallery, London, 1988-1989. catalogue lists 363 works; C/R: Les Dimanches de la Comtesse de Narbonne. Editions de France - covers marked and creased, torn to lower spine, foxing to untrimmed edges and throughout.Max's Nineties - a few light marks to dustwrapper, o/w. a clean copy.Twentieth-Century Decoration. The Domestic Interior from 1900 to the Present Day - a clean copy, the slipcase marked with a few stains. Henri Matisse, Expostion - front board present but detaching, foxing to dustwrapper and untrimmed edges affecting leaf edges, and further foxing throughout.