[Rarebooks] FS: Edith Sitwell SIGNED MANUSCRIPT POEM

[Charles Agvent]

SITWELL, Edith. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS): "A Young Girl's Song" 
n.p., n.d.. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED (AMS) on both sides of yellow 
lined legal paper of a poem of 34 lines titled "A Young Girl's Song." In 
part: "The King of Nowhere said to me--/Nodding his wintery crown/that 
seemed an ass's crown of ears/Or a broken town---/'Young girl, your love 
begs 'Give to me/your body, for your soul/Is only an illusion! 
But,'/Said the winter air/(The aged King of Nowhere)/'You must lay your 
body by,/As other women may lay bare/Their bodies to the foolish 
air/That they call 'Love'; Nowhere, alone,/Shall then be Lovers' Town." 
Creases, otherwise Near Fine. (#019403)        $900

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