Sitwell (Edith) Facade, first edition, one of 150 copies signed by the author, autograph correction in the author's hand to p.22, colour frontispiece by B. Severini, original red brick-patterned boards, lower cover nearly detached, some surface abrasions, some patches of paper missing, edges and spine toned, 8vo, Favil Press, 1922.

⁂ Façade is Sitwell's rare contribution to modernist poetry and the avant-garde. The poems were intended for performance: before publication, Sitwell recited several of them to family and friends in a private performance, over instrumental accompaniment by William Walton, at her home on 24 January 1922. For that performance, the texts were printed in a programme which noted that "all these poems, and some additional ones, will appear in a book called Façade which Miss Sitwell is publishing privately in a limited edition with a special frontispiece in colour by Gino Severini". The first public performance, with an audience including Virginia Woolf, Evelyn Waugh, and Noël Coward, was met with derision with the poet recalling: "I had to hide behind the curtain. An old lady was waiting to beat me with an umbrella."