Edith Sitwell & William Walton

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10" gatefold with 26 page lyric book 70TH Anniversary of this unique recording taken from Scarborough born Edith Sitwell series of poems and on the 100th anniversary of the original transcripts… Released with the original rare Jim Flora artwork, this beautiful package includes 26 page lyric booklet… Sitwell was like the Wahol of her day, publishing a mountain of essays and poems covering every aspect of the arts… The Scarborough-born poet-eccentric extraordinaire who had once publicly declared that her immense wisdom had been born of a long, unrequited love affair with the Russian painter, Pavel Ychelitchew – unrequited on the account of his homosexuality…