[Signed] [First Edition] Penny Foolish: A book of Tirades...

Signed Copy. First Edition,1935. Second impression,October 1935 - a month after the first printing. 371 pp., uncut. Fine in publisher's raspberry cloth in NF unclipped,complete pictorial d.j. designed by the artist and wood engraver John Farleigh. Now protected by clear archival wrap. Binding tight and firm, corners sharp, boards clean and bright.Apart from dedication by Sitwell, no other markings or inscriptions. Jacket with minimal shelf wear to top edge of spine. Very rare in the complete dust jacket. A really lovely copy. " From 1933 until the beginning of the 2nd World War, Sitwell wrote a weekly article for 'The Sunday Referee'. This book is a collection of those essays. According to a contemporary review in 'Time and Tide', "'Penny Foolish' is a entertaining a book as we have come across for several months. It sparkles from beginning to end. And it is packed with good sense about a multitude of things." Sitwell says of 'Friends', "If you must have faithfulness, be content to rely on dogs ( or upon those human beings who most resemble them)for the friendship of a dog, or of an old general, implies devotion without criticism"; of 'Friends and Enemies' "Never forgive your enemies - it only makes them more bitter!"; of 'English Food', it "inclines us to wish that Napoleon had in the end conquered England, so that French chefs could have reformed our food".

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