Country Notes in Wartime by Sackville-West, V - 1941

Hogarth Press, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1940. First Edition. 80 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout however binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy sunning to all surfaces. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

London, England: Doubleday Doran & Company, Inc., 1941. First, Thus . Hardcover. Very Good+/Good. Jullian, Philippe. Reflections on a memorable year in an unchanging rural England,'' based on the author's personal diary that she kept from Autumn 1939-Autumn 1940, impacted by the war, but steeped in the quiet resilience of the countryside. 85 pp. Orig. published in the New Statesman & Nation magazines, then in book form in London by the Hogarth Press, this is the First American Edition, First Printing, from Doubleday Doran, 1941. Small octavo bound in soft green cloth over boards lettered in black to spine is in VG condition: very clean, binding strong & straight, pages modestly tanned but completely unmarked. Mild rubbing& a bit of sunning to extremities, lightly bumped corners. The semi-clipped at front flap corners DJ (orig. $1.00 price intact) is just Good, with heavier rubbing, a short unclosed to bottom edge of front cover, & chipping at all corners/spine tips;… Read More

The Hogarth Press, London., 1940. First edition. Octavo. 80 pages. More rural snippets in the manner of the author's Country Notes published in 1939. That volume was quarto and illustrated; the exigencies of war render this one much more modest.Some spotting to free endpapers. Covers a bit faded at spine and edges. Very good in good, nicked, slightly chipped and rubbed dustwrapper a bit creased at rear panel. Becoming scarce.