The Easter Party by Vita Sackville-West - 1953

Michael Joseph, 1953. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1953. Fourth Impression. 239 pages. Pink dust jacket over red cloth. Clean pages with mild tanning throughout. Tightly bound with faint thumb-marking throughout. Boards have light shelf-wear with corner bumping. Mild sunning to spine and board edges. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has forward lean. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with some areas of loss, heavy tears, chips, and creasing. Mild sunning to spine. Mild rubbing and marking all over.

Michael Joseph, 1953. First edition, first printing. Near fine.. Cloth, no dust jacket.

Doubleday, 1953. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

London: Michael Joseph,, 1953. First edition, first impression, presentation copy inscribed on the front free endpaper "With love from V. and R. January 1953". The "R" stands for "Rollo", the author's German shepherd dog, featured in the novel as "Svend" and portrayed on the frontispiece. This is a very good copy of Sackville-West's penultimate novel. "The action of the story covers an Easter weekend at Anstey, the beautiful country house of Sir Water Mortibois - a weekend which brings together a number of people who should have been close to each other... and the Alsatian, Svend, the one creature whom Walter Mortibois really loves" (front flap blurb). Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt, yellow coated endpapers. With dust jacket. Frontispiece portrait of a German shepherd dog. Cocked, a hint of rubbing to corners, the binding otherwise bright, front hinge cracked but holding, rear hinge tender, else internally fresh and clean. A very good copy in good jacket, spine sunned, corners… Read More