Heritage by V 1892-1962 Sackville-West

Paperback / softback. New.

Paperback / softback. New. <p><i>Heritage</i> (1919) is a novel by Vita Sackville-West. While she is most widely recognized as the lover of English novelist Virginia Woolf, Sackville-West was a popular and gifted poet, playwright, and novelist in her own right. A prominent lesbian and bohemian figure, Sackville-West was also the daughter of an English Baron, granting her a unique and often divided perspective on life in the twentieth century. <i>Heritage</i>, her debut novel, is a semi-autobiographical tale of desire, secrecy, and family. “[H]er name was Ruth, and she was gleaning. She moved by stages across the field, throwing out her long wooden rake to its farthest extent and drawing it back to her until she had gathered sufficient strands into a heap, when, laying down the rake, she bound the corn against her thigh, rapidly and skilfully into a sheaf.” While staying on a farm in rural Kent, Malory finds himself enthralled with Ruth… Read More

Paperback / softback. New.

Hardback. New.

London: W. Collins Sons & Co., 1919. First Edition . Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Edition, 8vo, red cloth, 250 pp., moderate shelf wear, rubbing along joints, small pinhole on front joint, lower corner of page edges has coffee-like stain about 1/2" each of front and bottom edges; about 20 pp. have similar type stains in margins, the largest measuring about the size of a dime and diminishing in size and fading outward from the source for about 10 pp. on either side of it. Author's first novel. This is a respectable copy in spite of its faults. The front flyleaf is signed "Ina A. Bubna / Carbisdale 1920." Bubna was the daughter of Duchess Blair who constructed Carbisdale Castle, reputedly out of spite of her second husband's family. Construction of Carbisdale began in 1910 in the village of Culrain Scotland but the Duchess died in 1912 before it was completed. Her daughter Countess Ina A. Bubna, married to an Austrian… Read More

London: W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd, 1919. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition. 12mo. Neatly rebound in unstamped vellum with marbled endpapers. Owner's early four-line ink inscription on verso of front flyleaf, margins of the text-block have been carefully trimmed by the binder, vellum is moderately foxed, shadow of a now lacking spine label, a very good copy. Author's first novel.