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Classy Publishing, 2022. Paperback. New. 116 pages. 8.43x5.47x0.43 inches.
The Land. by SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita - 1926
by SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita
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The Land.
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London: William Heinemann, Ltd,, 1926. Signed by the author and artist First edition, signed limited issue, number 44 of 125 copies printed on japon and signed by the author and the illustrator. This poem, dedicated to her lover Dorothy Wellesley (1889-1956), was "an ambitious attempt to write a modern version of Virgil's Georgics by celebrating the annual round of the Kentish farming year" (ODNB). It was critically and commercially successful, and won Sackville-West the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. The artist George Plank (1883-1965) was an American illustrator known for his long association with Vogue magazine, and employed by Vita's mother, Lady Sackville, as an interior designer. His engraved chapter headings did not feature in the trade issue. Quarto. Original japon-backed cream paper boards, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed. Woodcut frontispiece and 4 chapter headers by George Plank. Bookplate of Bentham scholar and book collector Arnold Muirhead to front pastedown. A couple of trivial marks to covers, else a fine, bright copy. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A.13(b).
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The Land
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The Professor of Desire
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SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1985* Publisher: Penguin Books.* Binding and cover condition: Maroon and red illustrated soft card covers showing snake. No bumps or rubs. Very slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Very slight kink in spine. Lightly used. VG* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, & tight. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text. Very slight colouration to page edges. Light ageing to inside covers. VG* Illustrations:- None.* Pages: 263 pp. text.* Product Description:- As a student in college, David Kepesh styles himself "a rake among scholars, a scholar among rakes." Little does he realize how prophetic this motto will be?or how damning. For as Philip Roth follows Kepesh from the domesticity of childhood into the vast wilderness of erotic possibility, from a ménage à trois in London to the throes of loneliness in New York, he creates a supremely intelligent,…
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The Land
by Vita Sackville-West
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HOUSTON, Texas, United States
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Frances Lincoln, 2004-04. Hardcover. Used: Good.
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The Land
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The Land
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Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
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London: Heinemann, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Heinemann, 1926. Small octavo, x, 107 pages plus the spare paper titling-label tipped in at the rear. Cloth with a paper titling-label on the spine; cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities, with a tiny snag to the foot of the spine; top edge a little dusty, uncut leading edge a little foxed; endpapers offset; essentially an excellent copy. 'I sing the cycle of my country's year' - a book-length poem divided into the four seasons.
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THE LAND
by SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita; [JONES, Monica]:
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York, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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London: William Heinemann Ltd, Windmill Library. 1939. Reprint. A copy that used to belong to Monica Jones (1922-2001), lover, confidante, and lifelong correspondent of the poet, Philip Larkin, with a 1943 gift inscription to her ("from Mollie") in blue ink to the front free endpaper. The book later belonged to James Booth, Larkin's biographer and editor and former Professor of English at the University of Hull, with his name in pencil to the upper corner of the title page. Original terracotta cloth with a white paper label lettered the same colour affixed to the spine, in the neatly price-clipped dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and label sharp and clean, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the lightly creased and nicked original dustwrapper which is a little toned at the spine with a 2 cm closed tear to the upper edge of the front spine fold. A copy with a pleasing (double) Philip Larkin association. "I sing the cycle of my…
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The Land [First Edition in Jacket] - Vita Sackville-West
by Vita Sackville-West
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Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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W. Heinemann, 1926. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 0x0x0. First edition in original jacket. Text is free of marks, binding is still strong. Some light foxing to pages and page edges. Moderate exterior wear. Jacket soiled, chipped, with some portions missing. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available!
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THE LAND - Inscribed by Author
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Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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New York: Doubleday Doran & Coy Inc, 1927. 1st Edition Inscribed. 1st Edition Inscribed. by Author. Rare First American Edition inscribed by the author on front free endpaper "For Mrs. Little, V. Sackville-West Montreal March 10th 1933" From our Vita Sackville-West Collection. There would be six print runs in the first three years of its publication aided in part by Vita Sackville-West winning the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. 8vo. 107 pp.7 1/4" x 5 1/4" With mylar protection - the original brown cloth covered boards, with an inlay of the dust jacket woodcut illustration designed by George Plank stamped on the front board cover as well as the spine. A slight fading on the front as per the photos. Beige and black dust jacket in very good condition featuring the bold woodcut by GEORGE PLANK. Slight browning and a few chips and cuts to the spine. The DJ has the $2.00 price and stamped with the Hawthornden Prize across the spine. Published by Doran on 16 January 1927 at $1.50 in 500 copies bought…
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