The Land by Vita Sackville-West - 1927

Classy Publishing, 2022. Paperback. New. 116 pages. 8.43x5.47x0.43 inches.

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,… Read More

Frances Lincoln, 2004-04. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

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… Read More

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.

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!

London: William Heinemann Ltd,, 1926. Signed, with an astronomical correction to the text First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the title page, one of 1,000 copies printed. The author has also, in the same ink, corrected an astronomical error in the text on p. 97, the line "four times the seasons changed, twelve times the moon" amended to "thirteen the moon". Sackville-West's poem is structured into the four seasons and was "an ambitious attempt to write a modern version of Virgil's Georgics by celebrating the annual round of the Kentish farming year" (ODNB). This poem, dedicated to Sackville-West's lover Dorothy Wellesley (1889-1956), was a critical and commercial success. In 1927 it was chosen for the Hawthornden Prize which was presented by John Drinkwater in the Aeolian Hall, London. Drinkwater had previously reviewed the poem in The Observer and noted "it contains some of the loveliest verse written in this century". Octavo. Original brown cloth, printed paper label to spine,… Read More

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… Read More