PEPITA
by Vita Sackville-West
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
Garden City , NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1937. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Text/As New & Bright. Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1937. Beige linen boards w/gilt embossed black linen spine/VG w/light surface soiling. DJ/None. A family biography from Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, (1892 -- 1962), gifted, award winning English poet, novelist, garden designer, journalist, and prolific letter writer & diarist. Author of some 13 novels. Remembeerd for inspirring the androgynous protagonist of Orlando, the bioraphy by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf . This is the story of her grandmother and her mother. Grandmother Pepita, born to an old-clothes peddler, who danced her way to fortune and had a scandalous affair with an English diplomat. Their illegitimate daughter Victoria, Vita's mother, was raised hidden in a convent, would become mistress of the grand old English house of Knole. 309 pgs in 2 parts: Part I, Pepita, 1830 - 1872; and II, Pepita's Daughter, 1862 - 1936. Strong copy less dustjacket.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019561
- Title
- PEPITA
- Author
- Vita Sackville-West
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City , NY
- Date Published
- 1937
- Keywords
- Memoir/Autobiography/Family History
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