Poems of the Land Army: An Anthology of Verse By Members of the Women's Land Army by Various; Sackville-West, Vita (foreword)

Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1922. First edition. Cloth. Very Good. 8" by 5". None. The first edition of this 'New Decameron', an interesting association copy from the library of Victoria Sackville-West, mother of the contributor Vita. The first edition of this work.From the library of Victoria Sackville, with her Knole bookplate to the front paste down. This was the mother of Vita Sackville-West, who contributed to this volume.Knole is a large country house in Kent, ranked as one of the top five largest houses in England. Dating back to the mid fifteenth-century, with its association with the Sackville family beginning in 1603. Before this, Queen Elizabeth granted the estate to her cousin, Thomas Sackville, though he had to buy the lease from its currently owner, Robert Dudley, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth.Vita Sackville-West was a noted Bloomsbury author, well known today for her friendship and relationship with fellow author, Virginia Woolf. Sackville-West provided the inspiration for Woolf's… Read More

London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. [Childhood Anthology] DELUXE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii, 124 [4]. In contemporary full vellum with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Binder's label for Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co. to copyright page. A little toning to edges, and some light marks and discolouration to binding. Near fine. Deckled edges suggest this is the publisher's deluxe issue, though it could have been bound privately around the time of issue.