SEDUCERS IN ECUADOR by Sackville-West, Vita - 1924

Paperback. Acceptable.

Paperback. Very Good.

London: hogarth, 1924. hardcover. fine/poor. Small 8vo, mottled red & black cloth, paper label. London: Hogarth Press, 1924. First Edition.<br/> <br/> Dedicated to Viginia Woolf. Fine copy in poor dust wrapper which is faded & stained.<br/> <br/>

London: Hogarth Press, 1924. First edition. One of 1,500 copies. Marbled red cloth with red topstain, cream dust jacket. [74] pp. Spine lightly rolled, light foxing to page block and occasional pages throughout; dust jacket toned to spine and lightly soiled from handling. A very good copy. Woolmer 52.

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, , 1924. Very pretty, rather like a ladybird First edition, first impression, of the first book by Vita Sackville-West published by Woolf at the Hogarth Press. Published in a run of 1,500 copies, it is rarely found in the jacket and in such good condition. The pair had first met in December 1922, and quickly became confidants and friends. Seducers in Ecuador followed on 30 October 1924, with a dedication to Woolf, and the two women began an affair the next year. Woolf praised Sackville-West's novel as "the sort of thing I should like to write myself", and in a letter to the author described how much she liked "its texture - the sense of all the fine things you have dropped in to it, so that it is full of beauty in itself when nothing is happening... I am very glad that we are going to publish it, and extremely proud and indeed touched, with my childlike dazzled affection for you, that you should dedicate it to me" (15 September 1924). Following… Read More