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No Signposts in the Sea
by Vita Sackville-West
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Very Good
- Seller
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BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Doubleday & Company , 1961. First edition. Cloth. Good/Very Good. 8" by 5.5". None . A bright copy of the first US edition of Vita Sackville-West's last published novel. The first US edition, published in the same year as the true first UK edition by Michael Joseph. Novel following the protagonist Edmund Carr as he escapes his job at a Fleet Street paper to go on a cruise, chasing after a beautiful widow.Written by Vita Sackville-West, prominent author in the Bloomsbury Group, known for her intimate relationship with famous author Virginia Woolf and her passion and talent for garden design, being the designer of the stunning gardens at Sissinghurst Castle. This was her last novel before her death in 1962. Complete with price clipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally smart with light bumping to head and tail of spine. Damp marks to front board. Dust wrapper smart with light shelf wear, minor chipping to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Good
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 855A24
- Title
- No Signposts in the Sea
- Author
- Vita Sackville-West
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1961
- Size
- 8" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- vita sackville west first editions novels first editions
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
Biblio member since 2007
BATH, Somerset
About Rooke Books
Welcome to Rooke Books Antiquarian Bookseller
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Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
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