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In Your Garden.
by SACKVILLE-WEST, V.:
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- Hardcover
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Dorchester, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London. Michael Joseph. 1951 1st edition 2nd impression. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. In grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkened with a few small nicks edges of spine. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Attractive Private bookplate (M.J. Proctor) to front free endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 257 pp. With b/w plates. The author’s first gardening book, from articles published in The Observer. A month by month guide to plants and work to be done in the garden. Includes are and earlier book, ‘A lLittle Flower Book’, a seventeenth century treatise on the flower garden ‘Some Flowers’, and an article on Hidcote Manor. The appendix gives a short list of Nurserymen.
Synopsis
From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer. The columns were later collected into a set of books published between 1951 and 1958. Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for her subject, and her lively literary flair make these classics of garden writing essential for any serious gardener's bookshelf.
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- Bookseller
- The Antique Map & Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94651
- Title
- In Your Garden.
- Author
- SACKVILLE-WEST, V.:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London. Michael Joseph. 1951 1st edition 2nd impression
- Keywords
- NATURAL HISTORY Dustwrapper First Edition Illustrated Books
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The Antique Map & Bookshop was established in 1976 and has been in Puddletown since 1978. PUDDLETOWN is situated just outside DORCHESTER in the county of DORSET, on the A35 to BOURNEMOUTH. The village has a by-pass now which means there is easy access to the village and ample space for parking. Our shop is directly on the main road through the village.
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