Even More For Your Garden
by Vita Sackville-West
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
London: Michael Joseph, 1958. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this final collection of Vita Sackville West's gardening columns, in the original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work, in the publisher's original price clipped dust wrapper.With eight photographic plates. Collated, complete.This fascinating horticultural work contains a number of articles written by Vita Sackville-West for The Observer, and is divided by month. The work is credited as being both a practical guide, whilst maintaining a romantic and somewhat poetic tone.In 1930, Sackville-West moved to Sissinghurst Castle in Kent, a property which had previously been owned by Vita's relatives. She, along with her diplomat husband Sir Harold Nicolson spent many years restoring the gardens on the estate. After a six year break from writing in order to restore the grounds, Sackville-West began writing once more in order to help fund her gardens, including a regular column for The Observer entitled 'In Your Garden'.Vita Sackville-West was an English poet, novelist and horticulturalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She is also known as the protagonist of 'Orlando', written by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Dust wrapper in excellent condition, with minor edge wear to tail of back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine
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Details
- Bookseller
- Rooke Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 782F6
- Title
- Even More For Your Garden
- Author
- Vita Sackville-West
- Illustrator
- None
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1958
- Size
- 8" by 5.5"
- Keywords
- Bloomsbury Set Virginia Woolf The Observer Horticulture Virginia Woolf
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
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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.
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- Fine
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.