Aphra Behn: The Incomparable Astrea - 1st ed, in jacket - Vita Sackville-West by Sackville-West, Vita - 1927

Aphra Behn by V. Sackville-West. 1927 Gerald Howe, first edition, 92 pages. Part of the Representative Women series edited by Francis Birrell: "The series will give in biographical form a picture of female accomplishment throughout the ages." Includes a newspaper clipping of a correction that Sackville-West sent into the Times in 1961 about an article they ran on Aprha Behn. Sackville-West was a British novelist and biographer, companion and lover to Virginia Woolf, and accomplished gardener.
Condition: Good. Shelf wear, missing DJ, owner name on first page.
"But let us say straight away that Aphra Behn is no Shakespeare, the smallest clue to the detail of whose life would be precious and worth pursuing."

London: Gerald Howe, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Blue cloth, gilt spine. Early penciled owner signature on front fly with tiny ink notations on rear pastedown, light rubbing on cover, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

New York: The Viking Press, 1928. 1st edition. Cloth. Good+. 1st edition thus, 1928. A Good+ copy. 12mo., 177 pp., bound in publishers blue cloth with paper paste down on front cover and spine. Spine faded, edges and tips rubbed; covers soiled. End pages toned, otherwise clean and unmarked. Aphra Behn, (14 December 1640 - 16 April 1689) was an English playwright, poet, prose writer and translator from the Restoration era. As one of the first English women to earn her living by her writing, she broke cultural barriers and served as a literary role model for later generations of women authors. - Wiki.