VITA SACKVILLE-WEST
by [Bookseller's Catalogue]. FOX, Sue, and Sarah Funke
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- first
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- Seller
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York City: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2004. Octavo. Decorated green and white stiff card, paper label, full fold-in flaps. First edition. Frontispiece color illustration, color plates. [8],67,[5] pp. Excerpt of 1928 letter to Virginia Woolf as prologue; Introduction by Sackville-West's son, Nigel Nicolson; Notes, and Works Cited. Collection of forty-five books, journals, and manuscripts, with extensive descriptions and essays. The bookplate of the noted Hogarth Press /Bloomsbury Group collector William Beekman is affixed under front flap, else a fine copy.
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- Seller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 530
- Title
- VITA SACKVILLE-WEST
- Author
- [Bookseller's Catalogue]. FOX, Sue, and Sarah Funke
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Publisher
- Glenn Horowitz Bookseller
- Place of Publication
- New York City
- Date Published
- 2004
- Keywords
- Knole House, Sissinghurst, gardening, landscape
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About the Seller
Second Wind Books LLC
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New Haven, Connecticut
About Second Wind Books LLC
Second Wind Books is committed to offering important British and American first editions in the Modernist vein, with an emphasis on books about books, books by and about women and adjacent admirers. Literature, poetry, small and fine press, letters and manuscripts, original artwork, photographs, are what interests us most. Our founder began bookselling under the tutelage of a truly great bookman in 2006, and is now offering that learned expertise in her own shop. Interested in offers of literature from 1900 to 1950, either for sale or to evaluate.
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