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Pepita.
by SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,, 1937. Pepita, can I re-create you? Come to me First edition, first impression, signed by the author on the front free endpaper, of this biography of her mother, Lady Sackville, and grandmother, Josefa de la Oliva, a Romani Spanish dancer who performed under the stage name Pepita. The work relates the love affair of the second Baron Sackville and Pepita. It is "a memorable evocation of her mother and grandmother in which [Sackville-West] tried to come to terms with the most unsettling and uncomfortable aspects of her early life and her dual nationality" (ODNB), seeing "the Spanish side of her nature as passionate and perverse and the English side of her nature as caring and controlled" (Orlando). Octavo. Original brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With supplied dust jacket. Frontispiece and 15 plates from photographs. "Droste milk chocolate" card loosely inserted at p. 82. Spine very slightly cocked, gentle rubbing to extremities, toning to free endpapers, occasional faint foxing, plate at p. 30 shaken, a lovely copy in very good condition in an excellent supplied jacket, not-clipped, spine faintly sunned, slight loss to head of rear panel and spine, tiny hole to top of spine. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A32a; Woolmer 419.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 154852
- Title
- Pepita.
- Author
- SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,
- Date Published
- 1937
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
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London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- 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....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cocked
- Refers to a state where the spine of a book is lightly "twisted" in such a way that the front and rear boards of a book do not...
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