Search Results: the land by vita sackville west

George H Doran Company, 1927. First Edition. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. First American Edition. An ex-library copy, with all that entails, including but not limited to library markings, stickers, and stamps. A Good copy. Book has shelfwear, soiling to covers, bumped corners, a cocked spine, aforementioned ex-library issues, and toning to pages. No jacket. 8vo. - over 7¾' in - 9¾' in.

Classy Publishing, 2022. Paperback. New. 116 pages. 8.43x5.47x0.43 inches.

Frances Lincoln, 2004-04. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Paperback / softback. New.

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Coy, 1933. Hardcover. Very Good. Later American edition, from English sheets. 12mo. Tan cloth with publisher's printed paper label on cover and spine. Front fly neatly excised, light foxing on several pages along the gutter, some separation at the gutters, very good and sound, lacking the dust jacket. Inscribed by Pierpont Stackpole, possibly the aide to Lieutenant General Hunter Liggett who was the commander of the first American corps in France. Stackpole kept a diary of his time by Liggett's side that was published in 2009 titled, *In the Company of Generals: The World War I Diary of Pierpont L. Stackpole* which provided insights into the American Expeditionary Forces.

London: The Land Girl 55pp. Pages clean and bright, soft covers and binding tidy.. Soft. Very Good. 12mo. Anthology.

The Hermit Press, 1987. Limited to 250 numbered copies. Bound in original publishers decorative printed hardcover. Lightly knocked on head of spine. Binding in good clean firm condition. Internally, pages clean and bright. A very nice clean copy. . Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Plus. Illus. by Anthony Christmas . Small 8vo.

Derbyshire: The Hermit Press, 1987. No. 53 of 250 copies. Fine. No. 53 of 250 copies. Unpaged. 8p, colophon. Illustrated with three wood engravings by Anthony Christmas, the frontispiece in color. Bound in rather festive color printed Curwen paper over boards without external titles.

London: William Heinemann Ltd, Windmill Library. 1939. Reprint. A copy that used to belong to Monica Jones (1922-2001), lover, confidante, and lifelong correspondent of the poet, Philip Larkin, with a 1943 gift inscription to her ("from Mollie") in blue ink to the front free endpaper. The book later belonged to James Booth, Larkin's biographer and editor and former Professor of English at the University of Hull, with his name in pencil to the upper corner of the title page. Original terracotta cloth with a white paper label lettered the same colour affixed to the spine, in the neatly price-clipped dustwrapper. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and label sharp and clean, the contents clean throughout. Complete with the lightly creased and nicked original dustwrapper which is a little toned at the spine with a 2 cm closed tear to the upper edge of the front spine fold. A copy with a pleasing (double) Philip Larkin association. "I sing the cycle of my… Read More

London: Heinemann, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. London, Heinemann, 1926. Small octavo, x, 107 pages plus the spare paper titling-label tipped in at the rear. Cloth with a paper titling-label on the spine; cloth lightly rubbed at the extremities, with a tiny snag to the foot of the spine; top edge a little dusty, uncut leading edge a little foxed; endpapers offset; essentially an excellent copy. 'I sing the cycle of my country's year' - a book-length poem divided into the four seasons.

Michael Joseph, London. 1944. First edition.. Hardback.. Black and White photographs. Very Good in Good (only) Dust Jacket (DJ lacks spine). DJ protected by high-grade removable clear cover.

London: The Hermit Press. 1987. Octavo Size [approx 15.5 x 22.8cm]. Very Good condition. Illustrated with lovely wood-engravings by Anthony Christmas. Limited edition of 250 of which this is no. 238. A charming book printed by hand at the Hermit Press on Zerkall mould-made paper using an 1834 Imperial Press. The book is bound by Woolnough Fine Binding, the boards are covered in a genuine Curwen pattern paper. Unpaginated. A short excerpt from the narrative length poem originally published in 1926. . Limited Edition. Hardback.

W. Heinemann, 1926. First Edition. hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 0x0x0. First edition in original jacket. Text is free of marks, binding is still strong. Some light foxing to pages and page edges. Moderate exterior wear. Jacket soiled, chipped, with some portions missing. Reliable customer service. Photos available. We ship daily. Expedited shipping available!

Buxton, UK: Hermit Press, 1987. Beautiful limited edition (#79/250 copies) bound with boards in genuine Curwen pattern paper and end papers in pale blue rag, all pages with deckled edge. Binding in very good condition, with only minor rubbing and denting at bottom and top of spine; interior perfectly clean and crisp, with beautiful wood engravings (one in color) by Anthony Christmas. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Jacket as Published. Illus. by Anthony Christmas. 7 x 5 1/2". Limtied Edition.

Michael Joseph,, [1944]. 8vo., First Edition, with frontispiece and 62 pages of plates, neat WLA veteran's signature on front free endpaper; green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt and lettered in red, backstrip lettered in red, an unusually bright, clean copy in unclipped, mildly dust-soiled dustwrapper. The standard contemporary account published for the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme, A41a; Gretton, 39.

Webb & Bower. London: Webb & Bower (1989) large 8vo., Brown publisher's boards lettered in light black to spine; with a black printed motif to the centre of the upper board; unclipped dust wrapper (£14.95); pp. 190; a very good copy. Light handling wear to the dust wrapper edges. The book has mild compression to the corners. The upper text block edge has moderate foxing marks. First edition. Signed by the illustrator Peter Firmin underneath the frontispiece illustration and dated by him in the year of publication. In the corner of the same page he has inscribed "For oliver with love Peter". More likely, due to the warm inscription, it is to his long time bagpuss, noggin and clangers collaborator Oliver Postgate. Peter Firmin was commissioned with the task of illustrating Vita Sackville West's poetry from her titles The Land and The Garden. The book is profusely packed with his illustrations. With an introduction by Nigel Nicolson. . Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. 1989.

Devon: Webb & Bower & Michael Joseph, 1989. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this New Edition with charming illustrations by Peter Firmin, bringing together The Land, winner of the Hawthornden Prize and The Garden, winner of the Heinemann Prize as companion pieces. A fine copy in decorated brown paper covered boards, black titles to the spine in a near fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 190 pp.

London: William Heinemann / Michael Joseph [through 1946], 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. A splendid set (two first impressions) of the author's long narrative poems, each evoking a bucolic idyll. The Land: 8vo: [10],108pp. Publisher's burnt orange buckram, paper title label printed in red to spine (extra label, as issued, attached to colophon leaf), fore- and bottom edges uncut, in the marvelous cream dust jacket printed in black and illustrated by George Plank (who also created dozens of covers for Vogue magazine in an art-deco style), priced 6/- on spine panel. An exceptional copy, one of only 1,000 printed, tight, square and unread; about Fine jacket (back panel lightly dust-soiled). Chosen for the Hawthornden Prize, in 1927. The Garden: Tall, slim 8vo: 134,[1]pp, with title-page vignette, section openers, and tailpieces by Broom Lynne. Publisher's burnt orange cloth, spine stamped in silver, top edge stained terracotta, terracotta floral end papers; matching illustrated dust… Read More

New York: Doubleday Doran & Coy Inc, 1927. 1st Edition Inscribed. 1st Edition Inscribed. by Author. Rare First American Edition inscribed by the author on front free endpaper "For Mrs. Little, V. Sackville-West Montreal March 10th 1933" From our Vita Sackville-West Collection. There would be six print runs in the first three years of its publication aided in part by Vita Sackville-West winning the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. 8vo. 107 pp.7 1/4" x 5 1/4" With mylar protection - the original brown cloth covered boards, with an inlay of the dust jacket woodcut illustration designed by George Plank stamped on the front board cover as well as the spine. A slight fading on the front as per the photos. Beige and black dust jacket in very good condition featuring the bold woodcut by GEORGE PLANK. Slight browning and a few chips and cuts to the spine. The DJ has the $2.00 price and stamped with the Hawthornden Prize across the spine. Published by Doran on 16 January 1927 at $1.50 in 500 copies bought… Read More