The Garden

London: Michael Joseph Limited,, 1946. First edition, signed limited issue, number 551 of 750 copies, numbered and signed by the author, and beautifully produced on handmade paper. This long poetical sequence on Sackville-West's favourite subject "tries to sum up her own horticultural aesthetic and is in some respects superior to its predecessor The Land" (ODNB). Large octavo. Original brown… Read more about this item

London: Michael Joseph, 1931. First edition. Publisher's brown cloth, near fine copy. One of 750, printed on handmade paper, numbered and signed.

London: Michael Joseph Limited, 1946. First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good. 8.5" by 5.5". None. The first edition of this touching poem following a year in the life of a garden, by Vita Sackville-West. The first edition, first impression.In the original unclipped dust wrapper.A person and symbolic poem by Vita Sackville-West, set against the backdrop of World War… Read more about this item

Michael Joseph , 1946 . Hardback. . 8vo tan cloth. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale Good+ hardback. Light edgewear esp. to spine extremities, corners bumped, pages gently age-toned, contents clean and unmarked.

London: Michael Joseph (1946), 1946. First trade edition. 8vo; 135 pp. A good copy in a good dust jacket with edgewear and soiling to spine; tear to front flap. A poem in five parts; it won the Heinemann Prize. It can be read "not so much as a gardening treatise in verse as a long meditation exploring the poet's personal… Read more about this item