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Pepita
de Vita Sackville-West
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Very Good Indeed/Near Fine
- Librería
-
BATH, Somerset, United Kingdom
Precio
EUR 767.13EUR 690.42
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Sobre este artículo
London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1937 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Near Fine. 9" by 6". Not Stated. The first edition of English writer and garden designer Vita Sackville-West's fascinating biography on her grandmother and mother. The first edition, first impression of Vita Sackville-West's biography of her grandmother, Pepita de Oliva, and her mother, Lady Sackville.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Loosely inserted is a double sided leaf implying an association with Knole House - the ancestral home of the Sackvilles - and the letter writer. The note reads 'Cabinet between door & fireplace in the King"s Bedroom (Silver Room) Knole. - In " Avenue with pillars in centre pull out centre (2nd) drawer on right feel between & find another drawer in it a piece of paper, on which is written "father, Mummy & Vita looked into this drawer April 29 1898" signed Vita". The slip is concluded with the names Mrs McClean and Mrs Greaves.Pepita was a Romani Spanish dancer, who popularised Spanish flamenco dancing whilst performing across Europe. Despite an official marriage, Pepita had a long partnership with Lionel Sackville-West, with whom she had five children.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated, complete.Four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.Perhaps the best known work from Bloomsbury Group figure, garden designer and writer Vita Sackville-West, well known today for her relationship with Virginia Woolf, and for providing the inspiration for Woolf's beloved novel 'Orlando'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Spotting to fore edge of text block. Offsetting to endpapers. Dust wrapper exceptionally bright, with a miniscule closed tear to the head of the back strip, and minor light spotting to fore edge of rear wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Spotting to title page, with instances of foxing to perimeters of leaves facing plates. Pages bright. Very Good Indeed
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- Librería
- Rooke Books
(GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 878F44
- Título
- Pepita
- Autor
- Vita Sackville-West
- Ilustrador
- Not Stated
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good Indeed
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Near Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
- Lugar de publicación
- London
- Fecha de publicación
- 1937
- Tamaño
- 9" by 6"
- Palabras clave
- bloomsbury group orlando virginia woolf knole house orlando mrs mcclean
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Rooke Books
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BATH, Somerset
Sobre Rooke Books
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We are a small team dedicated to bringing you very scarce books at reasonable prices. We specialise in rare and hard to come by works on all subjects over the last 500 years, together with modern first editions and decorative sets and bindings. Our library has something for every interest and specialism. We deliver worldwide using a fully tracked and insured courier delivery service.
Where are We?
Based in the literary city of Bath, our offices are housed in the Eastern Dispensary. Built in 1845, the building originally existed as a charitable institution providing medical care. The building now houses our collection of over twenty thousand books and has five full time members of staff.
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
