In Your Garden. de Sackville-West, Vita

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Michael Joseph 1952 Hardback. Good. ex lib, dj torn on spineDust Jacket.

London: The Garden Book Club, 1952. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8" by 5". None . An early printing of Vita Sackville-West's popular gardening work, 'In Your Garden.' An early printing of Vita Sackville-West's popular gardening volume, comprised of the columns which originally appeared in the Observer from 1946. The 'Garden Book Club' edition of 1952, the first book edition was published in 1951, both uncommon editions. Vita's voice and passion for gardens and nature made her writings very popular: personal and informal but offering practical advice at the same time, it attracted both amateur and expert gardeners.Included in this charming book is a reprint of her 1937 book Some Flowers.Vita Sackville-West is known not only for her successful writing career, but also for her creation of the gardens at Sissinghurst Castle together with her husband Harold Nicolson. With the price-clipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear… Leer más

Frances Lincoln, 2006-01-25. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Frances Lincoln [and] Oxenwood Press,, [1998-2004]. 4 vols., 8vo., with frontispiece and 9 coloured plates in the second volume; cloth (green/green/yellow/yellow respectively), gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper. Bright set of reissues of the original editions of 1951-58. The text of the second volume is augmented by 10 fine coloured plates by Frederick W. Smith. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE.

London: Michael Joseph,, 1951-58. Her pages offer the uninhibited pleasures of the imagination First editions, first impressions; the complete set of Sackville-West's collections of her highly successful gardening columns. All but two of the essays herein were first printed in The Observer between 1950 and 1957. She called her columns "my sticklebacks", "presumably after the aquatic creature which gave her a subject when she was in despair of finding any other. She would be surprised to know that today her articles, variously anthologized... should be among her best-known works, even if they made Sissinghurst (now a property of the National Trust) one of the most famous of English gardens" (Nicolson, p. viii). Four works, octavo. Original grey, green, red, and blue cloth, spines lettered in gilt, top edges of In Your Garden and In Your Garden Again green, More For Your Garden red. With dust jackets. Photographic half-tone frontispieces, 28 half-tone plates. Armorial bookplate of Lionel Gordon… Leer más