Edité par Trafalgar Square, 1992
ISBN 10 : 070780132X ISBN 13 : 9780707801322
Vendeur : WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
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Edité par Ernest Benn Ltd, 1969
ISBN 10 : 0510279015 ISBN 13 : 9780510279011
Vendeur : WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
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Edité par Nabu Press, 2010
ISBN 10 : 1176753355 ISBN 13 : 9781176753358
Vendeur : WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Royaume-Uni
Paperback. Etat : Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Later printing. 8vo; pp. xvi, 231; illustrated from photographs, reproductions. Owner's name; tear to top of backstrip. A clean tight copy, good or better in original ivory cloth. This edition, the "cheap edition", with margins smaller than the original and with twelve illustrations only, was the last edition in this format; post-war editions were reset and significantly reduced in size. Originally published in 1922. Vita Sackville-West's unrequited love affair with Knole, the ancestral home of the Sackvilles, lasted her entire life. This is her history of Knole and her family. architecture country house houses aristocracy bloomsbury.
Ernest Benn 1969. 224 pages + plates. Paper back. Former owners name.[#216768].
Ernest Benn 1984. 226 pages + plates. Paper back. Former owners name.[#177245].
Edité par London: Lindsay Drummond Limited, 1948
Vendeur : Librería Miau, Sevilla, SEVIL, Espagne
Etat : Bien. 8vo. 231 pp. In original cloth binding. No dust jacket. Good condition.
Edité par Lindsay Drummond, 1949
Vendeur : Simply Read Books, Boat Of Garten, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Good. No Jacket. 1949 reprint hardback pub Lindsay Drummond Ltd; no dj; Good, clean inside but age-mottled, clean green boards with gilt design to front; UK dealer, immediate dispatch.
Edité par William Heinemann Ltd, London, 1934
Vendeur : Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, Etats-Unis
Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Cheap Edition. The Cheap Edition reprint of 1934. Originally published in 1922, and reprinted, this being the seventh impression. A Fine, clean copy in white cloth, lacking the dustwrapper. Smaller dimension than the original edition. 231pp. with Index. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Q05791.
Edité par Lindsay Drummond,, 1947
Vendeur : Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, Royaume-Uni
8vo., Fourth Edition, with a portrait frontispiece, 24 plates, and a full-page pedigree in the text; decorative green cloth, upper board blocked in gilt, gilt back, a very good, bright, crisp, clean copy in price-clipped dustwrapper, the latter lightly frayed and creased at edges. Vita Sackville-West's extensive account of her beloved birthplace was first published in 1922. Each successive edition benefits from extra material incorporated from Phillips' definitive history of the Sackville family. Scarce in any early edition, especially in the dustwrapper. Cross & Hulme A8(d); Gretton, 8 (recording the first impression); Thomson p.145.
Edité par Lindsay Drummond Ltd., London, 1948
Vendeur : Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. 5th or later Edition. Second printing of the Lindsay Drummond edition, published in April 1948, following the first printing from November 1947. The book was first published in the UK in 1922 by William Heinemann, and was reprinted by them five times in the 1920s and 1930s. With 25 monochrome plates. The Lindsay Drummond edition is of interest as it contains "a new author's preface, and many hitherto unpublished photographs". ***A good copy in green paper-covered boards with a gilt titles on the spine and a gilt design to the front board. The boards are quite clean but there is a lot of wear and spotting to the spine (please see scans). The head and tail of the spine and corners are slightly creased, but there are no reading creases. No tears to the fragile binding. Top edge of page block slightly foxed. Internally the book is very good, with no inscriptions - just some light foxing to the endpapers, and there is a period bookseller's label on the rear pastedown: 'William Brown, Bookseller, Edinburgh'. No creases or tears. Internal pages clean with no foxing. Printed on nice quality paper. Spine tight. ***In a good original dustwrapper, which has a large square removed at the bottom of the front flap where the printed price would have been. The dustwrapper is printed with 'A New Edition - Third impression' on the front flap. Whilst the dustwrapper is otherwise largely complete, there is also a large chip and loss at the head of the spine and a portion of the top edge of the front panel near the spine, which slightly affects the titles. There is also some light edge wear, slight creases and nicks at the edges. The back panel is clean, and carries a photo of Richard Sackville, 3rd Earl of Dorset, 1589-1624). The spine of the dustwrapper is quite clean, with no fading or browning. Dustwrapper bright. ***220mm x 142mm. 231 pages including an Appendix - "A Note on Thieves' Cant", and a detailed Index at the back of the book. ***'This book was first published in 1922. Since it was written some new information has been incorporated in two massive volumes entitled "History of the Sackville Family, together with a description of Knole ans early owners of Knole," by Charles J. Phillips.' (Quote taken from the author's foreword) ***'Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 - 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer. Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her life. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf. She wrote a column in The Observer from 1946 to 1961 and is remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst created with her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson. (Wiki) ***A second printing of the Lindsay Drummond edition, published in April 1948 - a few months after the first in November 1947. A good reading copy of this interesting biographical work by Vita Sackville-West. With additional photographs compared with the William Heinemann edition. The book is quite fragile in production, as post-war economic conditions precluded anything more lavish - as remarked upon in the author's preface. Vita Sackville-West's extensive account of her beloved birthplace was first published in 1922. Each successive edition benefits from extra material incorporated from Charles J. Phillips' definitive history of the Sackville family. Uncommon in any early edition, especially in the dustwrapper. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Edité par Heinemann
Vendeur : Goldstone Rare Books, Llandybie, CARMS, Royaume-Uni
hardcover. Etat : Good. No dust jacket. Photograph available on request.
Edité par William Heinemann, 1923
Vendeur : T S Hill Books, Dorking, Royaume-Uni
Hardcover. Etat : Fair. A fair copy only of the new impression, published in January 1923, two months after the first edition. No dust jacket. There is some creasing, rubbing and chipping at the head of the spine, and the lower cover is a bit marked. There is also a small dent on the left-hand edge of the lower cover. There is some foxing to the opening and closing leaves, lighter scattered foxing throughout. An attractive private book plate remains on the front paste-down, and there are a couple of old pencilled prices in shillings on the front free endpaper. All the illustrations are present. Overall, a decent early impression, but with some rubbing and chipping at the head of the spine, and some foxing at the beginning and end of the volume. Collated and complete.
Edité par Heinemann,, 1923
Vendeur : Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, Royaume-Uni
Roy. 8vo., Second Impression, with portrait frontispiece in photogravure (original tissue guard present) and 24 plates; original ivory buckram printed in black with striking design by William Nicholson, uncut, covers lightly age-soiled as usual else a bright, clean copy. Vita Sackville-West's extensive account of her beloved birthplace was first published in the preceding year. ALL EARLY PRINTINGS ARE SCARCE. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A8a; Gretton 8 (both recording the first impression).
Edité par William Heinemann., London., 1922
Vendeur : Beaux Books, ABA, ILAB, Hartley Wintney, HAMPS, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
Etat : Very Good. Cover design by William Nicholson. (illustrateur). 1922. First edition. William Heinemann. London. 1922. First edition. Hardback, 4to; cream buckram-bound boards with illustration in black to front panel and titles to spine. xvi, 232 pages. Engraved portrait frontispiece and several hors-texte illustrations. English. 260x170mm. 1.1kg. Very good; some light soiling to spine and rear panel, slight wear to spine ends; offsetting to endpapers, contemporary owner's inscription to front pastedown. A first edition of Vita Sackville-West's personal account of her beloved ancestral home and the ancestors who presided there. The book spans four centuries from the reign of Elizabeth I to the beginning of the twentieth century, and Knole provides a lively background to a very English history lesson. A design by William Nicholson appears on the front cover. Beaux Books specialises in fine and rare books on art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries. We welcome questions about our books and we are happy to provide any extra images. Buy with confidence from an experienced bookseller.
Edité par New York Doran n.d. circa, 1922
Vendeur : Shapero Rare Books, London, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
First U.S. edition, 8vo, original decorated boards, dust-wrapper, minor edge wear, a very good copy. The Romantic record of the house of the Sackvilles.
Edité par William Heinemann, London, 1949
Vendeur : TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Membre d'association : IOBA
Edition originale Signé
First Edition, 3rd Impression of the 1922 Edition KNOLE AND THE SACKVILLES of Vita Sackville-West's homage to her ancestral family home, Knole. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt stamping on the front and spine with some slight staining and minor bumping on the front board. Usual shelf wear to the spine. Pages are clean. A very good copy. Signed and Inscribed to the front free endpaper. "For Miss Cashford- who knows Knole-, V. S.W. Sissyinghurst Christmas 1949" A wonderful addition to any VSW collector's library.
Edité par London: William Heinemann, 1922, 1922
Vendeur : Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, Royaume-Uni
Edition originale
First edition, first impression, in the rare dust jacket and including a typed letter signed by the author with an ink postscript and two corrections. In the letter, sent to one Miss Mabey on 6 May 1952 on Sissinghurst Castle letterhead, Sackville-West identifies two flowers found in the castle gardens, Madame Edouard Herriot and the Bishop, which "seem to be as fine as ever". The work presents a hagiographical account of Sackville-West's family and ancestral home. The author's "upbringing, both privileged and solitary, was shaped above all by the romantic atmosphere and associations of Knole, the sprawling Tudor palace set in a spacious park in Kent, where she spent her childhood" (ODNB). Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A8a. Large octavo. Original white cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, large vignette on front cover in black, designed by William Nicholson after a frieze at Knole, bottom edge uncut. With dust jacket, replicating the front cover design. Photographic half-tone frontispiece with tissue guard, 24 half-tone plates. Engraved bookplate of the field sportsman Percy Mann, who in 1903 toured the globe with ornithology illustrator George Edward Lodge, on front pastedown; Christmas 1922 gift inscription to Mann from one Norah on front free endpaper. Label remnant on front free endpaper, rear inner hinge split but sound, foxing to edges, text clean; unclipped jacket spine toned, slight soiling and chips, two closed tears measuring 4 cm, overall well-preserved: a very good copy in like jacket.
Cloth. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. Not Stated (illustrateur). A signed presentation copy of Vita Sackville-West's ode to her ancestral home Knole House, in Kent. Inscribed by Sackville-West herself to the front free endpaper, with 'for Galby, with love from the author, Christmas 1954.The 1949 third impression of Lyndsay Drummond's 'New Edition' of the work, which was first published in 1922. In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and twelve double sided plates. Collated, complete.A history of Knole and it's long association with the Sackville family.Knole is a large country house in Kent, ranked as one of the top five largest houses in England. Dating back to the mid fifteenth-century, with its association with the Sackville family beginning in 1603. Before this, Queen Elizabeth granted the estate to her cousin, Thomas Sackville, though he had to buy the lease from its currently owner, Robert Dudley, the favourite of Queen Elizabeth.Written by the noted Bloomsbury author Vita Sackville-West, well known today for her friendship and relationship with fellow author, Virginia Woolf. Sackville-West provided the inspiration for Woolf's beloved novel 'Orlando'. Sackville-West was also a noted garden designer at her house Sissinghurst, the garden of which is still celebrated today.Vita was born and raised at Knole House, writing prolifically there, producing eight full-length novels between the years 1906-1910. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price clipped dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally bright, with bumping to back strip head and tail. Foxing to fore edge of text block. Front hinge strained, but firmly held. Inscription to front free endpaper. Significant spotting to endpapers. Chipping to back strip head and tail, with closed tear to head of front wrap. Significant edge wear to rear wrap head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright, with instance of significant spotting. Very Good. signed by author. book.
Edité par William Heinemann, London, 1931
Vendeur : TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Membre d'association : IOBA
Edition originale Signé
First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author. First Edition of KNOLE AND THE SACKVILLES with RARE wrapper of Vita Sackville-West's homage to her ancestral family home, Knole. Signed and Inscribed "For Miss E.T.Gould, V. Sackville West, Dana Hale, Jan. 22nd, 1933" First Edition, 6th Impression of the 1922 Edition. 248 pp. plus fp. and includes 24 impressive black and white plates. Size: 9 7/8" x 6". This clean copy is bound in cream buckram with black stamping with its woodblock print by William Nicholson. This illustration for the wrapper and cover was inspired by a section of the famous frieze at Knole. This rare dustjacket is printed in red on cream coloured stock. There are a few pieces missing from the dustjacket as per the photos.Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A8. A wonderful addition to any VSW collector's library.