Mandrake Over The Water-Carrier [Signed, First Edition] - Edward Sackville-West by Edward Sackville-West - 1928

William Heinemann, London, 1928. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Blue coloured cloth covered boards with gilt coloured titles to the backstrip. A novel with a heavy autobiographical feeling. Softening with rubbing to the backstrip edges with a small tear to the top edge. Rubbing to the lower book edges with fading of the backstrip. Heavy flecking to the front panel with lesser flecking of the rear panel – please see photograph. Browning and scattered foxing to the textblock edges and lighter browning and lighter foxing to the pages. Offset tanning and browning to the endpapers with previous owner's name to the top edge of the free front end paper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [12] 315, [1] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Literature & Literary; Inventory No: 0119499. .

Heinemann, London, 1928,. 1928. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 315pp, edges browned and slight foxing, text clean and sound, owner's name on front endpaper, blue cloth, slightly frayed at spine ends, Good condition / no dustwrapper .

London:: William Heinemann,, [1928].. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. A bright, fine copy in a jacket with some shallow chipping at the top of the lightly tanned spine.. 8vo,. Author's first book.

London: Heinemann, 1928. Hardcover. Very Good/Near Fine. First edition. Neat, contemporary owner name on front fly, a little flaking on the cloth in the front gutter, very good in slightly soiled, else near fine dust jacket. A very attractive copy of a scarce title.

London: Heinemann, 1928. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. Slight foxing to the endpapers else fine in a lightly age-toned and spine-tanned, near fine dustwrapper. A remarkable survivor as the jacket is slightly larger than the book, and is particularly susceptible to wear. Very scarce.

The First UK printing published by Heinemann in 1928. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a little light pushing at the spine ends and a hint of rubbing to the lower corners. Mild toning to the text-block with light spotting to the prelims and offsetting to the blank end-papers. Small neat bookseller's sticker to the lower front pastedown otherwise from inscriptions. The scarce WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition. A remarkable survivor as the jacket is slightly larger than the book, and is particularly susceptible to wear. Light edge-wear with very mild toning to the spine and flap folds with a few odd light marks. Fading of the green lettering to the spine. The Ralph Keene wrapper artwork is exceptionally bright for its age and looks very striking in the removable Brodart archival cover. The author's very scarce second novel. Collectible. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.