Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-West
by Brown, Jane
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- as new
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 1985. Book. As New. Cloth. First Edition. Quarto, green cloth covered boards. 240 pp. including index, bibliography and notes. A pictorial biography of English poet Victoria Sackville-West (Vita) through the lens of the famous gardens that were the trademark of her domestic life with husband Harold Nicholson. Beautifully illustrated throughout with black and white and full color photographs, many vintage photographs of Vita, her family and her illustrious friends from the aristocracy of society and poetry and her English country houses. A very tight, clean, fresh bright, unmarked and unread volume in a crisp, bright, clean, glossy, unclipped dust jacket. Fine in fine dust jacket. AS NEW..
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- Brillig Books
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- 08924
- Title
- Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-West
- Author
- Brown, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1985
- Keywords
- KNOLE, SACKVILLE, GARDEN, GARDENING, HORTICULTURE, INFORMAL, ENGLISH, ENGLAND, MANOR, NICOLSON, SISSINGHURST, COUNTRY, HOUSE, MANSION, HAROLD, VITA, BIOGRAPHY, BIOGRAPHICAL, PHOTOGRAPHY, PHOTOGRAPHIC, BRITISH, GAY, LESBIAN, LITERATURE, POET, POETRY, WOMAN
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