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The Edwardians.
by SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press,, 1930. First edition, first impression, in the uncommon dust jacket. This novel was her greatest commercial success. According to Leonard Woolf, "Inside Vita was an honest, simple, sentimental, romantic, naive, and competent writer. When she let all this go off altogether in a novel about high life, she produced in The Edwardians a kind of period piece and a real best-seller" (cited in Stevens, p. 67). Octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Two ownership stamps on front free endpaper of Lynn E. Prasse Bittel. Spot of wear and splash mark to lower edges, free endpapers browned; unclipped jacket spine mildly toned, chipping at edges, with small segment of loss to foot of spine, folds neatly reinforced on verso, affecting one letter: a very good copy in like jacket. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A20; Woolmer 235b. Michael Stevens, V. Sackville-West: A Critical Biography, 1974.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172311
- Title
- The Edwardians.
- Author
- SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press,
- Date Published
- 1930
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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