Orchard and Vineyard.
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: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd,, 1921. First edition, first impression, in the uncommon dust jacket, of the author's third book of poetry. Octavo. Original cream cloth-backed blue paper boards, printed paper title label to spine and front cover, leaves uncut and unopened. With dust jacket. Light toning to board edges, still bright, a little foxing edges, otherwise internally clean. A very good copy in the slightly tanned dust jacket, with a few minor chips and short closed tears to extremities, unclipped, overall a well-preserved example of this fragile jacket. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A6.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 145988
- Title
- Orchard and Vineyard.
- Author
- SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd,
- Date Published
- 1921
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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- 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...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- 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...
- 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....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...