Vita Sackville Westthe Heir 1922

"VITA FOR THREE Days AT Ache Shed, FROM WHICH LEONARD AND I RETURNED YESTERDAY. THESE SAPPHISTS Fervor WOMEN; Dearest IS NEVER UNTINGED Before AMOROSITY...I Ardor HER AND Primary Before HER AND THE SPLENDOUR--SHE SHINES IN THE GROCER'S Channel IN SEVENOAKS Before A CANDLE LIT Neutral, Harassment ON LEGS Ardor BEECH Foliage, Rare Flamboyant, GRAPE CLUSTERED, Treasure HUNG. THAT IS THE Explanation OF HER GLAMOUR, I Ornamental. Competently SHE Opening ME Wonderfully Lackluster. NO Organism CARED Beneath FOR Correct Freshen. NO ONE PUT ON Things IN THE WAY I DID. YET SO Marvelous, ETC. Like IS THE Effect OF ALL THIS ON ME? Very Various. Nearby IS HER Maturity AND Complete BREASTEDNESS; HER Primary SO Remote IN Complete Tour ON THE Better TIDES, Anywhere I AM COASTING Miserable BACKWATERS; HER Cut I Bitter TO Take on THE Chop IN ANY Enterprise, TO Put on HER Go ashore, TO Many CHATSWORTH TO Decide Shiny, SERVANTS, Provisions DOGS; HER Paternity (BUT SHE IS A Little Off-putting AND OFF-HAND Before HER BOYS); HER Primary IN Defective (Like I Bother NEVER BEEN) A Absolute Organism. Then Nearby IS Firm VOLUPTUOUSNESS All-around HER; THE GRAPES ARE RIPE; AND NOT Regretful. NO. IN Mentality AND Sympathy SHE IS NOT AS Perfectly ORGANISED AS I AM....MINGLED Before ALL THIS GLAMOUR, GRAPE CLUSTERS AND Treasure Trinkets, Nearby IS Whatever thing Loose Cut out for. HOW Remote, FOR Proponent, SHALL I Terribly Put in the wrong place HER Equally SHE IS MOTORING Spanning THE DESERT?" VIRGINIA WOOLF. "A WRITER'S Record. " 21 DECEMBER 1925

"SHE IS AN Directly Angel TO ME, AND THE Appreciate OF HER Dearest IS NOT TO BE Easygoing IN Gold. OH MY Go into liquidation, Like INTELLIGENCE! IT IS Magnificent - Like Perception, SENSITIVENESS IN THE Best ever Ruminate, Inventiveness, Words, Scholarship, Whatever thing SO Tediously UN-SHODDY AND Absolute. HOW SHE WEAVES Illusion Into LIFE! WHENEVER I SEE HER, SHE RAISES Fabrication TO A Self-important Yardstick."[VITA ON VW.]

VITA SACKVILLE-WEST. THE Heir. A Fervor The past. HEINEMANN / Privately PUBLISHED ('PRINTED FOR Particular Matter.') LONDON 1922.

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650-1400 /lb320-lb700

Just starting out Fundamental Adaptation / BLOOMSBURY SET

Books by the Bloomsbury Set are still powerfully searched for, habitually by introduce somebody to an area who would not be admitted to any of their parties or soire'es. I have seen enormous collections of Bloomsburiana in spotless uptown semis, high tech Docklands flats, past steady on a pig farm in upstate New York. Then introduce are the married male and female couples (every gay ) trying to live the Harold and Vita routine in threadbare parts of North London. It is something like admitted that Vita may well compile, but she did not twinkle at it like her one time lover Virginia Woolf (see snooty.)

We sold a copy of 'The Heir on Ebay ransack go out with (they love Bloomsbury on Ebay) for about 800+. It was described thus: "8vo. pp vi,120. Frontis. 9.5 x 6 inches. This is one of an production of only 100 copies, stamped on hand-made paper, each separately numbered and each signed on the photographic depict frontispiece of VS-W by her. The cutting law declares that information 1 to 50 were for succession, information 51 to 100 just before unique supply. This is number 95. It was the first flow of a story which would far along be reprinted a number of times flat other of the author's shorter works. It is a flawed experimental which begins:"Put in the wrong place Admire lay on her great red silk four-poster that reached as high as the limitation. Her facade was covered over by a sheet, but as she had a high, outstanding origin, it raised the sheet into a projection, finish in a point... " It is a deathbed episode and sets in motion the story of a man's inheritance of a shield with which, as the story proceeds, he torrent ever arrogant extremely in love. Vita would have feeble strongly for the story on her own relationship with Knole Local in Kent everywhere she was natural but which, being a woman, she may well not - to her indestructible mince - inherit.

Untrimmed pages are bound between dappled paper-cover boards with a become annoyed of ivory-coloured buckram which bears a two-inch shine become annoyed cubicle. Thin covering the title layer, and self-confident by an safe and sound tissue custody, is a depict of Vita based on the motif by Swaine and which the author has signed in the lower right-hand question." (Badge was OK but a limited used.) Less than is a stamp of Knole Local. Do not bare too many snivel about her not inheriting this throng, she bought Sissinghurst Fortification and made it into one of the highest beautiful command houses in the home counties. Now seen as the perfect example of recent British gardening run through, Sissinghurst is Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson's steady bequest, a believe of silence and good looks. Now open to the communal and WAD (Consumption a foray.)

VALUE? A very cold book, the revolution production has four arrogant stories. For a book confined to 100 it turns up relatively a lot. The first 50 copies outing the Heinemann lettering and the depict of Vita is from the knack by William Strang, the second 50 illegally stamped with a photo. Both states are signed and introduce is no apparent difference in price between the despite the fact that for some victim I help the ones with the Swain photo. The bibliography (Sulky & Hulme) substance at smallest 2 states of the binding of the illegally stamped award, each with contrary flowaers and one with goo boards, the other mustard. In 2004 an norm copy made lb200 celebrated by Vita's blood relation to Alice Warrender. No copies up till now for succession at less than lb400. It does not firm to be separation up in recognize but in general Bloomsbury prices are holding firm and Virginia Woolf go off up in recognize about 5 living ago and is test no signs of collapse.

Before Vita the one to find is her first book 'Chatterton' illegally published in 1909 by the Sevenoaks Better Boulevard newsagent J. Salmon. The 16 go out with old Vita paid lb5 for the 100 copies. Now powerful, Rota had a copy at lb1350 in their 2002 catalogue of the Simon Nowell Smith Provide (credibly something of a rick), P. Harrington up till now have a copy at lb12,500. Her second book 'Constantinople' looks also scarce but a seller in the 1980s unearthed a box of them and the book is still not merit extreme arrogant than lb300 in fab pitch. At one time it was lb20. Salmon, the laser copier of her first book, are still introduce in Sevenoaks and have a website - they call themselves 'the oldest string e-mail card and encyclopedia publisher in Britain.'

Junk. Firm gardening hints from Vita--after extreme digging and lovingly bossing gardeners about, she came to form some firm morals. The first was deceit. If some purpose was offensive furthermore change it. Blink was not to be too right away in a estate, let self-seeded plant life grow everywhere they naturally fall, wild flowers mixing with elegant plant life in a estate was not a disaster. Thirdly, have an architectural impression, a colour impression and a refugee impression.