Solitude.
by SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, The Hogarth Press, 1938. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; light toning to leaves, slight offsetting to endpapers, otherwise unmarked internally; publisher's orange cloth, gilt lettering to spine, spine ends slightly bumped, with the dustjacket, slightly toned and marked, spine slightly darkened, spine ends chipped with two short closed tears, overall a very good copy.
Solitude is a long, elegiac poem and was seen as the successor to Vita Sackville-West's award-winning poem The Land (1927).
Solitude is a long, elegiac poem and was seen as the successor to Vita Sackville-West's award-winning poem The Land (1927).
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 108395
- Title
- Solitude.
- Author
- SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, The Hogarth Press, 1938.
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