In Your Garden by V. Sackville-West - 1953

Paperback. Very Good.

Paperback. Acceptable.

ISIS Large Print Books, 2000-02. Hardcover. Used: Good.

Frances Lincoln 2004. Octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

London. Michael Joseph. 1951 1st edition 2nd impression. 8.25 x 5.5 inches. In grey cloth covers with gilt to spine. With illustrated dustwrapper. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper. (d/w. Spine slightly darkened with a few small nicks edges of spine. Not price clipped. With protective plastic wrap). Attractive Private bookplate (M.J. Proctor) to front free endpaper. Else a clean and tight copy. 257 pp. With b/w plates. The author’s first gardening book, from articles published in The Observer. A month by month guide to plants and work to be done in the garden. Includes are and earlier book, ‘A lLittle Flower Book’, a seventeenth century treatise on the flower garden ‘Some Flowers’, and an article on Hidcote Manor. The appendix gives a short list of Nurserymen.

London: Michael Joseph, 1951. Spine sunned, slightly cocked, spine sprung, however, apart from ink inscrip. to f-fep, internally sound, pp clean and bright.. First Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 12mo.

London: Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2004. Book. As New. Hardcover. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Frances Lincoln edition, 2006. 8" x 5 3/8", 237 pages, appendix giving short list of nurserymen. From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer. The columns were later collected into a set of books published between 1951 and 1958. Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, her intense passion for her subject and her lively literary flair make these classics of garden writing essential for any serious gardener's bookshelf. Volume 1 in a series of four anthologies reproducing the lively gardening columns by Vita Sackville-West. This volume covers 1946-1950. Hb, virtually as new, in attractive dw, designed by Paul Holmes, slight fading to the spine, hence fine rather than as new. A very nice copy. .

London: Michael Joseph. Bound in light grey/green cloth with red titles to spine, this dated 1951 hardcover Second Impression is VG in Good jacket (price clipped). 237pp, with frontispiece & plates, presents the lively gardening columns in the Observer by Vita Sackville-West. Jacket is browned; rubbed, creased, chipped and nicked along the top; small closed tear top of spine; bottom inch of spine is missing; corners are rubbed and worn. Boards are faded/browned along edges, as is spine. Foxing to the fore-edge of text block, and top edge is grey. Internally foxing on half a dozen pages or so, mostly at front and end, otherwise reasonably clean inside, for age. . Very Good. Hardback. Second Impression. 1951.

Oxenwood Press, 1996. 1st Thus. Hardcover. As New/As New. Octavo. 1st printing. An unread book.

Frances Lincoln, London, 2004. Later Printing. Hardcover. Fine Condition/Fine. Dust Jacket is in fine condition without tears or chips or other damage. Dust Jack in mylar guard. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Gardening; ISBN/EAN: 9780711223547. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 5155. . 9780711223547