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The book titled Vita and Harold: The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Harold by the author Nigel Nicolson. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about...

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Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one. An eminent journalist and self-made man, he has recently discovered that he has only a short time to live. Leaving...

'How very odd it must be to be a dog...' Over the years Vita Sackville-West had many dogs, including Cocker Spaniel Pippin (famously the mother of Virginia Woolf's Spaniel, Pinka),...

The radical, relatable, and playful love story between two extraordinary twentieth-century writers, revealed in selected letters and diary entries. 'I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed...

Condition remarks: Condition: fair to poor. Jacket: No dust jacket. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. At the crossroads of biography and memoir, Pepita unfolds...

From 1946 to 1957, Vita Sackville-West, the poet, bestselling author of All Passion Spent and maker of Sissinghurst, wrote a weekly column in the Observer depicting her life at Sissinghurst,...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good — no loose pages or broken binding. One of the most candid...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good, worn/faded (refer to image). Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few literary marriages were as turbulent, unconventional,...

In an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, Daughters of Britannia offers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before. Lady Mary...

The captivating original English translation of Rilke's landmark poetry cycle, by Vita and Edward Sackville-West In 1931, Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press published a beautiful edition of Rainer Maria...

Taken from gardening books, novels and poems by women published between 1860 and 1935, this book reveals a passion for gardening. There is practical advice from gardeners such as Gertrude...

Some, like Lady Hester Stanhope and the Hon. Jane Digby, were exiles from 19th-century high society; others were footloose adventurers, like Richard Burton and T.E. Lawrence. There were distinguished literary...

Virginia Woolf's playful mock 'biography' of a chameleonic historical figure, written for her intimate friend Vita Sackville-West Orlando has always been an outsider... His longing for passion, adventure and fulfilment...

The life of Gordon Langley Hall was full of mystery and riddled with rumour and scandal. The illegitimate son of two servants at Sissinghurst Castle, (home of Vita Sackville-West and...

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Secondhand Large Format Book Bargain Book Box SP4069 Twelve large-format books covering architecture, gardens, cities, cathedrals and European art history — ideal for the coffee table or the bookshelf of...

Author: Claire Takacs Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 Captured in stunning detail by a world-class photographer, Dreamscapes features 70 of the most spectacular gardens in the world, all photographed...

Or- An Autobiography explores in poetry fluidities of self, body and imagination. Or- An Autobiography explores fluidities of self, body and imagination. Its central book-length poem 'The Or Tree' is...

Author: Lady Jane Wellesley Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 384 Reissued for the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo. The first Duke of Wellington's victory at Waterloo...

Author: Christopher Lloyd Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 'The best informed, liveliest and most innovative gardening writer of our times' GUARDIAN 'Christopher Lloyd ranks with Gertrude Jekyll and Vita...

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A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacketPages: GoodCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageIn the gaslit drawing rooms and rain-soaked countryside of Victorian England, Charlotte Mortimer navigates a world crackling with...

To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionist depiction of a family holiday, and a meditation on a marriage, on parenthood and childhood, on grief, tyranny and bitterness. Its...

Virginia Woolf's pioneering novel about a time-traveling sixteenth-century nobleman who wakes up in the body of a woman, with a new foreword by Andrea Lawlor, author of Paul Takes the...

The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer 'Thoroughly entertaining... Knights expertly evokes this hedonistic period' The Times 'A picturesque portrayal of a world that sounds as thoroughly maniacal as it...

An elegant reissue of a classic book from one of the twentieth century's greatest garden writers.This landmark work on creating a garden was first published in 1956 and has rarely...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: YellowedMarkings: Previous ownerFew architectural treasures encapsulate the grandeur and romance of the Italian Renaissance quite like the storied villas of Tuscany, and Harold Acton...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodFrom the gilded halls of the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek in Vienna emerges one of the most breathtaking tributes to the art of botanical...

Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: Wear and tear with damagePages: GoodMarkings: SignedCondition remarks: DJ edgeworn with rubbing along the spine. Some silverfish damage on fep. Set against the sweeping, sun-scorched landscapes of...

Edition: 1st ed., Condition remarks:Book: FairJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Boards: worn with some stains; light bumping on...