Vita Sackville-West – Twelve Days – First Edition 1928
£150.00
A first edition, first printing of Twelve Days published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London in 1928. Bound in the publisher’s original marbled cloth, with gilt titling to the spine, light pushing to spine tips and two small surface spots to hinge of spine and front board, toning and spotting to the text block, spotting to prelims, an Ex Libris bookplate to the front paste-down.
Twelve Days by Vita Sackville-West is a travel memoir recounting her 1926 journey through Persia, now Iran, with her husband, Harold Nicolson. Written with elegance and sharp observation, it combines landscape, hardship, politics, and personal reflection. Sackville-West describes deserts, mountains, villages, officials and encounters along the route, capturing both romance and discomfort. The book reveals her aristocratic confidence, literary eye, and fascination with remote places, while also reflecting attitudes of its time.
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A first edition, first printing of Twelve Days published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London in 1928. Bound in the publisher’s original marbled cloth, with gilt titling to the spine, light pushing to spine tips and two small surface spots to hinge of spine and front board, toning and spotting to the text block, spotting to prelims, an Ex Libris bookplate to the front paste-down.
Twelve Days by Vita Sackville-West is a travel memoir recounting her 1926 journey through Persia, now Iran, with her husband, Harold Nicolson. Written with elegance and sharp observation, it combines landscape, hardship, politics, and personal reflection. Sackville-West describes deserts, mountains, villages, officials and encounters along the route, capturing both romance and discomfort. The book reveals her aristocratic confidence, literary eye, and fascination with remote places, while also reflecting attitudes of its time.
