Author: SACKVILLE-WEST Vita
Title: In your Garden [with] In Your Garden Again [with] More for your Garden [with] Even More for your Garden. VITA'S 'GARDEN' BOOKS COMPLETE IN DUSTWRAPPERS
Description: Michael Joseph,, [1951-58]. 4 vols., 8vo., First Edition (save first volume), with frontispieces and 28 plates, some light offsetting from fold-ins to free endpapers; cloth (grey/green/red/green respectively), gilt backs, coloured tops, fore-edges lightly dust-soiled, small mark on front panel of dustwrapper to third volume, small loss (affecting lettering) and two small labels at backstrip of dustwrapper to fourth volume else a very good, bright, clean set in dustwrapper. With personal bookplate on front paste-down of first and fourth volumes. Complete set of Vita's immensely popular garden books. The set comprises 'In Your Garden' (second impression, 1951), 'In Your Garden Again' (1953), 'More for your Garden' (1955) and 'Even More for your Garden' (1958). COMPLETE SETS IN THIS CONDITION ARE VARY SCARCE. Cross & Hulme A48, A51(a), A53(a), A56(a); Gretton, 44, 47, 48, 50.

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