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Product Description: Vita Sackville–West’s brilliant portrait of fashionable English society at the height of the Edwardian age, first published in 1930.
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9780899685496, titled "The Edwardians" | Reprint edition (Buccaneer Books, September 1, 2007), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Vita Sackville–West’s brilliant portrait of fashionable English society at the height of the Edwardian age, first published in 1930.
9780884111405 | Amereon Ltd, August 1, 1989, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: A portrait of fashionable society at the height of an era, The Edwardians reveals, through the lives of its characters, all that was glamorous about the period—and all that was to lead to its downfall.
9780848264185 | Reprint edition (Norwood Editions, June 1, 1986), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Vita Sackville–West’s brilliant portrait of fashionable English society at the height of the Edwardian age, first published in 1930.

Paperback:

9781406713220, titled "The Edwardians" | Hesperides Pr, November 30, 2006, cover price $30.45
9780860683599, titled "The Edwardians" | Reprint edition (Virago Pr, October 1, 2003), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: A portrait of fashionable society at the height of an era, The Edwardians reveals, through the lives of its characters, all that was glamorous about the period—and all that was to lead to its downfall.
9780380003266 | Reissue edition (Avon Books, November 1, 1983), cover price $3.95 | About this edition: Sebastion, and his sister, Viola, are encouraged to give up their self-indulgent style of life by an earnest explorer

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Product Description: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.
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9781432500467 | Kessinger Pub Co, January 30, 2007, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

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Product Description: 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...read more
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9780711223547 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, April 1, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer.
9780753154632 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, February 1, 2000), cover price $32.50 | About this edition: From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer.

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9780753154755 | Large print edition (Isis Large Print Books, June 1, 1999), cover price $22.01 | About this edition: From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer.

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Product Description: From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer. These were later collected in a set of books published between 1951 and 1958. Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, intense passion for her subject and lively literary flair are timeless and inspirational, making these books essential for any serious gardener's bookshelf...read more
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9780711223578 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, April 1, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer.

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Product Description: 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 making these garden writing classics essential for any serious gardener's bookshelf...read more
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9780711223554 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, April 1, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer.

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Product Description: From the author of The Land, this poem is a much more personal and symbolic offering. Set against the backdrop of war, the seasons in the garden represent the seasons of life.
By Nigel Nicolson (introduced by) and V. Sackville-West
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9780711223585 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, April 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From the author of The Land, this poem is a much more personal and symbolic offering.

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Product Description: From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer. Her writings were later collected into a set of books published between 1951 and 1958. Vita's extensive gardening knowledge, iher ntense passion for her subject and her lively literary flair make these books essential for any serious gardener's bookshelf...read more
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9780711223561 | Frances Lincoln Ltd, April 1, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: From 1946, the poet and novelist Vita Sackville-West wrote a gardening column in the Observer.

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The first collection of writings by the seminal modernist introduces readers to Sackville-West's important contribution to modern literature, including poetry, essays, travel narratives, a dream notebook, journal entries, and excerpts from her novels.
By Nigel Nicolson (foreword by) and V. Sackville-West
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9780312237608 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, June 29, 2002), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A collection of writings by the seminal modernist includes poetry, essays, travel narratives, a dream notebook, journal entries, and excerpts from her novels.

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This 1931 novel focuses on the dreams of seventeen-year-old Lady Slane to be an artist, her years of marriage and motherhood, and her discovery in widowhood of a new passion
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Hardcover:

9780899667454 | Buccaneer Books, July 1, 1990, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Echoing the themes in A Room of One's Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty-eight-year-old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel.

Paperback:

9780881847949 | Mti rep edition (Carroll & Graf Pub, December 1, 1991), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: This 1931 novel focuses on the dreams of seventeen-year-old Lady Slane to be an artist, her years of marriage and motherhood, and her discovery in widowhood of a new passion
9780385279765 | Reprint edition (Doubleday, July 1, 1984), cover price $8.95 | About this edition: This 1931 novel focuses on the dreams of seventeen-year-old Lady Slane to be an artist, her years of marriage and motherhood, and her discovery in widowhood of a new passion
9780860683582 | Little Brown Uk, May 1, 1983, cover price $15.99 | About this edition: In 1860, as a young girl of 17, Lady Slane nurtures a secret, burning ambition—to become an artist.

Cassette/Spoken Word:

9780745163536 | Chivers Audio Books, August 1, 1987, cover price $54.95 | About this edition: Echoing the themes in A Room of One's Own by her great friend Virginia Woolf, Vita Sackville-West remaps the destiny of the gentle, gracious eighty-eight-year-old Lady Slane in this classic modern novel.

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9788472232846 | Tusquets Editor, January 1, 2002, cover price $24.50

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This beautiful collection of correspondence reconstructs the lesbian romance between two literary greats, featuring five hundred letters spanning twenty years. (view table of contents)
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9781573441360 | Cleis Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This collection of letters offers a candid, intriguing record of the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf as it documents their mutual relationship from 1922 to 1941.

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Product Description: Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. At fourteen, Sackville-West published her first book, and at fourteen Joan of Arc first heard the voices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780802138163 | Grove Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years.

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Product Description: 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 his job on a Fleet Street paper, he takes a passage on a cruise ship where he knows that Laura, a beautiful and intelligent widow whom he secretly admires, will be a fellow passenger...read more
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9780860685784 | Little Brown Uk, December 1, 1985, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Edmund Carr is at sea in more ways than one.
9780140161076 | Penguin USA, September 1, 1985, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Edmund Carr, a middle-aged journalist, learns that he will die soon, and decides to quit his job and take an ocean cruise, knowing that Laura, an attractive widow he admires will be on board

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Product Description: Practical gardening advice mingles charmingly with poetic descriptions of the plants that Vita Sackville-West admired. These essays, first published in the London Observer more than 50 years ago, reflect the author's experience in England with her garden at Sissinghurst Castle; however, all of the plants are grown in America and suited to large sections of the American climate...read more
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9781572700949 | Audio Partners, February 1, 1999, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Practical gardening advice mingles charmingly with poetic descriptions of the plants that Vita Sackville-West admired.

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Product Description: Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando. The story of Sackville-West's marriage to Harold Nicolson is one of intrigue and bewilderment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780226583570 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 1998), cover price $17.50 | About this edition: Vita Sackville-West, novelist, poet, and biographer, is best known as the friend of Virginia Woolf, who transformed her into an androgynous time-traveler in Orlando.

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In a collection of fiction, essays, poetry, journal entries, and letters, authors including Colette, Gertrude Jekyll, Nancy Mitford, Edith Warton, and Andrew Marvel reflect on the wonders of gardening, from the joys of weeding and the pitfalls of roses to the trials of gardening in a cold climate.
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9781565111752 | Penguin/Highbridge, January 1, 1997, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Offers a collection of fiction, essays, poetry, journal entries, and letters on the wonders of gardening, from the joys of weeding and the pitfalls of roses to the trials of gardening in a cold climate, by authors including Colette, Nancy Mitford, and Andrew Marvel.

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9780848811488 | Amereon Ltd, December 1, 1996, cover price $26.95
9780897607834 | Telegraph Books, December 1, 1984, cover price $40.00

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Product Description: Part of the "Writers' Britain" series, first published in the 1940s. This book offers a brief history of the English country house from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, and of the people who built and lived in them from common squires to kings and queens.
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9781853752308 | 2 revised edition (Prion Books, November 1, 1996), cover price $11.95 | About this edition: Part of the "Writers' Britain" series, first published in the 1940s.

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Product Description: In "Some Flowers", first published in 1937, Vita Sackville-West took the step of choosing 25 of her favourite flowers and describing their appearance, origins and characteristics - the best ways to grow them - in a series of expressive pen portraits...read more
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9780810938373 | Reprint edition (Harry N Abrams Inc, September 1, 1993), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Twenty-seven watercolor plates complement a gardening book in which the acclaimed novelist, poet, and biographer selects twenty-five of her favorite flowers and describes their appearance, origins, characteristics, and the best ways to grow them.

Paperback:

9781857936063 | Trafalgar Square, September 1, 1996, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: In "Some Flowers", first published in 1937, Vita Sackville-West took the step of choosing 25 of her favourite flowers and describing their appearance, origins and characteristics - the best ways to grow them - in a series of expressive pen portraits.

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Two short novels tell the tales of Arthur Lomax, whose life is alarmingly transformed by a pair of blue spectacles, and Peregrine Chase, whose life is beautifully transformed by a Tudor house he inherits
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9780745127927 | Large print edition (Chivers, June 1, 1995), cover price $10.01

Paperback:

9780786204847, titled "Seducers in Ecuador & the Heir" | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $19.95
9780745128603 | Largeprint edition (Thorndike Pr, June 1, 1995), cover price $10.01
9780140161946, titled "Seducers in Ecuador and the Heir" | Reissue edition (Penguin USA, October 1, 1989), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Two short novels tell the tales of Arthur Lomax, whose life is alarmingly transformed by a pair of blue spectacles, and Peregrine Chase, whose life is beautifully transformed by a Tudor house he inherits

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Product Description: In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran. Her route was deliberately slow-paced - she stopped in Egypt, where she sailed up the Nile to Luxor; and India, where she visited New Delhi and Agra before sailing across the Persian Gulf to Iraq and on through bandit-infested mountains to Teheran...read more
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9780060974589 | Reprint edition (Perennial, June 1, 1992), cover price $11.00 | About this edition: In 1926 Vita Sackville-West travelled to Iran to visit her husband, Harold Nicolson, who was serving as a diplomat in Teheran.

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A collection of correspondence between the poet-novelist and her diplomat-politician-author husband spans fifty years to recount their turbulent and open marriage, Vita's lesbian affair with Violet Trefusis, their colorful circle of friends, and more. 25,000 first printing.
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9780399136665 | Putnam Pub Group, June 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A collection of correspondence between the poet-novelist and her diplomat-politician-author husband spans fifty years to recount their remarkable marriage

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9780707801322 | 5 sub edition (Trafalgar Square, May 1, 1992), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years. At fourteen, Sackville-West published her first book, and at fourteen Joan of Arc first heard the voices...read more
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9780385421096 | Reprint edition (Doubleday, October 1, 1991), cover price $19.00 | About this edition: Vita Sackville-West wrote Saint Joan of Arc in 1936 at the age of forty-four, and had, at that point, already been writing for thirty years.

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Presents two long poems describing, season by season, the rituals and tasks of farming in the English countryside
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9780863502729 | Viking Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents two long poems describing, season by season, the rituals and tasks of farming in the English countryside

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