[Sackville-West, Vita], Brown, Jane.

Vita’s Other World: A Gardening Biography of V. Sackville-West.

London etc., Penguin Books, 1987. 19 cm x 24.5 cm. 240 pages. Original softcover. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

Includes for example the following essays: Knole: The Mighty Shadow in the Garden’s Dip / The Grand Tourists / An Elk-hound and a Rose Bush: Long Barn 1915-25 / Paradise: Persia 1926 and 1927 / The Constant Lure: The Land and Long Barn 1927-30 / The Castle and the Rose 1930-39 / The War and The Garden 1939-45 / Vita’s England / Blundering Into Fame 1945-54 / Another World Than This 1954-62 etc.

″In making Sissinghurst, Vita Sackville-West created one of the finest and most famous gardens in England and placed herself among the great gardeners of this century. This book traces Vita’s development as a gardener, leading the reader through the past of her beloved Knole, her marriage, travels to Constantinople and Persia, her first garden at Long Barn and finally to Sissinghurst Castle where, with her husband Harold Nicolson, she designed and made a garden of outstanding beauty.” (Amazon)

• Keywords: Country House · Country Life · Garden · Garden Collection – Ann Geneva · Garden Design – Collection · Gardening · Library & Collection Building
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780140093544
• Inventory Number: 72341AB