Item #33336 CONSTANTINOPLE: EIGHT POEMS. Vita Sackville-West, Victoria.
CONSTANTINOPLE: EIGHT POEMS
CONSTANTINOPLE: EIGHT POEMS
CONSTANTINOPLE: EIGHT POEMS

CONSTANTINOPLE: EIGHT POEMS.

London: The Complete Press, 1915.

lst Edition. Soft cover. First Edition, VICTORIA SACKVILLE-WEST 1915. 8vo, pp.16, size: 9" x 5 7/8". In a blue/gray wrapper with yapped edges, black text and string binding. Wrapper has minor short split to the head and the foot of backstrip, with a loose string but still a rare and well-kept edition of her second book, in a mylar cover. Some toning to the wrapper and pages as shown.

She wrote this book of poetry while her husband Harold Nicolson was stationed in Constantinople and dedicated the book to him.

This true first edition includes DHJI-HAN-GHIR For "H.N." where as the later edition was dedicated and changed to "H". Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A2a.

Item #33336    Price: US$950.00