In Your Garden and in Your Garden Again, Sackville-West, Vita. Published by The Folio Society, London, 2010. 8vo up to 9½” tall. xiv, 287pp. with colour and black-and-white photographs and illustrations. Introduction by Victoria Glendinning. Illustrated cloth boards with illustrated garden plans endpapers. Housed in a green slipcase. In fine, unread condition.
This edition gathers the celebrated gardening columns Sackville-West wrote for the Observer, paired with elegant color plates and black-and-white illustrations. Vita Sackville-West (1892-1962), was a prolific fiction writer, prize-winning poet, biographer, journalist and garden designer. She was married to diplomat and noted diarist, Harold Nicolson. Vita and Virginia Woolf had a singular intense and deep relationship over many years. Woolf’s fantasy-biography Orlando is based on Vita’s life and work. Also available: Pepita, Vita Sackville-West, Signed.
