"Outside of a dog, man's best friend is a book. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx

See below our stock of Vita Sackville-West First Editions, fine bindings, sets and other collectible material.
London: the Hogarth Press, 1937. [Biography] FIRST EDITION, First Impression. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.282 [6]. With 16 black and white illustrated plates, including a frontispiece. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spine. With the typographic dust-jacket, illustrated with the sole of Pepita's shoe, priced at 10/6 to spine..... More
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1936. [Biography] LEATHER-BOUND FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.[2] xv; 436 [4]. With nine illustrations including frontispiece and four maps, one folding. Recently re-bound in burgundy half calf, with raised bands, gilt titles to spine, and matching cloth over boards. A little light spotting to preliminaries and..... More
London: Cobden-Sanderson, 1932. [Childhood Anthology] DELUXE FIRST EDITION. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.viii, 124 [4]. In contemporary full vellum with gilt titles to spine. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed. Binder's label for Leighton Straker Bookbinding Co. to copyright page. A little toning to edges, and some light marks and discolouration..... More