1937 Pepita

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first edition, first impression of Vita Sackville-West's biography of her grandmother, Pepita de Oliva, and her mother, Lady Sackville.

In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.

Loosely inserted is a double sided leaf implying an association with Knole House - the ancestral home of the Sackvilles - and the letter writer.

The note reads 'Cabinet between door & fireplace in the King’s Bedroom (Silver Room) Knole. - In “ Avenue with pillars in centre pull out centre (2^nd) drawer on right – feel between & find another drawer – in it a piece of paper, on which is written ‘father, Mummy & Vita looked into this drawer April 29 1898’ signed Vita’. The slip is concluded with the names Mrs McClean and Mrs Greaves.

Pepita was a Romani Spanish dancer, who popularised Spanish flamenco dancing whilst performing across Europe. Despite an official marriage, Pepita had a long partnership with Lionel Sackville-West, with whom she had five children.

Illustrated with a portrait frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated, complete.

Four pages of publisher's adverts to the rear.

Perhaps the best known work from Bloomsbury Group figure, garden designer and writer Vita Sackville-West, well known today for her relationship with Virginia Woolf, and for providing the inspiration for Woolf's beloved novel 'Orlando'.