Hardcover
Publisher: London: The Hogarth Press, 1930
Used: Good First Edition; missing original dustjacket. Original boards covered in faded and stained orange cloth, with some fraying along the spine; spine letters in gilt, top edge gilt on pages worn off; binding strong and hinges intact; small stain on back FEP and the prior free page. Otherwise all pages bound and in unmarked, untorn condition; some toning due to age on the edges of the pages. Octavo; 349 pages; includes facsimile dustjacket, pink and grey lettering; looks like the original dustjacket, but isn't. Still, nice to wrap around the book. Protected in vellum.
The Edwardians (1930) is one of Vita Sackville-West's later novels and a clear critique of the Edwardian aristocratic society as well as a reflection of her own childhood experiences. It belongs to the genre of the Bildungsroman and describes the development of the main character Sebastian within his social world, in this case the aristocracy of the early 20th century. (Wikipedia)
Victoria Mary, Lady Nicolson, CH (née Sackville-West; 9 March 1892 – 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer.
Sackville-West was a successful novelist, poet and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry and 13 novels during her lifetime. She was twice awarded the Hawthornden Prize for Imaginative Literature: in 1927 for her pastoral epic, The Land, and in 1933 for her Collected Poems. She was the inspiration for the protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, by her famous friend and lover, Virginia Woolf.