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No Signposts in the Sea
Sackville-West, Vita
First edition. Michael Joseph, London, 1961. Hardcover. Binding is worn at ends of spine. Dust jacket is price-clipped, very lightly worn on edges and has 1 cm closed tear on top left corner of cover.
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A gorgeous first edition of Sackville-West's last novel, told through the journal entries of a man who knows he has little time to live, and falls in love with someone he can't have when he embarks for a sea voyage. A devastating reflection on mortality and longing.
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Vita Sackville-West
A prolific English novelist, poet, journalist, and renowned garden designer, often remembered for her close relationship with Virginia Woolf, who was famously inspired by her when writing Orlando. Born into the aristocratic Sackville family at Knole House, her deep connection to her ancestral home—which she was unable to inherit as a woman—profoundly shaped her literary concerns and contributed to her distinctive perspective on class, privilege, and gender. While her prose often retained a more traditional narrative style than her modernist contemporaries, her originality lay in her unflinching exploration of unconventional female desires and relationships, complex psychological states, and the clash between societal expectations and individual freedom.
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