Vita Sackville-West — Heritage

London, W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1919. First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of Vita Sackville-West's first novel, Heritage. The first edition of the work. Scarce. The author's first novel, telling the story of Ruth Pennistan, a farmer's daughter born in Kent with Spanish gypsy heritage. The telling work mirrors Sackville-West's own family, later explored in her noted biographical work 'Pepita&apos. Vita Sackville-West was an English poet, novelist and horticulturalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She is also known as a member of the Bloomsbury Group and androgynous protagonist of Orlando: A Biography, written by her friend and lover Virginia Woolf. A scarce copy of the first work by an important literary figure. In the publisher's original red cloth binding. Externally smart with fading to spine and board extremities. Minor splitting to the joints and slight bumping to head and tail of the cloth resulting in minor loss to cloth. Bookseller label to rear pastedown. Offsetting to endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .