Black lamb and grey falcon : the record of a journey through Yugoslavia in 1937 /
Rebecca West (London 1892 - London 1983)
Category
Books
Date
1941
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sissinghurst Castle Garden, Kent
NT 3210186
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill., maps ; 22 cm. Loosely inserted: v.1: typescript letter signed from Rebecca West to Harold Nicolson; headed: Ibstone House, Ibstone, ... Bucks; dated: 16th January, 1942; re: Lindbergh practical joke, Prince Paul of Yugoslavia, and enclosed letter addressed to "Miss West", that she assumes was intended for "Vita"; this typescript letter signed, headed: Ursula Bloom, Gernon Elms, Letchworth; dated: January the first [1942?], requesting plant and autograph for literary garden; v.2: autograph letter signed from Rebecca West to Harold Nicolson; headed: Ibstone House [etc]; dated: March 13th 1942; re: her approval of him as "a civilised being" and life during wartime. Provenance: pencil text marking, with rear endpaper annotation and page references, in hands of both Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West. Binding: green publisher's cloth, gold lettered spine.
Makers and roles
Rebecca West (London 1892 - London 1983)