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London: William Heinemann LTD, 1955. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8" by 5.5". George Plank. A lovely new edition of Vita Sackville-West's beloved pastoral poem, with a signed letter from the author loosely inserted. Letter on Sissinghurst letterhead loosely inserted, '27th January 1944, Dear Mrs.Dunn, Very many thanks for your letter. I quite agree with you that a very interesting book could be written on the subject you suggest, but I feel that it would need enormous research into the activities which have actually been carried out already by women and that I therefore should not be qualified to write it. It would be much more the subject for somebody like Mrs.Strachey who wrote a history of the women's movement called "The Cause". I am afraid that Mrs. Strachey has recently died. Still there must be other women who have specialised in the subject. I see you say that you were on the Letitia going to Greece and wish so much that you had introduced yourself then. How often I think of…

Vita Sackville-West's 'The Land' is a celebrated long poem published in 1926, admired for its rich description of the English countryside and agricultural life.