SACKVILLE-WEST, Vita. Twelve Days: An account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia. London: The Hogarth Press. 1928.
8vo. Original black and brown marbled cloth, gilt titles to spine; pp. viii, 9-143, [1, ads], with 32 illustrations from photographs; a little wear to spine ends and corners, light spotting to edges of text block; light spotting to initial and final leaves, but generally a very good copy.
First edition, first issue, of the author's account of a journey undertaken with her husband, Harold Nicolson, and three companions to the Bakhtiari Mountains west of Isfahan in Persia.
"Much of [Sackville-West's] best, most uninhibited, and least self-conscious writing was in travel pieces and essays, especially Twelve Days (1928), a book of literary sketches of the mountains of Persia, the result of a visit to her husband, who was posted to Tehran in 1925" (ODNB).
Woolmer 176.
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