Twelve Days.: An account of a journey across the Bakhtiari Mountains in South-western Persia.

London: The Hogarth Press,, 1928. First edition, first impression, of the author's Persian travelogue. This copy has an appealing provenance, from the library of Michael Ernest Sadler, educational pioneer and historian, with his University College, Oxford bookplate. His son, the publisher and author Michael Thomas Sadleir, was a friend and correspondent of Sackville-West, and her husband's publisher at Constable. Michael Thomas Sadleir (formerly Sadler, 1888-1957) was novelist, book collector and bibliographer. He was appointed chairman at Constable & Co. in 1954. In 1919, Sadleir and Sackville-West met in Paris and made plans to start a literary Magazine, titled "The Critic"; she was to run the English section, and Sadleir the European. The project was never realised. Sadleir's father was also a keen collector, although chiefly of art and art books; a promoter of modern art in Great Britain, he was one of the first British collectors to acquire works by Paul Cézanne and Wassily Kandinsky. "Much of her 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). Octavo. Original marbled brown and black cloth, titles to spine in gilt. With dust jacket. With 32 plates. Small bokseller's ticket of Blackwell, Oxford, and ownership label with initial "P" on front pastedown. Cloth bright and sharp, a touch of rubbing to spine ends and corners, faint foxing to edges and outer leaves, otherwise generally clean; jacket somewhat rubbed and marked, small chips and short closed tears at extremities, couple of neat tape repairs on verso: a very good copy in like jacket. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A17.