SCOTT, Geoffrey. The Portrait of Zélide . London: Constable & Co., 1925. 8° (220 x 140mm.). 4 plates. Original cloth (soiled), t.e.g. Number 2 of 25 copies on Japon vellum signed by the author, this inscribed to 'B.M.' Provenance : Lady Sackville, with an autograph letter signed presenting the volume tipped in.; Knole bookplate. -- CURIE, Eve. Madame Curie . Paris: Gallimard, 1938. 8° (205 x 140mm.). Portrait. Original wrappers (torn). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY from the author to Violet Trefusis.-- NICOLSON, Harold. Diplomacy . London: OUP, 1942. 12° (162 x 104mm.). Original cloth. Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author to Violet Trefusis.-- MAUGHAM, William Somerset. Creature of Circumstance . London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1947. 8° (184 x 122mm.). Original cloth (slightly soiled and faded). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author to Violet Trefusis. Geoffrey Scott in his letter presenting this book to Vita Sackville-West's mother, says that is is giving only three copies of the de luxe edition as presents, adding that he is giving to to Vita to take to her. Scott was for a time Vita's lover, apparently the only other masculine relationship known apart from her husband, Harold Nicolson. (4)
SCOTT, Geoffrey. The Portrait of Zélide . London: Constable & Co., 1925. 8° (220 x 140mm.). 4 plates. Original cloth (soiled), t.e.g. Number 2 of 25 copies on Japon vellum signed by the author, this inscribed to 'B.M.' Provenance : Lady Sackville, with an autograph letter signed presenting the volume tipped in.; Knole bookplate. -- CURIE, Eve. Madame Curie . Paris: Gallimard, 1938. 8° (205 x 140mm.). Portrait. Original wrappers (torn). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY from the author to Violet Trefusis.-- NICOLSON, Harold. Diplomacy . London: OUP, 1942. 12° (162 x 104mm.). Original cloth. Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author to Violet Trefusis.-- MAUGHAM, William Somerset. Creature of Circumstance . London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1947. 8° (184 x 122mm.). Original cloth (slightly soiled and faded). Provenance : PRESENTATION COPY inscribed by the author to Violet Trefusis. Geoffrey Scott in his letter presenting this book to Vita Sackville-West's mother, says that is is giving only three copies of the de luxe edition as presents, adding that he is giving to to Vita to take to her. Scott was for a time Vita's lover, apparently the only other masculine relationship known apart from her husband, Harold Nicolson. (4)
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