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193332506N.p. n.d. London: N.p. n.d. c. 1933 1933. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author. Woolf Virginia. Signed Photograph Circa 1933 6" 1/2 x 5" Signed in black ink: "Yours / Virginia Woolf" on the lower right of the image. Good photographic portraits of Virginia Woolf do come onto the market periodically signed ones rarely appear. A near fine image publisher's very minor retouched enhancement under VW's right eye. published in Virginia Woolf And Her World by John Lehmann 1975. p.55. Publisher's notes to production on the verso. Outstanding. N.p. n.d. [c. 1933] unknown
192599750London: Hogarth Press 1925. First edition of one of Woolf's best-known novels one of only 2000 copies. Octavo original orange cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example scarce and desirable in the original dust jacket and in this condition. "In Mrs. Dalloway Woolf breaks decisively with the fictional conventions of the realistic novel. The technique is almost orchestral introducing and then interweaving the strains of the different characters' thoughts and finally engineering through a subtle sequence of readjustments and realignments a new and delicate harmony between them at the close of the book. Mrs. Dalloway thus initiated Woolf's sequence of radical experiments with literary form embodying a striking combination of fluid sympathy and secret resistance. Through the novel's rapid transitions between apparently disconnected but secretly related stories Woolf was able to suggest the hazards of neatly pigeonholing human character according to social situation or gender" Parker 110-11. in 2005 it was included on Time's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was adapted to the 1997 film starring Vanessa Redgrave in the title role. Hogarth Press hardcover books
191730435Richmond: Written and Printed by Virginia Woolf and L.S. Woolf. Hogarth Press 1917. First edition. The first book of the Hogarth Press one of 150 hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. With four woodcut illustrations by Dora Carrington.The rare and fragile variant bound in thin yellow paper wrappers printed in black without initial or terminal blank leaves. A very little wear to the overlapping fore edge and the stitching holes of the wrappers but a fine copy internally immaculate. The two stories are "The Mark on the Wall" by Virginia Woolf and "Three Jews" by Leonard Woolf. From the library of A.R.A. Hobson sold in his 1996 sale. Half morocco folding case. Kirkpatrick A2a; Woolmer 1. <br/><br/> Written and Printed by Virginia Woolf and L.S. Woolf. Hogarth Press unknown books
192530452London: Hogarth Press 1925. First edition. One of 2000 copies printed with dust jacket design by Vanessa Bell. Original reddish-brown colored cloth a bright fresh and unworn copy with slight spotting to the edges. The dust jacket is slightly spotted and tanned on the spine; it lacks a tiny chip at the crown affecting the "MR" in the title. Kirkpatrick A9a; Woolmer 82. <br/><br/> Hogarth Press hardcover books
1927140948216London: The Hogarth Press 1927. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing in the original dust jacket designed by Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell. Bound in publisher's blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with sunning to spine cloth through dust jacket light spotting to endsheets. Contents tanned. In a Very Good dust jacket a little brittle with partial splits at the flap folds; light edge wear and light soiling toning heaviest at spine panel vertical crease to front and rear panels tape ghosts to flaps. A bright copy of one of the author's most enduring works ranked by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The Hogarth Press unknown
1925109732London: Hogarth Press 1925. First edition of one of Woolf's best-known novels one of only 2000 copies. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in the original dust jacket with some expert restoration. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. "In Mrs. Dalloway Woolf breaks decisively with the fictional conventions of the realistic novel. The technique is almost orchestral introducing and then interweaving the strains of the different characters' thoughts and finally engineering through a subtle sequence of readjustments and realignments a new and delicate harmony between them at the close of the book. Mrs. Dalloway thus initiated Woolf's sequence of radical experiments with literary form embodying a striking combination of fluid sympathy and secret resistance. Through the novel's rapid transitions between apparently disconnected but secretly related stories Woolf was able to suggest the hazards of neatly pigeonholing human character according to social situation or gender" Parker 110-11. in 2005 it was included on Time's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was adapted to the 1997 film starring Vanessa Redgrave in the title role. Hogarth Press hardcover books
1927140940391London: The Hogarth Press 1927. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First edition first printing in the original dust jacket designed by Virginia Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell. Bound in publisher's original blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with light fading to spine cloth. Some foxing throughout though heaviest at textblock edge early and final pages. Previous owner name to front free endpaper and again on the half title page. The dust jacket is Very Good with the usual toning to the spine some soiling and foxing chips to the corners and spine ends and a tear to the bottom edge of the front panel. A bright copy of one of the author's most enduring works. In 1998 the Modern Library ranked To the Lighthouse as number 15 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. The Hogarth Press unknown books
1927116345London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1927. First edition of one of Woolf's most popular and acclaimed major novels in the extremely rare original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell Woolf's sister. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the crown of the spine. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell. From the library of Elizabeth Paepcke with her signature in pencil to the front free endpaper. Paepcke along with her husband Walter were philanthropists best noted for founding the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Skiing Company in the early 1950s both of which helped transform the town of Aspen Colorado into an international resort destination and popularize the sport of skiing in the United States. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Rare and desirable especially in this condition and with noted provenance. Published two years after Mrs. Dalloway and three years before The Waves To the Lighthouse "displays Woolf's technique of narrating through stream of consciousness and imagery at its most assured rich and suggestive" Drabble 990. "In its portrayal of life. it gives us an interlude of vision that must stand at the head of all Virginia Woolf's work" New York Times. To the Lighthouse was "written at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision. It is the sunniest of her books and shows the obsession with rendering the passage of time which dominated her later work. With her prosperous upper middle class academic background of the late Victorian establishment Virginia Woolf is always walking a tight-rope in her desire to get away from it and portray ordinary people as a novelist should hence the mixture of respect and irony with which she surveys its security and solid values" Connolly. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005 the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923. It was adapted to film in 1983 by Hugh Stoddart directed by Colin Gregg and produced by Alan Shallcross. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press hardcover books
1927116345London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1927. First edition of one of Woolf’s most popular and acclaimed major novels in the extremely rare original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell Woolf’s sister. Octavo original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket with light rubbing and wear to the crown of the spine. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell. From the library of Elizabeth Paepcke with her signature in pencil to the front free endpaper. Paepcke along with her husband Walter were philanthropists best noted for founding the Aspen Institute and the Aspen Skiing Company in the early 1950s both of which helped transform the town of Aspen Colorado into an international resort destination and popularize the sport of skiing in the United States. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable especially in this condition and with noted provenance. Published two years after Mrs. Dalloway and three years before The Waves To the Lighthouse “displays Woolf’s technique of narrating through stream of consciousness and imagery at its most assured rich and suggestive†Drabble 990. “In its portrayal of life… it gives us an interlude of vision that must stand at the head of all Virginia Woolf’s work†New York Times. To the Lighthouse was “written at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision… It is the sunniest of her books and shows the obsession with rendering the passage of time which dominated her later work. With her prosperous upper middle class academic background of the late Victorian establishment Virginia Woolf is always walking a tight-rope in her desire to get away from it and portray ordinary people as a novelist should hence the mixture of respect and irony with which she surveys its security and solid values†Connolly. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005 the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923. It was adapted to film in 1983 by Hugh Stoddart directed by Colin Gregg and produced by Alan Shallcross. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press hardcover
1925196996New York: Harcourt Brace & Company 1925. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Very Good clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped price remains. Chipping along spine crown. Small chip on front panel. 1 in by 3 in description of the book pasted to front end page. Harcourt, Brace & Company hardcover
191934365Richmond: Hogarth Press 1919. Second Edition. Soft cover. near fine. Second Edition. Soft cover. Woolf Virginia. KEW GARDENS. Richmond: Hogarth Press 1919. Second Edition. 500 copies printed. 8vo. 16 pp. With two engravings by Vanessa Bell in the original decorated wrappers which have had some excellent edge restoration. White printed label to upper wrapper. Not in fact printed at but for the Hogarth Press by Richard Madley of Whitfield Street possibly in consequence of Vanessa Bell's disappointment at the first edition's rendering of her interior art which had at 150 copies been well enough subscribed to put forth a second. A lovely example. "Leonard Woolf thought that these wrappers were not from the Omega Workshops but were copied from the first edition by someone else". Kirkpatrick and Clarke A3b. Woolmer 7. Hogarth Press unknown
1928192836New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. Hilda Vaughan's copy of the signed limited edition True first edition number 208 of 800 copies signed by the author. This copy belonged to the Welsh writer Hilda Vaughan whom the Woolfs invited to dine on at least one occasion. Vaughan's works of realism set mostly in her native Radnorshire were the antithesis of Woolf's experimental style. Woolf particularly loathed the novels of Vaughan's husband Charles Langbridge Morgan accusing him "of wrapping up tame little reputable platitudes in words of twenty five syllables and thus posing and thus undermining the health of English letters. But I explode so easily against fiction that I have hardly any trust in my own vehemence" Letters p. 24. Her experience as organizing secretary of the Women's Land Army inspired Vaughan's depiction of working-class women in her novels. Her service also inspired the romance writer Berta Ruck who portrayed Vaughan in The Land Girl's Love-Story 1919. Vaughan's literary prestige gradually waned following her well-reviewed debut The Battle to the Weak 1925 though her contributions to Anglo-Welsh literature have since been posthumously reassessed. Her ownership inscription is on the front pastedown. This edition comprised 861 copies published nine days before the first trade edition issued by the Hogarth Press on 11 October. Inspired by Vita Sackville-West the novel was described by her son Nigel Nicolson as "the longest love letter in history". Octavo. Frontispiece with tissue guard 7 half-tone photographic illustrations including 3 of Vita Sackville-West as Orlando. Original black cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt publisher's device to front cover in gilt cream endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. With original glassine dust jacket. Housed in custom black quarter morocco folding box. Faint sunning to spine gilt mark to rear cover; glassine edges chipped but sound: a near-fine copy. Kirkpatrick A11a; see Woolmer 185. The Letters of Virginia Woolf Volume V 1975. hardcover
193733131London: The Hogarth Press 1937. 1st Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Woolf Virginia. THE YEARS. London: The Hogarth Press 1937 Signed by Virginia Woolf. First Edition. Crown 8vo. 469 pp. Publisher's light jade-green cloth gilt titles to the spine. A lovely near fine or better copy in a superb example of the illustrated original cream dustwrapper designed by Vanessa Bell and printed in black and brown. Quite stunning edition. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A22a. Wolmer 423. The author's penultimate novel bringing together all of her classic themes. The success of The Years now recognized as a feminist novel rather than simply a family saga motivated Time Magazine to devote a 1937 cover to Virginia Woolf.<br /> A signed copy of The Years is rare to find. The Hogarth Press unknown
1927108116The Hogarth Press 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The HOGARTH PRESS London 1927. Hard Cover. A near fine first illustrated edition in a near fine dust jacket with the spine completely intact which is very rare and most of the original clear wax paper outer jacket present. Vanessa Bell illustrator. First Illustrated Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. No. 133 of 500 Copies Signed by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell with the characteristic purple ink. Rust mustard and grey floral design and lettering on front cover. Housed in a custom-made cloth folding case with gilt lettered leather label on spine. Signed by Author and Illustrator. The Hogarth Press hardcover books
1927108116The Hogarth Press 1927. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. The HOGARTH PRESS London 1927. Hard Cover. A near fine first illustrated edition in a near fine dust jacket with the spine completely intact which is very rare and most of the original clear wax paper outer jacket present. Vanessa Bell illustrator. First Illustrated Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. No. 133 of 500 Copies Signed by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell with the characteristic purple ink. Rust mustard and grey floral design and lettering on front cover. Housed in a custom-made cloth folding case with gilt lettered leather label on spine. Signed by Author and Illustrator. The Hogarth Press hardcover
1920329866New York: George H. Doran Company 1920. First American edition. 508 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Green cloth. A fine copy in very good dust jacket. The white printed jacket has a two-inch uneven creased tear at lower corner of front panel at edge of spine with a small chip and few short tears at lower edge of front panel short creased tear and few nicks at tips of spine rear panel has two one-inch tears and a short narrow chip at fold of rear flap else complete and quite bright. Custom cloth clamshell box. First American edition. 508 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Kirkpatrick A4b "No specimen of dust-jacket available" George H. Doran Company unknown
193833529London: The Hogarth Press 1938. First Edition. First Edition. Woolf Virginia. THREE GUINEAS. Signed By Virginia Woolf. London: The Hogarth Press 1938. First Edition Neatly Signed by Virginia Woolf in her characteristic purple ink to the half-title page. 8vo. 329 pp. An excellent copy in yellow cloth gilt titles to the spine lacking the dustwrapper. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A23a. Woolmer 440. The Hogarth Press unknown
192532468London: Hogarth Press 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Woolf. Virginia. THE COMMON READER. Signed Association Copy From the library of Victoria Strachey & Mark Holloway. London: Hogarth Press 1925. 8vo. 305pp. light grayish blue cloth second edition issued November - the first was issued in April. A short & amusing Als. from Virginia Woolf tipped to the front free endpaper reading: "To / Dr. Rendel / A small dose nightly to / ensure sleep / Virginia Woolf / Christmas 1925". The book is further signed in pencil by F.E. Rendel at the top of the front endpaper. At the corner of the front pastedown is another very lightly written inscription that reads: "For Victoria Strachey with love from . March 21st. 1951" A very good copy lacking the dustwrapper & showing light general use. There is some spotting to some of the front & back pages the spine is slightly yellowed & there is a chip to the paper spine label which is mildly tanned. Provenance: Ex Libris; Dr. Frances Elinor Rendel & Acquired from the library of Victoria Strachey & Mark Holloway. Lytton Strachey was Victoria Strachey's great uncle - Dr. F.E. Rendel to whom this letter is inscribed by Virginia Woolf was Doctor Frances Elinor Rendel 1885 - 1942 the daughter of Lytton Strachey's Eldest sister Eleanor & was known as Ellie Rendel. At some point in 1924 Dr. F.E. Rendel became the London doctor of Virginia Woolf Roger Fry & the Bells Vanessa & Clive. Vanessa Bell writes in a letter to Virginia Woolf of April 23rd. 1927:- "Roger Fry comes tomorrow. He was to have come before but it seems that Ellie Rendel nearly killed him like you with her new brand of inoculations and he couldn't start as he meant to." Dr. F.E. Rendel was the doctor treating Virginia Woolf at the very end of her life.<br /> The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf<br /> Edited by Stephen Barkway Stuart N. Clarke 281. Hogarth Press hardcover
2566Washington DC: Lunn Gallery/Graphics International Ltd 1977. First edition. Orignial publisher's box. Very Good. A COLLECTION OF THE MOST CELEBRATED COLOUR PHOTOGRAPHS OF TWENTIETH-CENTURY ARTISTS. NUMBER 1 OF 6 COPIES RESERVED FOR ARTIST AND PUBLISHERS OUT OF A TOTAL OF 36. The present portfolio of Freund's photographic portraits assembles the most celebrated of her innovative colour images. The portfolio is comprised of Freund's portraits of:<br /> <br /> 1. Colette 1873-1954<br /> 2. Virginia Woolf 1882-1941<br /> 3. André Gide 1869-1951<br /> 4. James Joyce 1882-1941<br /> 5. Andreinne Monnier 1892-1955<br /> 6. Jean Cocteau 1889-1963<br /> 7. Simone de Beauvoir 1908<br /> 8. Jean-Paul Sartre 1905<br /> 9. André Malraux 1901-1976<br /> 10. Victoria Sackville-West 1892-1962<br /> <br /> It is well documented both Woolf's and Joyce's aversions to sitting for photographs and indeed "Freund was twice refused admission to Tavistock Square but eventually Woolf succumbed" being "acutely self-conscious and disliked sitting for pictures never mind 'seeing herself'"Richard Shone "Portraits of Virginia Woolf: here the true face of the modern writer" The Guardian 20 June 2014. Freund's ability to capture her subjects in states of ease-not to mention in colour-has preserved for posterity valuable likenesses of the most talented creative literary minds of the past century. The authorised release of these portraits each signed by Freund and numbered and embossed by the publisher as Au Pays des Visages coincided with Freund's appointment to the presidency of the French Association of Photographers and represent a definitive curation of her pre-eminent portraiture.<br /> <br /> Size: Images = 8x11.5 in; matte = 14.5x18.5 in; portfolio = 17x21 in.<br /> <br /> FREUND GISÈLE. Au Pays des Visages. Washington D.C.: Lunn Gallery/Graphics International Ltd. 1977. First edition number 1 of 6; 'The total edition is of 36 examples of which 30 are for sale and 6 are reserved by the artist and the publishers.' Each print is signed by the artist and stamped blind and numbered "I/VI" by the publisher. Original blue cloth publisher's box each print is mounted as issued. Some wear to box otherwise fine.<br /> <br /> EXTREMELY RARE SIGNED FREUND PORTRAITS ISSUE 1 OF 6. Lunn Gallery/Graphics International Ltd unknown
1925181601London: Hogarth Press 1925. Can't we exchange cages for a lark How horrified all the professors would be! First edition Hugh Walpole's copy with his morocco bookplate and ownership signature dated May 1925 to the front endpapers. The two writers had a long affectionate friendship often reading each other's novels and discussing their writing over tea or in letters. They first met in 1928 when Walpole presented Woolf with the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize for To the Lighthouse a novel Walpole wrote had "liberated" him. After the ceremony she invited him to dinner at Tavistock Square an occasion he recorded in his journal. "Evening enchanting - with the Woolfs and Lydia Lopokova. It had a kind of fairy quality about it. I was diffident but Virginia encouraged me talking about writing as though we were on a level" quoted in Hart-Davis p. 289. Woolf and Walpole came from different literary schools which made for lively conversation and correspondence - Walpole's biographer Rupert Hart-Davis counted 60 letters from Woolf among his papers. In one memorable exchange Woolf contrasts their different styles. "Well - I'm very much interested about unreality and The Waves - we must discuss it. I mean why do you think The Waves unreal and why was that the very word I was using of Judith Paris. You're real to some - I to others. Who's to decide what reality is. Lord - how tired I am of being caged with Aldous Joyce and Lawrence! Can't we exchange cages for a lark How horrified all the professors would be!" Letters vol. 4 p. 402. In another Woolf praises Walpole's autobiographical novel The Apple Trees which took its title from a passage in The Waves. "Of all literature yes I think this is more or less true I love autobiography most. In fact I sometimes think only autobiography is literature - novels are what we peel off and come at last to the core which is only you or me. And I think this little book - why so small - peels off all the things I don't like in fiction and leaves the thing I do like - you" Letters vol. 5 p. 142. The two saw one another for the last time on 30 April 1940. Walpole movingly recorded the meeting in his journal: "Virginia Woolf had tea alone with me yesterday. She looked like a beautiful Victorian lady of fifty years ago. She had been lecturing in Brighton on the novel and had said that I and my contemporaries with our roots in the old pre-1914 world had been like men on a tower firmly placed. I said that I had loved her always. She asked why. I gave my reasons and she seemed pleased" quoted in Hart-Davis p. 422. Following Woolf's death the following year Walpole set down his final thoughts on his friend's writing "I think Mrs. Dalloway her best novel and The Waves her most beautiful poem" and on their friendship: "I told her more than I ever told any other human being more than I shall ever tell any human being again. I discovered that beneath the mocking humour the sometimes stern enquiry the sharp wonder the restless investigation there was a kindness of heart and tenderness of feeling rich with an intense personal charity. I shall miss her all my life" quoted in Stape pp. 187 190. His own death followed just two months later. Octavo. Original dark red cloth spine lettered in gilt. Housed in a custom green cloth folding box. Minimal rubbing to cloth a little foxing to text block edges. A near-fine copy. Kirkpatrick A9a; Woolmer 82. Rupert Hart-Davis Hugh Walpole 1952; J. H. Stape Virginia Woolf: Interviews and Recollections 1994; Virginia Woolf The Letters 1975-80. hardcover
1927117036London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1927. First edition of one of Woolf's most popular and acclaimed major novels. Octavo original cloth. Very good in the extremely rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition with rubbing and wear to the extremities. Jacket design by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. Published two years after Mrs. Dalloway and three years before The Waves To the Lighthouse "displays Woolf's technique of narrating through stream of consciousness and imagery at its most assured rich and suggestive" Drabble 990. "In its portrayal of life. it gives us an interlude of vision that must stand at the head of all Virginia Woolf's work" New York Times. To the Lighthouse was "written at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision. It is the sunniest of her books and shows the obsession with rendering the passage of time which dominated her later work. With her prosperous upper middle class academic background of the late Victorian establishment Virginia Woolf is always walking a tight-rope in her desire to get away from it and portray ordinary people as a novelist should hence the mixture of respect and irony with which she surveys its security and solid values" Connolly. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. In 2005 the novel was chosen by TIME magazine as one of the one hundred best English-language novels since 1923. It was adapted to film in 1983 by Hugh Stoddart directed by Colin Gregg and produced by Alan Shallcross. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press hardcover books
192933705New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf Virginia. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1929 8vo. 202pp. Publisher's original dark blue boards titles to spine gilt. A near fine fresh copy in the rarely seen correct slate dustwrapper printed in black & blue of the First American Edition first printing. A lovely example of the very uncommon edition preceded only by the signed limited edition issued in the USA and simultaneously in the United Kingdom. Woolf's major polemic against patriarchy based loosely on two lectures she delivered one at Newnham and the other at Girton. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A12a. Woolmer 215. Woolf observed in her diary "I shall be attacked for a feminist". An increasingly uncommon & important Woolf title & 20th century literary highlight. Rare copy. Kirkpatrick A12c. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
1928140942795New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. Signed Limited First Edition. About Fine. Limited first edition. Copy 767 of 861 copies signed by Virginia Woolf. Bound in publisher's original black cloth with spine decorated in gilt. About Fine with trivial wear to the cloth. A lovely copy. Crosby Gaige unknown
1906316986London 1906. framed. fine. Double matted and framed in double glass with a picture of Virginia Stephen as a young woman. London November 14 1906.<br/> <br/> She writes on a Tuesday evening to her future brother- in -law Clive Bell - "Thoby had a good sleep last evening & the dr says he has had a better day altogether than yesterday. He is asleep now. Everything so far is satisfactory. The dr disapproves of reading - says talk is better." This poignant note was written a week before Thoby died. Virginia Woolf had difficulty acknowledging her brother's death pretending in letters to Violet Dickinson that he had in fact survived. She did eventually keep him alive in her fiction.<br/> <br/> unknown
1928192268New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. The longest love letter in history True first edition number 509 of 800 copies signed by the author from a limited edition of 861 copies. It precedes by nine days the first trade edition issued by the Hogarth Press on 11 October. Inspired by Vita Sackville-West the novel was described by her son Nigel Nicolson as "the longest love letter in history". Octavo. Frontispiece with tissue guard 7 half-tone photographic illustrations including 3 of Vita Sackville-West as Orlando. Original black cloth spine lettered and decorated in gilt publisher's device to front cover in gilt cream endpapers top edge gilt others untrimmed. Holliday Bookshop ticket on rear pastedown. Usual minor fading to spine gilt remaining bright couple of spots to cloth pp. 182-3 browned from loosely inserted clipping else clean. A near-fine copy. Kirkpatrick A11a; see Woolmer 185. hardcover
