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1930143661London: Hogarth Press 1930. Signed limited first book edition of this meditation on the literary possibilities of illness number 54 of 250 copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink. Octavo original half vellum and green silk boards marbled endpapers. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Woolf's essay advances the idea that illness is as worthy a topic of literary attention as more traditional ones like war love and lust: "novels one would have thought would have been devoted to influenza; epic poems to typhoid; odes to pneumonia lyrics to toothache. But no; … literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear." Woolf wrote this essay while convalescing in bed following a bout with exhaustion. During its composition she was leading what she called an "amphibious" life: half in half out of bed. She also set the type for this book herself. First published in the Criterion in January 1926; the text has been slightly revised for this edition. Kirkpatrick A14. Woolmer 248. Hogarth Press hardcover
191533879London: Duckworth 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf Virginia. THE VOYAGE OUT. London: Duckworth & Co. 1915. First True Edition of Virginia Woolf's FIRST novel. 8vo. 458 pp. 22 pp. of adverts and publisher's catalogue. <br /> Kirkpatrick and Clarke A1a.<br /> A bright fresh copy in original green cloth gilt titles to the spine lettered in black on upper front cover showing modest use with slight rubbing on the cloth in a custom slipcase with chemise. No previous owners or marks on the pages and tight binding.<br /> A rare addition to any Virginia Woolf Collection. Duckworth hardcover
114545London Duckworth 1927. . First American edition second English issue; 8vo; faint offsetting to endpapers else unmarked internally; publisher's navy blue cloth gilt lettering to spine with the original dust-jacket priced '5/- net' on spine slight fading to spine and extremities light bump to head of spine panel; a fine copy in near-fine dust-jacket.<br /> Virginia Woolf's first novel the first edition of which was put out by Duckworth in 1915 and not issued in the US until 1920 at which time Woolf took the opportunity to revise sections with which she was unhappy. An unknown number of sheets of that printing were imported by Duckworth a portion being issued in 1920 and a small number reissued as this present so-called 'Cheap Edition' in 1927.<br /><br />We know of just one example of the 1915 printing still to exist in jacket and have handled just 2 jacketed copies of the 1920 English issue. This being the first similarly complete example of the 'Cheap Edition'.<br /> Kirkpatrick A1c. London, Duckworth, 1927. hardcover
1931189830London: The Hogarth Press 1931. The trees wave the clouds pass. The time approaches when these soliloquies shall be shared First edition of the author's most ambitious and experimental novel. Cyril Connolly hailed The Waves as Woolf's masterpiece. "It is one of the books which comes nearest to stating the mystery of life and so in a sense nearest to solving it" Connolly p. 49. The text is woven from the interior voices of its six protagonists who were in part modelled on E. M. Forster Lytton Strachey T. S. Eliot Mary Hutchison Vanessa Bell and Woolf herself revealing their respective loves and loneliness. Octavo. Original purple cloth spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. Spine lightly darkened and with vertical crease foxing to edges and outer leaves; jacket unclipped a little foxed and browned small chips to ends and corners 3 cm closed split to foot of front spine fold presenting well: a very good copy in like jacket. Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279. Cyril Connolly Enemies of Promise 2008. hardcover
191930438Richmond: Hogarth Press 1919. Second edition. One of 500 copies printed for the Hogarth Press by Richard Madley. Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Original hand painted wrappers; Leonard Woolf thought this paper was not from the Omega Workshops but copied by someone else from the papers used for the first edition. Light wear to the edges. Coth case. This was the first Hogarth Press publication to be printed by a commercial printer. Kirkpatrick A3b; Woolmer 7. <br/><br/> Hogarth Press unknown books
1925140941189London: The Hogarth Press 1925. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear at extremities slight fading to cloth at spine. Pages lightly toned. Front and rear free endsheets offset from binder's glue and light tape burns there as well. A lovely copy of one of Virginia Woolf's best-known works published by Virginia and Leonard at their Hogarth Press. The Hogarth Press unknown books
1927143769London: The Hogarth Press 1927. Signed limited edition number 172 of 500 numbered copies signed by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell in purple ink. Quarto original illustrated paper boards text printed within woodcut borders designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell. From the library of publisher editor and literary agent Donald Friede and with his Miguel Covarrubias-designed book-plate on front paste-down. In very good condition with the spine largely perished. Rare and desirable. The Hogarth Press hardcover
1925140941189London: The Hogarth Press 1925. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear at extremities slight fading to cloth at spine. Pages lightly toned. Front and rear free endsheets offset from binder's glue and light tape burns there as well. A lovely copy of one of Virginia Woolf's best-known works published by Virginia and Leonard at their Hogarth Press. The Hogarth Press unknown
192722408The Hogarth Press Printed & Engraved By Herbert Reiach Limited UK 1927 1927 Hard Cover. No Jacket. Signed by Author. HB NODustJacket 1927 Limited NUMBERED Edition #120/500 Copies Third English Edition & 1st Illustrated Edition Brown white green grey decorated Illustrated Boards lettered in Brown slightly Warped Cover & with chips tears to Extremities Spinestrip MISSING but tiny Spine Piece still there unattached VG-/G00D- SOLD AS-IS NODJ Light soil Back Corner cover tiny ding Tear Interior Relatively Nice tight light wear Fox with tiny corner DINGS to bottom edge pgs Unpaginated INNER Hinges Starting causing LOOSENESS to some PAGES . This story was first Originally published by the Hogarth Press in 1919 & was Woolfs First Individual Volume Published . Signed by Author. F. Hard Cover. The Hogarth Press, Printed & Engraved By Herbert Reiach, Limited , UK, 1927 hardcover
1960739L50None: None c1960. Unbound. Very Good Indeed. N/A. None. A fantastic selection of Bloomsbury Group letters. All addressed to one Miss Monica Young from Vanessa Bell Leonard Woolf Naomi Michison and Duncan Grant. A fantastic selection of letters from some of the most noted figures in art and literature during 20th century Britain. The recipient of these letters was the ceramicist Monica Young 1929-2004. Young was for a time based in Sussex but moved to Yorkshire in 1974. It is possibly Young was associated with the Bloomsbury Group in Sussex. and also knew them from the arts scene. It seems that from the letters she was also an avid painter. Comprising four letters total and an envelope addressed to Miss young dated 1962 with Leonard's signature on the front. The first letter dated only 'Apr 25' is from Vanessa Bell. It is on headed paper from Bell's country home Charleston Firle Sussex. The letter reads ' Dear Miss Young Thank you very much for your letter and the nice thing you say about my show at Agnew's. I am glad to say that your Dutch friend did so see it and write to Mr Grant. I hope that you and she are able to get some painting done but I know how difficult it is to combine it either with marriage or any other work. Dieppe is a wonderful place to paint I think and I am glad you managed to go there. My son is very much pleased at your liking his book - I too found it very amusing! Yours sincerely Vanessa Bell'. The letter is in reference to the show that Bell and Grant organised at the 'Coronation Exhibition of Contemporary British Artists at Agnew and Sons London in 1937'. The letter is written in blue ballpoint pen. The second letter is dated Sep 11 and is also sent from Charleston Firle in Sussex and is from Duncan Grant. 'Dear Miss Young thank you for your letter. I would like to meet you and your Dutch friend. But I think if you don't mind it might be for a part of your visit till October. I am going to Paris in a week till Oct 8 & until then am painting out of doors as long as this lovely weather lasts. Will you write later and tell me when it would suit you to come over Yours sincerely Duncan Grant'. The third letter is typed from Leonard Woolf dated 1963 and states 'Dear Monica it was very nice of you to write. I have never had any animal quite like Troy and naturally miss him a great deal. Yours Leonard'. There is a hand-written envelope from Woolf with Young's address 'Miss M young 11 Toronto Terrace Lewes Sussex'. The final letter is from Naomi Mitchison and is also a typed letter 'Dear Miss Young How nice of you to write - one always wonders who at all reads one's books. Lpis is now in Oxford 32 Park town with her two little girls. The marriage broke up and she has been very unhappy; the divorce not through yet and her husband behaving pretty badly. The real difficulty is that she doesn't at all like her job teaching at a polytechnic in Reading. I wish she could hear of something else. Val is in London with five children and an increasing interest in education finds herself having to run all sorts of committees. The grand-daughters are a lively lot and bully me but quite nicely! yours Naomi Mitchison.' Here she is referring to her daughter Lois Michison. All letters are very smart. Some minor creasing to the edges of the Grant and Bell letters. Small tape repair to the rear of the Vanessa Bell letter. A few light spots to the Grant and Bell letters owing to their age. Very Good Indeed None unknown
126467New York/London: Fountain/Hogarth Press 1929. Hardcover. Very Good. 7x4x0. London and New York: The Hogarth Press / The Fountain Press 1929. First Edition. One of 492 copies this being No.341 SIGNED by the author. The first 100 copies of this title were issued in England by Hogarth the remaining copies this being an example by the Fountain Press in the US. Fine in no jacket as issued. Please email for photos. New York/London: Fountain/Hogarth Press hardcover
1929100This book is in good condition. There is some fading along the top edge of the outside boards as shown above. There are no bookplates or markings of any kind. The pages are clean and free of foxing. This is a Limited Edition #258/492 signed by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press / The Fountain Press in 1929. A rare find in any condition. The Hogarth Press / The Fountain Press hardcover
1932309445Athens 1932. 2 pp. recto and verso of single sheet of blue stationery. Oblong 8vo. Very pale spotting but fine. Matted and framed with photographic portrait. 2 pp. recto and verso of single sheet of blue stationery. Oblong 8vo. 'The proofs of my article have reached me here I am returning them corrected'. In part: "The proofs of my article have reached me here I am returning them corrected. I have checked the verse quotations from memory. I think that they are correct but I have not the books with me & as we shall not be back till May 17th or so I fear I cannot wait to compare them with the text. The names of the authors in order of quotation W.H. Auden/ numbers 123 & 4; John Lehmann 5; Day Lewis 6; W. Empson 7. I do not want the names to be quoted but I see you say that they are only for your own use."<br/>The article in question is "Letter to a Young Poet" addressed to John Lehmann which was originally published in the Yale Review for June 1932. It was brought out in a separate edition by the Hogarth Press later the same year. unknown books
1935309444np 1935. 2 pp. on single sheet of blue Tavistock Square stationery. 8vo. A small area of adhesion a file hole and a small chip at the bottom. Matted and framed. 2 pp. on single sheet of blue Tavistock Square stationery. 8vo. A tactful rejection letter from Woolf writing here in her role as publisher of the Hogarth Press to her literary acquaintance Logan Pearsall Smith 1865-1946. In part: <br/>"With reference to the essay charming as it is I am afraid that it would be of no use for us to attempt to publish it. The public appetite for separate essays seems to be exhausted so far as I am concerned so we have had to bring our essay series to an end. And even if we tried the experiment of beginning another series with your essay the fact that you are so soon going to include it in your book of essays would we fear be fatal drawback ."<br/>The Hogarth Press had published Smith's Stories from the Old Testament in 1920. unknown books
1915312644London: Duckworth & Co 1915. First edition. 458 pp. 6 16 ads pp. 8vo. Publisher's moss-green cloth boards spine lettered in gold upper cover ruled and lettered in black. Some wear cloth rubbed particularly at extremities with minimal loss. Housed in quarter black morocco-backed clamshell box. First edition. 458 pp. 6 16 ads pp. 8vo. KA COX'S COPY OF VIRGINIA WOOLF'S FIRST BOOK. Signed "Katharine Cox/ March 1915" on the front free endpaper. Ka Cox later Katharine Arnold-Forster and Virginia Woolf first met while spending a weekend in Oxford in 1911. The women were immediately drawn to each other and Cox became almost a member of the Bloomsbury household. Woolf appeared to have been particularly intrigued by Cox's love affair with Rupert Brooke at Newnham where she became a Neo-Pagan. After both their marriages Cox married labour politician Will Arnold-Forster the friendship seems to have cooled. Katharine however remained devoted to Virginia throughout her life. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A1a Duckworth & Co unknown books
19291409429New York NY / London UK: The Fountain Press / Hogarth Press 1929. Limited Edition #408/450. Hardcover. Octavo 159 1 pages. In Good condition. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering along the spine. Boards have mild shelving wear water-staining along spine slightly extending onto upper edges of boards. Small water-staining along top edge of first two front free endpages. Paperclip stain to top edge of first two front free endpages. Bookplate to front pastedown detached glue staining present. A few torn top edges from when the book was cut. Signed flat by Virginia Woolf on the half-title page. Limited Edition #408/450. Shelved in Case 2. Adeline Virginia Stephen later Virginia Woolf after her marriage to Leonard Woolf was born January 25 1882 to an affluent family in South Kensington London. She began writing professionally in 1900 and published her first novel in 1915. Woolf's writings would become highly popularized in the 1970's during the rise of Second-Wave feminism. <br /> <br> <br /> <br> <br /> Both Woolf's life and writings became highly regarded under feminist criticism in particular "A Room of One's Own" an extended essay that explores social injustices faced by women. 1409429. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. The Fountain Press / Hogarth Press hardcover
192955325London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1929. First printing. Near fine in very good jacket. First edition of one of the most influential literary essays of the twentieth century. In 1928 Woolf delivered two lectures about women and fiction at the Cambridge women's colleges Newnham and Girton lectures which she expanded into A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN the following year. In surveying the careers of novelists like Jane Austen and George Eliot Woolf considers the conditions necessary to create art and outlines the limitations of the literal and metaphorical spaces in which women writers have had to work. Playing with the idea of Shakespeare's sister whose talents could not have found similar expression in her time Woolf predicts that a woman writer the equal of Shakespeare will emerge under the right conditions. Constantly referenced this book has become a modern touchstone. 7'' x 4.5''. Original orange cloth spine lettered in gilt. In original light pink pictorial dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. 172 pages. Offsetting to endpapers as common. Jacket with small chips at spine ends and corners a few closed tears almost invisibly repaired with archival tissue to verso. Interior clean. Shows well. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press unknown
19263233481926. framed. fine. Autograph letter signed to Tom Driberg. Framed with a black-and-white photo reproduction. Framed with double glass revealing complete letter both front and rear. Fine.<br/> <br/> "It was very good of you to tell us about Miss Steins lecture. We had meant to suggest to her that she should write something of the kind for the Hogarth Press but had not the chance of talking to her at Edith Sitwell's Party."Tom Driberg was then an undergraduate at Oxford and later had a distinguished career in journalism & politics. Gertrude Stein's "Composition as Explanation" was published in November 1926<br/> <br/> unknown
1932309445Athens 1932. 2 pp. recto and verso of single sheet of blue stationery. Oblong 8vo. Very pale spotting but fine. Matted and framed with photographic portrait. 2 pp. recto and verso of single sheet of blue stationery. Oblong 8vo. In part: "The proofs of my article have reached me here I am returning them corrected. I have checked the verse quotations from memory. I think that they are correct but I have not the books with me & as we shall not be back till May 17th or so I fear I cannot wait to compare them with the text. The names of the authors in order of quotation W.H. Auden/ numbers 123 & 4; John Lehmann 5; Day Lewis 6; W. Empson 7. I do not want the names to be quoted but I see you say that they are only for your own use."<br /> The article in question is "Letter to a Young Poet" addressed to John Lehmann which was originally published in the Yale Review for June 1932. It was brought out in a separate edition by the Hogarth Press later the same year. unknown
1929WOOLFVIR002176Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press London. 1929. First edition. Small octavo. 172 pages. On the rear pastedown is the small ticket of a New York bookseller. Free endpapers lightly tanned. Spine very slightly faded and slightly bumped. Small bump to bottom corner of each cover. Very good indeed in the very scarce dustwrapper designed by Vanessa Bell which has some spotting a couple of small chips to top edge and a 1cm closed tear to head of spine. The dustwrapper is possibly supplied. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London. unknown
1925140940735New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1925. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition first printing. Bound in publisher's orange cloth with paper title label on spine printed in brown. Very Good with light fraying to cloth at crown light spotting to covers. Glue repairs to front and rear inner hinges previous owner names to front free endpaper. In a Very Good original dust jacket designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell. The jacket was once pasted to the pastedowns leaving a glue mark to them and to the blindside of the flaps. Otherwise the jacket is rather presentable with light chipping and toning a small stain to the top edge of the rear panel and a chip to the top of the front panel which has been reattached with Japanese tissue from the blindside. The author's best-known work which follows a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares to host a party later that evening. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown books
193072607San Francisco: Westgate Press 1930. Edition limited to 500 copies signed by Woolf this no. 314 and printed at the Grabhorn Press small 8vo p. 4 35 1; pp. fine copy in original quarter green morocco over patterned sage green paper-covered boards; spine sunned else near fine in publisher's green paper-covered slipcase. Kirkpatrick notes: "There is at least one variant of the binding in sage-green paper boards patterned in gold and darker green with an emerald-green leather spine and a green slip-in case. Mr. David McGee bibliographer of the Grabhorn Press states: "The majority of the edition was bound in blue - a ratio of 10 to 1 in favor of blue." Kirkpatrick A13a. Westgate Press unknown
1931300451London The Hogarth Press 1931. 1931. First edition so stated. 8vo. Original purple cloth is vibrant and not faded. Dust jacket unclipped; four small chips. Very good-fine. No foxing. No signatures or bookplates. Connolly 100. Woolmer 279. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. London, The Hogarth Press, 1931. hardcover books
193032460London: Oxford Street N.D. c. 1930 1930. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Author. Woolf Virginia. A "SNAP" LETTER AND PAPER FILE. Virginia Woolf's Copy. London: Oxford Street N.D. A stiff File Folder belonging to Virginia Woolf labeled in part on the upper cover in her distinctive hand: " . . . end of Oxford Street 559"; an intriguing piece from VW's possessions. Provenance: Julian Bell her great-nephew - acquired through Quentin Bell. In very good condition with the original transmittal envelope with Professor Bell: notation: Virginia Woolf Letter File / Donated by Julian Bell Oxford Street, N.D. [c. 1930] unknown
1922140943803Richmond: Printed and Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1922. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing and one of only 1200 copies originally published by Virginia and her husband Leonard on their Hogarth Press. An unusually nice copy bound in publisher's goldenrod cloth with title label to spine lacking the scarce dust jacket. Near Fine with light stain to spine and a few small spots to the front cover two roughly opened leaves with loss only to blank margins very skillfully mended with archival tissue else virtually pristine. A difficult book to find in such nice condition. Printed and Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press unknown
