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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
192177445Richmond:: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1921. First edition; one of 1000 copies printed. publisher's cloth-backed boards designed by Vanessa Bell with printed paper label on spine. Tiny 1946 ink ownership signature on the front free endpaper which is slightly tanned; boards a bit rubbed and rear board lightly soiled. The very rare spine label is lightly tanned with a tiny diagonal chip at one end not affecting printing. 12mo. With woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Woolmer 17. Kirkpatrick A5 Neither Woolmer nor Kirkpatrick mention the printed paper label on the spine. We have never seen it on another copy. Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, hardcover
1925140946015London: The Hogarth Press 1925. First Edition. Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to spine with chipping ends; uneven sunning to boards. Offsetting to endsheets and contents lightly tanned. Virginia Woolf's best-known works published by Virginia and her husband Leonard at their Hogarth Press. The Hogarth Press unknown
192733190New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1927. First Edition. Vanessa Bell. Vanessa Bell. First Edition. Woolf Virginia. TO THE LIGHTHOUSE. New York: Harcourt Brace and Company's sixth impression of the First Edition of Virginia Woolf's fifth novel. "In writing To The Lighthouse Woolf consciously used her own childhood memories of summer vacations in St. Ives Cornwall at Talland House from where she could see the Godrevy Lighthouse and drew portraits of her parents Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Stephen in the figures of Mr. and Mrs. Ramsay. Woolf noted in her Diary "to have father's character done complete in it; & mother's; & St. Ives; & childhood; & all the usual things I try to put in - life death & c". Hussey Mark. It was named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. This classic was later adapted to film.<br /> <br /> 8vo. 312 pp.Green green cloth boards gilt titles to the spine in a lovely example of the Vanessa Bell designed dustwrapper showing modest use and slight archival restoration to the crown and slight crease on front panel. The dustjacket is printed in brown and green ink. There were 1500 copies issued on August 24 1948 at $3.00.<br /> Overall a wonderful copy of this elusive Woolf Highlight. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A10b. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown
19281621<p>Superb condition. The completely unrestored jacket only has minor closed tears a very small hole of jacket low on spine of jacket. Minor chip on back of jacket and has gone up slightly by front-flap and side. The jacket has some minor bleeding over from orange cloth on inner-side of jacket. It is completely dry and only slightly. The book has a few small stains on boards and a crease on the spine. There is always some marks from previous patch and a name under. Very good otherwise.</p> Hogarth press hardcover
19311510581931. Rare autograph letter signed by Virginia Woolf. Written in black ink on a single folding sheet with the original envelope. London: 52 Tavistock Square December 1931. "Dear Mr. Leake I am delighted that you are enjoying After the Deluge and entirely agree with you in your admiration of it. I have conveyed your thanks to the author who sends you his kind wishes. We both greatly envy you for spending Christmas at Zennon. Yours Sincerely Virginia Woolf." In very good condition. Matted and framed with the original transmittal envelope and a photograph of Woolf. The entire piece measures inches by inches. One of the most important modernist 20th century authors British novelist Virginia Woolf became a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism and her works have since garnered much attention and widespread commentary for "inspiring feminism" an aspect of her writing that was unheralded earlier. Woolf's best known works include Mrs. Dalloway 1925 To the Lighthouse 1927 The Waves 1931. unknown
1931196891London: Hogarth Press 1931. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. 1 inch open tear at bottom of rear flap fold. Thin closed tear nearly the length of spine running down rear spine edge. Chip on front flap fold. Hogarth Press hardcover
1925355490713631London: Hogarth Press 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the The Hogarth Press 1925. First UK Edition. First Series: Original grey cloth-backed Vanessa Bell designed boards in green and brown titles to spine in black with the cream D/W also designed by Vanessa Bell A neat book-plate on the front paste-down otherwise a VG copy in a D/W that has benefitted from some skilful restoration by one of the Worlds leading archivists and now shows as a VG example. Scans invited Hogarth Press hardcover
192818774London: The Hogarth Press 1928. A first edition first printing of 'Orlando' by Virginia Woolf published by The Hogarth Press in 1928. 8vo 299 1 pp. 8 plates - a very good book neat signature to front endpaper. Publisher's original orange cloth with some light browning and marking. In the very good wrapper with some creasing and tears and a little loss to the top edge. This the UK first edition is preceded by a signed limited American edition. "Orlando: A Biography" by Virginia Woolf published in 1928 is a seminal work of modernist literature that defies traditional genre classifications. The novel follows the life of its titular character Orlando a young nobleman in Elizabethan England who mysteriously transforms into a woman at the age of 30 living for centuries without ageing significantly. Through Orlando's journey across time Woolf explores themes of gender and identity fluidity the nature of literature and history and the constraints imposed by society. Orlando's interactions with various historical figures and experiences across different epochs reflect Woolf's commentary on the rigid gender roles and expectations of her time. The character's transformation from male to female allows Woolf to challenge and critique the gender norms and patriarchal structures of the early 20th century. Woolf's innovative narrative structure blends biography fiction and fantasy characterised by a playful satirical tone and rich poetic prose. The novel is also notable for its exploration of sexuality and the fluidity of love making it a pioneering text in LGBTQ literature. "Orlando" remains a vibrant and influential work celebrated for its bold experimentation and profound insights into human experience. The Hogarth Press hardcover
19341631275 September 1934. To a librarian who lived near the Woolfs in Richmond and Lewes Woolf writes to the librarian Alfred Cecil Piper 1883-1973 declining an invitation to speak at the Rotary Club in Richmond: "unfortunately I am unable to make speeches and for some time past have therefore refused all invitations to do so". The letter includes one correction in Woolf's hand amending "way" to "away" in the second line. The letter was written while Woolf was living with Leonard in Sussex writing what would become The Years 1937. Though she had not lived in Richmond since 1924 she writes fondly to Piper of her time there: "May I take the opportunity of saying how much I used to enjoy the library at Richmond when some years ago we were living there" Piper worked as a librarian in Surrey and Sussex and was also a writer on bibliography and local history. His published works include an article on "The Booksellers and Printers of Richmond Surrey" 1932 in which the Woolfs and the Hogarth Press are mentioned. He also wrote local history books including A History of the Parish Church of St Mary Magdalene Richmond 1947 and Alfriston: The Story of a Sussex Downland Village 1970 about the picturesque village a short walk south-east of Monk's House and Charleston. The letter is published in The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf 2025 edited by Stephen Barkway and Stuart N. Clarke on pages 699-701. Single sheet 202 x 165 mm typed one side only letterhead of Monk's House Rodmell. Folded once very faint stains to corners and strip of silk to verso presumably where once tipped into an album very good condition. unknown
19281688<p>Great condition with excellent unrestored jacket has some very small loss and short closed tears. The longest is the one at the front. Not clipped jacket is in superb condition. The book itself is fine fresh inside and no writing. First state both book and jacket.</p> hogarth press hardcover
1921710L5DLondon: Hogarth Press 1921. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". Vanessa Bell . A wonderful copy of Virginia Woolf's breakout story collection 'Monday or Tuesday'. Being one of a small 1000 copy print run. Illustrated with four woodcuts by Vanessa Bell Woolf's elder sister. Bell designed a number of dust jackets for books published by the Hogarth Press in addition to illustrating many of Virginia's later works. Collated complete with the leaf of publisher's advertisements to the rear. This was the first Hogarth Press book to be included in the Annals of English Literature and was a very early publication by the Woolfs' press. It was the only short story collection to be published in Virginia Woolf's lifetime. Containing eight stories 'A Haunted House' 'A Society' 'Monday or Tuesday' 'An Unwritten Novel' 'The String Quartet' 'Blue and Green' 'Kew Gardens' and 'The Mark on the Wall'. An important Bloomsbury Group work. In a custom slipcase and with the book in a custom brodart wrap. A truly excellent copy of this usually fragile work. In the original quarter cloth binding with paper covered boards. Externally excellent with minor bumping to the head and tail of spine. A few light marks to the rear board. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright. Minor offsetting and a few scattered spots to the first and last few pages. Otherwise just the odd light spot. Near Fine Hogarth Press hardcover
1925140949371New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1925. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition first printing. ii 332 pp. Bound in publisher's cherry red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with ink ownership signature to front free endpaper and 1/4 inch open tear to back fly-leaf; pages a little roughly opened. In a Near Fine dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell corners clipped but price still present on front flap with lightly sunned spine panel and a short tear to upper edge of rear panel. A bright and beautiful copy apparently unread. The best we've handled. Kirkpatrick & Clarke A8b.<br /> <br /> <p>Virginia Woolf's first collection of literary essays published by Harcourt on May 14 1925 three weeks after its appearance in Great Britain. As the title suggests Woolf intended her book to be enjoyed by the ordinary person who reads for pleasure. The New York Times praised the author's creative approach to literary criticism: "Mrs. Woolf like a mirror reflects back the colors of the minds which betray themselves in the pages of the books which she takes under consideration. Harcourt, Brace and Company unknown
1915140944870London: Duckworth & Co 1915. First Edition. Trial Binding. Very Good. First edition first printing. iv 458 8 ads 16 ads pp. The author's first book. Bound in what appears to be a publisher's trial binding: dark blue cloth triple ruled in blind on upper board with spine lettered in gilt and decorated with floral device in blind; lacking the dust jacket. J. Kirkpatrick notes a similar apparition appearing almost three-quarters of a century ago in A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf "a copy in red cloth lettered in gold on the spine and on the upper cover with the floral device and motto in blind on the lower cover was advertised in Raphael King Ltd's catalogue No. 52 1951 and is now in the Robert H. Taylor Collection Princeton University Library. It is probably a trial binding." In contrast the usual trade binding is green cloth with the spine lettered in gilt and paneled title block in black to upper board.<p><br /> <br /> Very Good. Slight lean to binding light edge wear to cloth. Spine ends bruised blemish to spine and gilt dulled. Foxing to textblock edge former owner name and date to front free endpaper endsheets browned and pages toned hinge at rear endsheet is lightly exposed at the ends. Woolf began writing her first novel in 1910 and completed several drafts before its publication in 1915. It was a difficult five years for Woolf in which she suffered from bouts of depression and a suicide attempt but the final work contained seeds of what would later become her trademark: an innovative narrative style a focus on feminine consciousness sexuality and death.<br /> <br /> Very Good. Slight lean to binding light edge wear to cloth. Spine ends bruised blemish to spine and gilt dulled. Foxing to textblock edge former owner name and date to front free endpaper endsheets browned and pages toned hinge at rear endsheet is lightly exposed at the ends. Woolf began writing her first novel in 1910 and completed several drafts before its publication in 1915. It was a difficult five years for Woolf in which she suffered from bouts of depression and a suicide attempt but the final work contained seeds of what would later become her trademark: an innovative narrative style a focus on feminine consciousness sexuality and death. Duckworth & Co unknown
192172605Richmond: published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1921. First edition only 1000 were printed; 12mo 91 3; 4 full-page woodcuts a very good to fine copy in white paper boards printed in black and designed by Vanessa Bell brown cloth spine. In this copy the plates are slightly offset. Tissue guards have been laid in for at least the last 40 years making the offsetting much lighter than usual. Hand-set and printed by F. T. McDermott with Leonard Woolf's help at the Prompt Press Richmond; Kirkpatrick A5a. published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press unknown
1925151114London: The Hogarth Press 1925 & 1932. First British editions of these classic collections of Woolf's critical essays. Octavo volume one in the original publisher's pictorial half-cloth boards volume two in the original publisher's green cloth. Volume one in very good condition dust jacket. Volume two is very good in a very good dust jacket. Volume two jacket design is by Vanessa Bell the older sister to Virginia Woolf. Housed in a custom green slipcase. A nice set. The Common Reader 1925 and The Common Reader: Second Series 1932 by Virginia Woolf are collections of literary essays that exemplify her distinctive approach to criticism blending historical reflection psychological insight and stylistic experimentation. Addressed to the “common reader†rather than the academic specialist the volumes examine writers across three centuries of English literature including figures such as Defoe Swift Hazlitt Hardy Meredith Christina Rossetti and George Gissing. In the second series Woolf expands her range with portraits that combine biographical interpretation and evaluative critique offering nuanced assessments of literary character and cultural context. The Hogarth Press hardcover
1927323445London: hogarth 1927. hardcover. fine. 8vo handsomely rebound in full blue morocco raised bands and black spine labels. London: Hogarth Press 1927. First Edition. A bright copy with none of the usual foxing. A fine copy.<br/> <br/> Minor spotting on fore edge<br/> <br/> hogarth unknown
1931806P4DLondon: The Hogarth Press 1931. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Vanessa Bell. A nice first edition copy of this experimental novel by Virginia Woolf one of her most puzzling publications here in the original beautifully designed dust wrapper by Vanessa Bell. The first edition first impression of this work.In the original Vanessa Bell designed unclipped dust wrapper.One of the experimental novels of Virginia Woolf following six narrators from childhood to adulthood through a series of soliloquies ruminating on the concepts of individuality self and community. Readers can see some of Woolf's friends in her characters in this novel; in particular E. M. Forster in the writer Bernard T. S. Eliot in the outsider Louis Lytton Strachey in Neville Mary Hutchinson in the socialite Jinny Vanessa Bell in the fleeing Susan and Thoby Stephen in the flawed and never narrator Percival.Written by the Bloomsbury author Virginia Woolf a central figure of the literary group herself known for her experimental writings and affair with fellow author Vita Sackville-West. Published by the Hogarth Press the Bloomsbury publishing house founded ran by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The press was founded in the interwar period as printing became a hobby for the couple diverting Virginia when her writing became too stressful. Both Woolfs' taught themselves to use a printing press publishing 527 titles from the period of 1917 to 1946. In the original publisher's cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Spine and extremities are a little discoloured. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn with some chips and closed tears mostly to the head and tail of the spine. Light discoloration and a few minor marks to the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. Near Fine The Hogarth Press hardcover
1927140946481London: The Hogarth Press 1927. First Edition Thus. Very Good. First fully illustrated edition third overall copy 382 of a limited 500 hand-numbered by Virginia Woolf in her distinctive purple ink. Bounds in original illustrated paper-covered boards after a design by Vanessa Bell edges untrimme; with decorative floral frames throughout the text also by Bell. Near Fine with small loss to corners and spine ends. Foxing and rubbing to rear board contents lightly toned and with occasional offsetting. A lovely copy of this short novel by Virginia Woolf set in the infamous Kew Gardens of London. Its unexpected success was "the most dramatic factor in the Woolf's becoming significant commercial publishers." Woolmer 155. The Hogarth Press unknown
1923140948611Greenwich CT: The Dial Publishing Company 1923. First Edition. Near Fine. July 1923 issue of The Dial featuring a short story by Virginia Woolf that would be the precursor to her novel and best-known work Mrs. Dalloway. Found on page 20-27 the eight page short story entitled "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" is an early draft of the novel's opening sequence one in which the London hostess Clarissa Dalloway sets out to buy gloves rather than flowers on the morning of her party. Bound in publisher's salmon wraps printed in black. i-xii 104 xiii-xx. Near Fine with light edge wear several small partially-erased pencil markings to covers. A fragile production of this important milestone uncommon in such nice condition. The Dial Publishing Company unknown
69880Richmond Surrey Nov. 27th no year. Lightly creased; otherwise fine. 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 inches. Woolf expresses her great pleasure that the reviewer liked her novel and wonders if a review was written and published. About 75 words. unknown
192569152 Tavistock Square London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1925. Near fine / Fine. <p>Octavo. Beautifully bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London in twentieth century 3/4 red morocco and red cloth back in six compartments gilt lettered in the second and third dated "1925" in sixth five raised bands top edge gilt cream endpapers portion of original front board and spine bound in at conclusion of text. Minor foxing to prelims a near fine copy in a gorgeous contemporary binding. <br /> <br /> First edition first impression. Published 14 May 1925; c. 2000 copies printed and sold at 7s. 6d. "We find it in Woolf's decision to turn Clarissa Dalloway a minor character in her first novel The Voyage Out 1915 into the main character of her story 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street' 1923 - and then after discovering that Clarissa clamored for more life in her slow surrender to the novel. We find it stitched through her largest revision to the book: the creation of Septimus as Clarissa's double so as to entwine the story of an aging wealthy vivacious woman with the story of the First World War and its consequences. Her most famous diary entry about Mrs. Dalloway presents the two characters as metaphysical and political extremes: 'I want to give life & death sanity & insanity; I want to criticise the social system & to show it at work at its most intense.' Yet as soon as she voiced this she retracted it. 'But here I may be posing' she wrote." - Merve Emre The New Yorker 28 August 2021. I think not.</p> . KIRKPATRICK & CLARKE A9a; WOOLMER 82. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press unknown
192121202311921. Richmond: Printed and Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. 1921. 8vo. Card covers printed with a woodcut design in red featuring a tiger surrounded by palm trees flowers and pineapples; pp. iv 5-55 1; wrappers browned with chips to spine ends and lower corner of upper cover; creased along edges and spine; water tide mark to lower cover; rust mark to ffep affecting the upper corner of the first few pages; a very good copy regardless of a scarce work.First edition sole impression of a purported print run of just 300 copies with a cover artwork by Dora Carrington an artist closely associated with the Bloomsbury group and a close friend of Lytton Strachey.Published in April 1921 and handprinted by Leonard and Virginia Woolf Stories of the East was one of six books published by Hogarth in 1925 and ultimately its most successful. Leonard's stories outsold all but Gorky's second book The Notebooks of Tchekhov and Virginia's Monday or Tuesday and in the scale of press operations it was perhaps its most successful venture.In March 1915 Leonard and Virginia Woolf had moved to Hogarth House Richmond and were experiencing a particularly turbulent time in their lives. Virginia's first novel The Voyage Out was published that same year and in an attempt to find an activity to occupy themselves with Leonard suggested they purchase a book press. Along with some old typeface and some necessary implements and materials they set about the task with enthusiasm and their first work a collection of two short stories by Virginia was printed in July 1917. All in all sixteen of the thirty-two books which were published during the years that the press was in Richmond 1917 to 1924 were printed by the Woolfs' own hand. A collection of three short stories 'Pearls and Swine' 'A Tale Told by Midnight' and 'The Two Brahmans' each story painting a picture of Leonard Woolf's fear and mistrust of colonialism as well as the uncomfortable moral ground occupied by the servants of the British Government in Ceylon prior to the Great War. unknown
1920WOOLFVIR025042Duckworth London. 1920. Second impression: one of 1000 copies issued in the Covent Garden Library. Octavo. pp iv 538. Two pages of adverts for The Voyage Out at rear. Dark blue cloth with gilt decoration to spine. By 1929 when Duckworth transferred the sheets and moulds to the Hogarth Press only 566 copies of this second impression had been sold see Kirkpatrick A4.Small ownership signature on front free endpaper. Edges slightly spotted. Very good indeed in the very scarce dustwrapper unseen by Kirkpatrick which is lightly tanned at the spine and with a small chip and a few nicks. Duckworth, London. hardcover
