WOOLF VIRGINIA.ABAA
Woolf Virginia.ABAA
Street Haunting.
1930109901Sm. San Francisco: The Westgate Press 1930. Sm. slim 8vo iv 34 pp. Original purple quarter morocco and boards backstrip lettered in gilt backstrip refurbished. Internally as new. § Limited edition signed in purple ink by Virginia Woolf on the colophon page. Presentation copy inscribed by David Magee in pencil “Copy X presentation copy†of 500 signed copies in all. Pencil note by Magee in the back also states that this is “one of a few copies bound in half purpleâ€. In Street Haunting Woolf intertwines the act of walking through a city with the movements of the imagination with echoes of Mrs Dalloway published two years earlier. In the essay "the narrator explores this imaginative act of dipping in and out of people’s minds as they move through the city’s wintry twilight streets. From prime ministers to the homeless the narrator examines the city’s inhabitants and the spaces they occupy. ‘What greater delight and wonder can there be than to leave the straight lines of personality’ the narrator asks to feel ‘that one is not tethered to a single mind but can put on briefly for a few minutes the bodies and minds of others’." The British Library.The essay was first published in the Yale Review October 1927. Kirkpatrick A13 states: "The essay was not published separately in the United Kingdom. It was reprinted in The Death of the Moth and Other Essays and in Collected Essays Vol. 4." The Westgate Press hardcover books
