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196030747Monk's House 1960. Writing in response to a graduate student's question as to whether Mrs Chavasse a village neighbor mentioned in A Writer's Diary was in any way connnected with a character Mrs Manresa mentioned in Between the Acts. He replies that "she is not in he least like Mrs Manresa. She is like the Queen in ALICE IN WONDERLAND." <br/><br/> unknown 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
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
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
1962WRCLIT73737London: Dent / Everyman's Library 1962. Cloth. A good copy in rubbed and sunned dust jacket. Poet / translator / publisher Cid Corman's copy with his 1963 ownership inscription frequent marginal highlights and underscores and occasional manuscript notes and comments. Dent / Everyman's Library hardcover books
1927015059Harcourt Brace and Company 1927. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Near Fine copy Letters of Spine Faded in a New Facsimile Jacket. First American Edition.1 In Copyright Beautiful Fresh Copy. Harcourt Brace and Company Hardcover books
1927013784Harcourt Brace and Company 1927. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First American Edition 1 in Copyright Near Fine Copy. Her Best Novel Excellent Fresh Copy. Harcourt Brace and Company Hardcover books
1990263442New York: Harcourt for Borders Books 1990. Hardcover. 236p. very good reissue in boards and unclipped dj. Harcourt for Borders Books 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
1981WELLER9780156907392Harcourt 1981. New. New book. Harcourt unknown books
1927WN44938New York: Harcourt Brace and Co. 1927. Original light green cloth with dark green lettering and vignette of lighthouse on upper board. Some crumpling and wear at spine ends and corners. Owner signature on reverse of ffep. Some pasteaction on endpapers. Embossed dealer name and address at bottom of postliminary. Clean and good copy of Woolf classic. First American Edition. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Trade. Harcourt, Brace and Co. Hardcover books
19371334716New York: The Modern Library 1937. Hardcover. 12mo; G-/Fair; Hardcover with DJ; DJ spine blue with white print; DJ in mylar rear hinge is torn the length of the DJ separating it from the DJ spine front hinge is also torn tears at spine ends and flap corners edgewear with creasing shelfwear; Boards in blue cloth with gold print on red banner wear to spine caps and corners mildly cocked spine light shelfwear; Text block has red tinted top edge significant amount of pencil notation throughout; xiii 310 pages. 1334716. FP New Rockville Stock. The Modern Library hardcover books
1979WRCLIT32561New York: Holt Rinehart & Winston 1979. Cloth and boards. Photographs. First U.S. edition. A fine copy in lightly rubbed dust jacket. Holt, Rinehart & Winston hardcover books
16900London: Routledge & Keegan Paul n.d. n.ed. Cloth. A very good copy with soiled spine. No just jacket. 267 pp. Illus. with b/w drawings. 12mo. Routledge & Keegan Paul hardcover books
193819211New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1938. Cloth. Very Good /Very Good. A solid copy of the 1938 stated 1st American edition. Tight and VG very slight lean to the binding in a bright price-intact VG example of the Vanessa Bell-illustrated dustjacket with light chipping at the spine ends and very mild creasing and chipping along the rear edges. Thick octavo 5 crisp black-and-white photographs supplementing Woolf's text. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover books
1938291980New York: Harcourt 1938. First. hardcover. fine. 8vo handsomely rebound in full black morocco gilt spine with raised bands; marbled end papers top edge gilt. New York: Harcourt 1938. First American Edition. Fine.<br/><br/> Harcourt unknown books
1938140938226London: The Hogarth Press 1938. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original yellow cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Near Fine with faint toning to spine previous owner bookplate and offsetting to endsheets and a short edge tear to the illustration contents page. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell with faint edge wear and faint soiling. A beautiful copy of a book generally found in much lesser condition. The Hogarth Press unknown books
193859148NY: Harcourt Brace 1938. First American edn. 8vo pp. 329. A very good copy. Kirkpatrick A23b. Harcourt Brace unknown books
1938WRCLIT79880London: The Hogarth Press 1938. Pale yellow cloth. Photographs. Usual tan offsetting to endsheets some wear to crown of spine and lightly sunned spine just a good copy in fragmentary Vanessa Bell dust jacket. First edition first issue binding one of somewhat more than half of the 16250 copies printed bound thus -- the remainder were issued in the Uniform Edition. KIRKPATRICK A23a. WOOLMER 440. The Hogarth Press hardcover books
193863040New York: Harcourt Brace and Co 1938. First American edition review copy stamped by the publisher on the front endpaper "Review Copy / Publication Date / Aug. 25 1938 Price $2.50". 8vo. 6 285 pp. Verso of dust jacket reinforced at head of spine else very good. Rust cloth gilt spine title decorated dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell rubbed price clipped spine darkened. 9578. <br/><br/> Harcourt, Brace and Co hardcover books
193830526London: Hogarth Press 1938. First edition. Yellow cloth dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. 329 pp. An about very good copy with a sizeable stain to the lower quarter of both boards and their respective pastedowns minimally affecting free endpapers; moderate wear to extremities; spine toned. Dust jacket lightly stained in same areas and to flaps; spine toned with hint of loss to ends; upper corners chipped. Kirkpatrick A23; Woolmer 440. <br/><br/> Hogarth Press hardcover books
193830882London: Hogarth Press 1938. First edition. Yellow cloth dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. 329 pp. Cloth soiled mild lean. Dust jacket worn and missing chips Kirkpatrick A23; Woolmer 440. <br/><br/> Hogarth Press hardcover books
1938279189New York: Harcourt 1938. First. hardcover. very good-. 8vo cloth binding sunned rubbed & with name in red ink on corner of cover; rear inner hinge cracked. New York: Harcourt Brace 1938. First American Edition.<br/><br/> The interior is clean but for a rubber-stamp on the flyleaf: Review Copy Publication Date Aug 25 1938<br/><br/> Harcourt unknown books
1938227579London: The Hogarth Press 1938. First edition. Illustrated with 5 half-tone plates. 329 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original yellow cloth. Fine in very good plus dust-jacket by Vanessa Bell spine toned. First edition. Illustrated with 5 half-tone plates. 329 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Kirkpatrick A23 The Hogarth Press unknown books
1938WRCLIT66078London: The Hogarth Press 1938. Pale yellow cloth. Five black & white half- tone illustrations. Usual tan offsetting to gutters of endsheets otherwise a bright near fine copy in good Vanessa Bell dust jacket a bit sunned and lightly soiled chip at toe of lower joint and spine penetrating 1" and costing several letters of the imprint and short tear at one fore-tip. First edition first issue binding one of somewhat more than half of the 16250 copies printed bound thus -- the remainder were issued in the Uniform Edition. KIRKPATRICK A23a. WOOLMER 440. The Hogarth Press hardcover books