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1960Best.-Nr. 739L50None: 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
1922Best.-Nr. 10314London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1922. A superb Bloomsbury association copy owned and inscribed by David Garnett who published an influential review of this novel in 1923 describing Woolf as 'the most interesting of the younger writers now living as well as the best of them.' Jacob's Room was the first full length work published by the Hogarth Press Woolf's first fully experimental novel and a landmark in 20th century fiction. A prominent member of the Bloomsbury group the writer and publisher David Garnett married Woolf's niece Angelica Garnett in 1942 living at Hilton Hall in Cambridgeshire. Bound in mustard yellow cloth; good colour to the boards a little rubbing to the spine; one tiny chip at the left edge of the spine label; bumps to corners and a scratch across the top of the text block. pp 290 pp14 adverts. David Garnett has written his name at the head of the front flyleaf and below is tipped in an envoy from a letter on blue paper by Woolf herself: 'Your truly Virginia Woolf'. Opposite is Garnett's Hilton Hall bookplate - he and Angelica lived there from the 1940s-1960s. Provenance: from the estate of Garnett's wife Angelica Bell/ Garnett her library dispersed by Angus O'Neill of the Omega Bookshop. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1922 Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 22408The 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
1921Best.-Nr. 377755Richmond: Hogarth Press 1921. First edition one of 300 copies. 55 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original flexible dark tan card wrappers with design by Dora Carrington printed in red; toned overall with darker sunning to spine and upper margins; ownership signature in pencil of first blank; minor rust stains in gutters at staples; otherwise fine. First edition one of 300 copies. 55 1 ad pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Featuring three short stories - "A Tale Told by Moonlight" "Pearls and Swine" and "The Two Brahmans" all of which take place throughout Eastern Asia - and a charming cover design by Dora Carrington this slim volume was just the eighth edition produced by Leonard and Virginia Woolf's fledgling Hogarth Press and thus is one of the more scarce. In a May 13 1921 letter to her sister Vanessa Virginia Woolf wrote "The Daily Mail says that Leonard has written one of the greatest stories of the world Pearls and Swine. In consequence we are flooded with orders and were photographed this morning for the Sphere - as an advertisement merely. My feelings as an artist were ravaged" Letters of Virginia Woolf 1912-1922 p. 470. Woolmer 16; Rhein pp. 14-15; Letters 1912-1922 470 Hogarth Press unknown
1925Best.-Nr. 140941189London: 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
1925Best.-Nr. 140941189London: 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
Best.-Nr. 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. 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. 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'. Kirkpatrick A1c. London, Duckworth, 1927. hardcover
1915Best.-Nr. 33879London: 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. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A1a. 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. A rare addition to any Virginia Woolf Collection. Duckworth hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 1409465281930. Near Fine. ca 1930s. Original black and white photograph of Virginia Woolf undated circa mid-1930's 5 x 7". Near Fine with traces of mounting and marking at verso. A striking and unusual photograph likely taken by Leonard Woolf at their 16th-century cottage Monk's House. Virginia gazes situated with an open book on a decorative chair with fabric designed by her sister Vanessa Bell. Taken within moments of a very similar photograph of Woolf reproduced on the top half of 93 pp. A Marriage of True Minds by Spater & Parsons 1977. The authors of the book do not date the photograph or identify the photographer but this on identical stock to that of a photograph of Leonard Woolf by Virginia Woolf dated 1937 formerly offered by Serendipity Books with Peter Howard's typed note to that effect. unknown
1930Best.-Nr. 1409465281930. Near Fine. ca 1930s. Original black and white photograph of Virginia Woolf undated circa mid-1930's 5 x 7". Near Fine with traces of mounting and marking at verso. A striking and unusual photograph likely taken by Leonard Woolf at their 16th-century cottage Monk's House. Virginia gazes situated with an open book on a decorative chair with fabric designed by her sister Vanessa Bell. Taken within moments of a very similar photograph of Woolf reproduced on the top half of 93 pp. A Marriage of True Minds by Spater & Parsons 1977. The authors of the book do not date the photograph or identify the photographer but this on identical stock to that of a photograph of Leonard Woolf by Virginia Woolf dated 1937 formerly offered by Serendipity Books with Peter Howard's typed note to that effect. unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 140944766London: 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 uneven sunning and light wear to cloth corners pushed in foxing to textblock edge and an inscription from a former owner to the front free endpaper. A very sharp and lovely copy of one of Virginia Woolf's best-known works published by Virginia and her husband Leonard at their Hogarth Press. The Hogarth Press unknown books
1925Best.-Nr. 140947609London: The Hogarth Press 1925. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's rust cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. vi 293 2 pp. Near Fine with trace fading to spine and upper edge of rear board light rubbing at spine ends and corners former owner's bookplate at front pastedown and foxing to front and rear signatures. Offsetting to endsheets and bookseller's ticket at rear pastedown. A fantastic copy of Woolf's best-known work that follows the main character Clarissa Dalloway through one day of her life in upper class London society. Kirkpatrick & Clark A9.a. The Hogarth Press unknown
1928Best.-Nr. 150565New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. First limited edition of Woolf’s immensely popular feminist classic one of only 800 copies signed by her in her characteristic purple ink. Octavo original publisher's cloth decorated in gilt top edge gilt engraved frontispiece portrait of Orlando as a boy illustrated with engravings. One of 800 numbered copies this is number 512. Boldly signed by Woolf on the verso of the half-title page. Typography by Frederic Warde. In fine condition. A very sharp example. Woolf is considered to be one of the greatest twentieth century novelists and one of the pioneers among modernist writers using stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Following her 1912 marriage to Leonard Woolf the couple founded the Hogarth Press in 1917 which published much of her work. Arguably one of Woolf's most popular novels Orlando describes the adventures of a poet who changes sex from man to woman and lives for centuries meeting the key figures of English literary history. Considered a feminist classic the book has been written about extensively by scholars of women's writing and gender and transgender studies and has been adapted a number of times for stage and screen. Crosby Gaige hardcover
1927Best.-Nr. 021356London: The Hogarth Press 1927. First Illustrated Edition. Hardcover. Title and limitation pages with moderate foxing light foxing scattered throughout; front board very slightly bowed light rubbing to boards and corners. Very Good. Vanessa Bell. Third Edition and the First Illustrated Edition bound in the original brown and white paper-covered boards with Vanessa Bell's illustrations expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down; 45 pages with text printed on rectos only and with decorations by Vanessa Bell on every page. Copy #118 of only 500 numbered copies some of which as is this copy were SIGNED by both the author and the illustrator. First published in 1919 with only two illustrations by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell this is the most desirable edition of this short story. The Hogarth Press hardcover books
1925Best.-Nr. 140947609London: The Hogarth Press 1925. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's rust cloth with spine lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. vi 293 2 pp. Near Fine with trace fading to spine and upper edge of rear board light rubbing at spine ends and corners former owner's bookplate at front pastedown and foxing to front and rear signatures. Offsetting to endsheets and bookseller's ticket at rear pastedown. A fantastic copy of Woolf's best-known work that follows the main character Clarissa Dalloway through one day of her life in upper class London society. Kirkpatrick & Clark A9.a. The Hogarth Press unknown books
1928Best.-Nr. 112233445566818The First UK printing published by The Hogarth Press London in 1928. The BOOK is in Very Good or better condition. Original publisher's orange cloth with gilt titles to the spine are bright. The binding remains tight. Some very light pushing at the spine ends. A hint of toning with some spotting to the text-block. Some offsetting to the blank end-papers with some light spotting to the pastedowns and prelims. Internally some spotting in places more-so to the page edges in a handful of places. Free from inscriptions. The scarce fragile WRAPPER is complete and is in Very Good or better condition. Very minor edge-wear at the spine ends and upper edges with one very small triangular chip to the lower rear edge. Some mild edge-wear with some small closed tears creasing and nicks in places with some tape reinforcement to the edges in places to the verso. Some light age related markings. Correctly priced '9s net' to the spine. The wrapper has NOT undergone any restoration and presents extremely well in the removable Brodart archival cover. With a frontispiece and 7 further photographic illustrations taken by Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell at Knole House. Woolf 's love letter to Vita Sackville-West a masterpiece of feminist literature. Published by The Hogarth Press in a first edition of only 5080 copies preceded by the signed limited edition of 861 copies published in New York nine days earlier Kirkpatrick A11b; Woolmer 185. The basis for the 1992 Academy Award nominated film directed by Sally Potter and starring Tilda Swinton. An excellent sharp copy of Woolf's masterpiece and what is now an extremely elusive title. Housed in a custom Wyvern Bindery solander box with gilt titling and suede inserts. One of the nicest copies that we have handled. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact. The Hogarth Press : London hardcover
1932Best.-Nr. 132047New York: Harcourt Brace and Company 1932. First edition of the second collection of Woolf's critical essays. Octavo original cloth. Boldly signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed. Woolf's second collection of critical writings this volume contains twenty-six essays on the most brilliant figures in three centuries of English literature ranging from the magnificent Jack Mytton and Mary the high-handed hot-blooded wife of Shelley to the little whimsical religious Christina Rossetti and the bedeviled George Gissing. Other essays critique the work and character of Defoe Swift Hazlitt Hardy and Meredith. Harcourt, Brace and Company hardcover
Best.-Nr. 37165a French writer who had written a sympathetic critical analysis of Mrs. Dalloway she starts by saying that she well remembers meeting her last winter and goes on to thank her "for your very generous and what is better highly intelligent study of Mrs. Dalloway. I am very grateful to you for the care and skill which you have spent on my work - it seems to me one of the subtlest & most interesting studies of it that I have read. No doubt you have praised it too highly - of that an author cannot judge -but to be praised for the qualities one had wished to possess is a great pleasure & a rare one. I am particularly interested that a French critic should be so sympathetic; my faults are those I should have said that your race most abominates." 1 side 4to. 52 Tavistock Square 14th July In Mrs. Dalloway which was published in 1925 Woolf experimented with the stream-of-consciousness technique which she later perfected in To the Lighthouse 1927 Orlando 1928 and other novels. unknown
1927Best.-Nr. 185114London: The Hogarth Press 1927. Signed by both sisters First fully illustrated edition third overall signed by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell though not called for in the limitation. It is hand-numbered by Virginia Woolf as number 106 from a limited edition of 500 copies. The collaboration between author and artist during its initial publication in 1919 held a great personal importance to Woolf who saw it as a means of "binding herself to her sister" Willis p. 31. Bell's designs for this edition occur on every page of text acting as borders punctuation bridges or disruptions into the type-set text. In contrast the first and second editions of 1919 only had a frontispiece and finispiece by Bell and she was not satisfied with them. Kew Gardens was Virginia Woolf's third published book and one of her early shorter fictions which "were less stories than theoretical expositions of the new form of fiction that she had come upon" ODNB. Its unexpected success was "the most dramatic factor in the Woolfs' becoming significant commercial publishers" Woolmer p. xxiii. Sales dramatically increased following a review in the Times Literary Supplement hailing it as "a work of art. a thing of original and therefore strange beauty with its own 'atmosphere' its own vital force" 29 May 1919. Octavo 249 x 185 mm. Decorative floral frames throughout the text by Vanessa Bell. Title page printed in brown. Text printed on rectos only. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in brown morocco titles blocked to spine in cream onlay to front board copied from the original decorated paper boards designed by Vanessa Bell decorative endpapers based on designs by Vanessa Bell in loop and spot pattern gilt edges. Some spotting to title page an excellent copy in a fine binding. Kirkpatrick A3c; Woolmer 155 both noting that "some" copies were signed by Woolf and Bell. John H. Willis Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers 1992. hardcover
1928Best.-Nr. 190823New York: Crosby Gaige 1928. Limited and first American edition signed by Woolf First edition signed limited issue number 523 of 861 copies signed by the author on the verso of the half title page in her customary purple ink. Woolf's Orlando is widely recognized as a masterpiece of modernist and feminist literature and it remains among her best-known works. Octavo 222 x 149 mm. Frontispiece and 7 halftone photographic illustrations including 3 of Vita Sackville-West as Orlando. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco spine lettered and decorated with centre tool in gilt burgundy endpapers twin rule to turn-in gilt gilt edges. A fine copy. unknown
1929Best.-Nr. 140949133London: The Hogarth Press 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. 172 pp. Bound in publisher's terra cotta cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with lean to spine light wear and soiling to cloth and very slight bumping to lower corners. Typical offsetting from jacket to free endpapers one gathering misaligned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light wear foxing toning and soiling. Partial split at front spine fold reinforced with archival tape to verso. Kirkpatrick & Clarke A12b. The first edition of the classic feminist text in which Woolf argues the need for women's financial independence from men. The book is based on two lectures delivered to students at Newnham and Girton Cambridge's underfunded and second-class colleges for women who could not be awarded full degrees until 1948. Woolf compared her visits to male and female educational institutions: "Why did men drink wine and women water Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor What effect has poverty on fiction What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art The Hogarth Press unknown
1929Best.-Nr. 140946384London: The Hogarth Press 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original salmon cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with ownership bookplate of writer Olga Jamison to front pastedown light offsetting to endsheets and evidence of small appendage bookseller ticket removed pastedown. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell with light toning to spine light chipping minor splitting to joints small tears to top edge of front panel. Virginia Woolf's classic feminist essay presented to students at Newnham College and Girton College and women's college at University of Cambridge. Woolf argues in this influential work that women need educational and financial independence from men in order to thrive as whole beings. A fantastic copy with provenance of writer Olga Jamison who wrote scripts for 30's Western films. The Hogarth Press unknown
1929Best.-Nr. 140949133London: The Hogarth Press 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. 172 pp. Bound in publisher's terra cotta cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with lean to spine light wear and soiling to cloth and very slight bumping to lower corners. Typical offsetting from jacket to free endpapers one gathering misaligned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with light wear foxing toning and soiling. Partial split at front spine fold reinforced with archival tape to verso. Kirkpatrick & Clarke A12b. The first edition of the classic feminist text in which Woolf argues the need for women's financial independence from men. The book is based on two lectures delivered to students at Newnham and Girton Cambridge's underfunded and second-class colleges for women who could not be awarded full degrees until 1948. Woolf compared her visits to male and female educational institutions: "Why did men drink wine and women water Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor What effect has poverty on fiction What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art The Hogarth Press unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 140946384London: The Hogarth Press 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition first printing. Bound in publisher's original salmon cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with ownership bookplate of writer Olga Jamison to front pastedown light offsetting to endsheets and evidence of small appendage bookseller ticket removed pastedown. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell with light toning to spine light chipping minor splitting to joints small tears to top edge of front panel. Virginia Woolf's classic feminist essay presented to students at Newnham College and Girton College and women's college at University of Cambridge. Woolf argues in this influential work that women need educational and financial independence from men in order to thrive as whole beings. A fantastic copy with provenance of writer Olga Jamison who wrote scripts for 30's Western films. The Hogarth Press unknown books
1929Best.-Nr. 005139New York and London: Fountain press/Hogarth Press 1929. First Edition . Cloth. Near Fine. Tall Octavo. Original red cloth gilt title 9.75 x 6 inches 159 pages plus numbered colophon. Signed limited first edition number 261 of 492 copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink on the half title page of which only 450 were for sale. Printed in U.S. by Robert Josephy and published on October 21 1929 this edition preceded the English edition both signed and trade by three days Kirkpatrick A12. Woolmer 215A. Exterior is in exceptionally fine condition cloth is clean and bright the corners tight; internally there is a closed tear along edge on page 65 presumely from hastily opening the uncut page binding is tight overall a desirable copy of this classic feminist text. Fountain press/Hogarth Press hardcover
