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ref. PSHB8711Hogarth Press 1928. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine orange cloth very clean pages and endpapers in a very good cream dustjacket some repairs to edges and spine ends a little rubbed with a slightly browned spine else very presentable. First impression of the author's famous novel following the fortunes of an Elizabethan nobleman and poet who changes from man to woman over the course of centuries meeting many eminent English literary figures along the way. Inspired by the family history of Woolf's lover and friend Vita Sackville-West to whom the book is dedicated. Scarce in the jacket. Hogarth Press, 1928 hardcover
1921ref. 317228London: hogarth 1921. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. 16mo cloth backed pictorial boards; light wear to corners & top of spine; back & front flyleaves browned. London: Hogarth Press 1921. First Edition. hogarth unknown
1921ref. 317228London: hogarth 1921. First. hardcover. very good/very good. Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. 16mo cloth backed pictorial boards; light wear to corners & top of spine; back & front flyleaves browned. London: Hogarth Press 1921. First Edition. hogarth unknown books
1925ref. 173197London: Published by Leonard & Virginia The Hogarth Press 1925. Handsomely bound copy First edition of the first of the two volumes of Woolf's Common Reader collecting critical essays articles and book reviews that had previously appeared in various publications. Octavo 210 x 154 mm. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco spine lettered and decorated gilt raised bands twin rule to turn-ins gilt burgundy endpapers gilt edges. Some minor spotting to prelims an excellent copy. Kirkpatrick A8a; Woolmer 81. hardcover
1931ref. WOOLFVIR015689The Hogarth Press London. 1931. First edition. Octavo. A 325-page novel.Small contemporary 1933 ownership signature on front pastedown under the dustwrapper flap. Small fold to top corner of front free endpaper. A bit of fading to head and tail of spine. Edges very faintly spotted. Small bump to bottom corner of rear cover. Very good indeed in very good indeed faintly spotted slightly nicked dustwrapper designed by Vanessa Bell with a fingernail-sized chip at head of spine. A bright copy. The Hogarth Press, London. unknown
1925ref. BC19954Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press London 1925. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 1st Edition. First Edition first printing. 8vo. 293pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. A touch of bruising to the backstrip ends a professional seamless repair to the lower joint and a tiny ink blemish to the head of the rear board. Free endpapers lightly toned and with some spotting to half a dozen preliminary and concluding leaves. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. Circa 2000 copies were printed. Kirkpatrick A9 / Woolmer 82. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London Hardcover
1922ref. 156877London: Hogarth Press 1922. The first full-length book published by the Hogarth Press First edition first impression. Jacob's Room Woolf's third novel was the first full-length book to be published by the Hogarth Press and marked the point from which the Woolfs decided to run the press as a genuine business concern. Octavo 180 x 120 mm. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco spine lettered and decorated gilt raised bands single rule to boards gilt inner dentelles gilt burgundy endpapers gilt edges. Light foxing to prelims and endmatter otherwise a fine copy. hardcover
1928ref. 173732London: Hogarth Press 1928. Handsomely bound copy First trade edition of the author's masterpiece of modernist and feminist literature. Dedicated to Vita Sackville-West whose androgynous personality inspired the character the book was described by her son Nigel Nicolson as "the longest love letter in history". This edition was preceded by the signed limited edition published in New York nine days earlier. Octavo 210 x 134 mm. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco spine lettered and decorated in gilt raised bands single rule to boards gilt twin rule to turn-ins gilt burgundy endpapers gilt edges. The occasional minor blemish an excellent copy in a fine binding. Kirkpatrick A11b; Woolmer 185. hardcover
1953ref. 33199London: The Hogarth Press 1953. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Leonard Woolf. First Edition. Signed. A WRITER'S DIARY. Signed & Dated by Leonard Woolf: The Hogarth Press London 1953. First Edition. 8vo. 312pp. Edited with a preface by Leonard Woolf. Inscribed on the ffe.: "Though actually the gift of Patrick Pritchard I ventured to sign it as an editorial offering to Iris Birtwistle Leonard Woolf Christmas. 1953". Presumably one of his house copies in orange cloth gilt titles to the spine that he gave as a gift. Also included in the book is a postcard addressed to Miss Birtwistle dated January 26 1954 from Mrs. Patrick Pritchard from Surrey: "Have you seen page 346 of V. Woolf's book - 10th line form the bottom refers to Dee" That page talks about the recent bombings in London and mentions Patrick Pritchard and others. Iris Mary Birtwistle was a poet and gallery owner. George Pritchard was a solicitor who as the story goes gave the collection of letters he kept at home by Virginia Woolf Leonard Woolf Leslie Stephen Lytton Strachey Maynard Keynes letters and others to his son Patrick Prichard who passed them on to his wife who later sold them all to a dealer in New York City which caused some unpleasant controversy about their provenance according to Leonard Woolf's biography. A WRITER'S DIARY Reveals glimpses of Virginia Woolf & essential for an understanding of her writing methods & how her thought process influenced her life & relationships. It was not until Woolf's full Diaries were published that they were recognized with her letters as companion as her literary masterpieces. Virginia Woolf kept her diaries from 1915 until her death in 1941. Her husband Leonard Woolf notes in his preface that her "diary gives for 27 years a consecutive record of what she did of the people whom she saw and particularly of what she thought about those people about herself about life and about the books she was writing or hoped to write." Leonard Woolf has here excerpted his wife's diaries from 1918 through 1941 including every reference his wife's diaries made to her own writing. The resulting book "throws light upon Virginia Woolf's intentions objects and methods as a writer. It gives an unusual psychological picture of artistic production from within." Kirkpatrick & Clarke A31a. A rare & desirable Association Copy. The Hogarth Press unknown
1921ref. 194095Richmond: printed and published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1921. Hand printed by the Woolfs First edition of this early Hogarth Press book one of 300 copies hand printed by the Woolfs and with a front wrapper design by Dora Carrington. The stories were inspired by Woolf's time as a civil servant in Ceylon where he served for seven years from 1904. An instant success with all but three copies sold Stories of the East was one of the Hogarth Press's best-sellers beaten only by Gorky's The Note-Books of Tchekhov and Virginia's Monday or Tuesday. Octavo. Wrapper design by Dora Carrington. Original orange card wrappers with pictorial decoration and titles to front wrapper in red. Wrappers a little toned edges creased and nicked as often a few spots of foxing. A very good copy. Woolmer 16. unknown
1921ref. 21202311921. 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
1920ref. WOOLFVIR025042Duckworth 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
ref. 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
1927ref. 140946481London: 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 untrimmed; 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
1931ref. 140949570London: The Hogarth Press 1931. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. 325 pp. printed on laid paper. Bound in publisher's violet cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with slight darkening to spine and fading to extremities light foxing to textblock edges impinging a little on margins throughout and bookplate to front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket by Vanessa Bell with light wear moderate toning and faint foxing more noticeable on verso. Penciled number to back panel several brown paper repairs to verso. Kirkpatrick & Clarke A16a. Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel following the lives of six friends from childhood to maturity. The story is told through soliloquies haunted by the presence of a seventh friend who is never given a voice of his own. The Hogarth Press unknown
1931ref. 140949570London: The Hogarth Press 1931. First Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition first printing. 325 pp. printed on laid paper. Bound in publisher's violet cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with slight darkening to spine and fading to extremities light foxing to textblock edges impinging a little on margins throughout and bookplate to front pastedown. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket by Vanessa Bell with light wear moderate toning and faint foxing more noticeable on verso. Penciled number to back panel several brown paper repairs to verso. Kirkpatrick & Clarke A16a. Virginia Woolf's most experimental novel following the lives of six friends from childhood to maturity. The story is told through soliloquies haunted by the presence of a seventh friend who is never given a voice of his own. The Hogarth Press unknown books
1927ref. 140946481London: 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 untrimmed; 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 books
1931ref. 806P4DLondon: The Hogarth Press 1931. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Vanessa Bell. A stunning 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
1928ref. 1688Great 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. hogarth press hardcover
1925ref. 151114London: 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
1927ref. 323445London: 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. Minor spotting on fore edge hogarth unknown
1927ref. 323445London: 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. Minor spotting on fore edge hogarth unknown books
1928ref. 1621Superb 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. Hogarth press hardcover
1925ref. 140949371New 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. 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
1915ref. 140944870London: 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. 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. 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
