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VIRGINIA WOOLF. Mrs. Dalloway. A novel. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1925. First edition. 8vo. 293pp. 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 2,000 copies were printed. Kirkpatrick A9 / Woolmer 82. £2,500

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Atalanta’s Garland. Being the Book of the Edinburgh University Women’s Union. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 1926. First edition – issued to celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of the opening of the Edinburgh University Women’s Union. 8vo. vix, 191pp. White buckram with white and tan decorated paper sides and a printed paper title label. With a captioned tissue-protected colour frontispiece and eleven plates, three of them also in colour (one of which is a reproduction of a watercolour by Katherine Cameron) and nine of them with captioned tissue protectors, as required. A small area of indeterminate staining to the base of the backstrip and a touch of spotting to the free endpapers and to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy with the uncommon Otto Schlapp-designed dust wrapper, a little darkened and spotted with an inch or so of loss from the spine panel ends. Virginia Woolf contributes an original five-page essay, A Woman’s College from the Outside, which includes a full-page photograph of the author. Other contributors include W.H.Davies (his poems Where Shall We Live and Contented Hearts), Katherine Mansfield (Two Unpublished Sketches), Hugh MacDiarmid (his Penny Wheep poem Hungry Waters, here set to music by Francis George Scott), Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare (his poem The Snail), T.Sturge Moore, Edwin Muir, Charlotte Mew, Gordon Bottomley &c. 2,000 copies were printed (of which 750 were subsequently pulped). Kirkpatrick B6 (for both Woolf and Mansfield), in the primary tan patterned binding (a total of five binding variants have been identified). £275

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Virginia Woolf and the Raverats. A Different Sort of Friendship. Edited by William Pryor. Clear Books, Bath 2003. First edition. This copy inscribed by the editor at the head of the half-title and dated the year after publication (the signing occasion was a promotional event at the National Portrait Gallery). Small 4to. 205pp. Illustrated throughout with drawings, paintings, wood engravings, photographs and manuscript reproductions, including thirteen in colour. A fine copy in dust wrapper, with some fading to the spine panel and a further vertical strip of fading to one margin of the front panel. A five-page introduction by the editor (the grandson of Gwen and Jacques Raverat) precedes a selection of letters and journal entries (including many hitherto unprinted) charting the relationship between Woolf and the Raverats. £30

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Caroline Zoob. Virginia Woolf’s Garden. The Story of the Garden at Monk’s House. With photographs by Caroline Arber and a foreword by Cecil Woolf. Jacqui Small, London 2013. First UK edition, issued the same year as the US edition. 4to. 192pp. Lavishly illustrated with photographs throughout, predominantly in colour, and also with various colour reproductions of the author’s embroideries of various aspects of the garden. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. £35

BLOOMSBURY. Isabelle Anscombe. Omega and After. Bloomsbury and the Decorative Arts. With photographs by Howard Grey and a two-page foreword by John Lehmann. Thames & Hudson, London 1981. First edition. 4to. 176pp. Illustrated with over 120 photographs and reproductions, including twenty in colour. Faint ghost of a few pencil marks to the front free endpaper, else a fine copy in laminated dust wrapper with a small kink to the upper edge. Will you help save Charleston? Folding handbill laid-in.  Chapters include Roger Fry and the foundation of the Omega Workshop, Vanessa Bell and the development of an idea, The war years, and The Ending of the Omega. £30

BLOOMSBURY.  Julian Bell. Genesis. St. Anne’s Galleries, Lewes 2015. First edition, issued to accompany a 2015 exhibition at St. Anne’s Galleries, Lewes. This copy signed by the author on the half-title. Landscape 4to. [44pp]. A fine copy. No dust wrapper called for. Fully illustrated record of the artist’s thirty-seven oil panel paintings which represent a new interpretation of the first thirty-three chapters of the Bible (Bell’s initial series of drawings for the project were destroyed along with his entire studio in a March 2014 fire). £50

BLOOMSBURY. Quentin Bell and Virginia Nicholson. Charleston. A Bloomsbury House & Garden. With photographs by Alen MacWeeney. Frances Lincoln Ltd., London 1997. First edition. This copy signed by Virginia Nicholson on the title page. Landscape 4to. 152pp. Lavishly illustrated with photographs and reproductions throughout, predominantly in colour and including many full-page examples. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £50

BLOOMSBURY. Peter Blee. The Bloomsbury Group in Berwick Church. The Decorative Scheme by Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell & Quentin Bell. St Michael and All Angels, Berwick 2016. First edition. 8vo. 182pp. Illustrated with over 120 photographs and reproductions, predominantly in colour. In fine state with fine dust wrapper. A scholarly account of the commissioning and completion of the paintings and decorations which augment the interior of St Michael and All Angels Church in Berwick, East Sussex. Folding Berwick Church Paintings Appeal leaflet laid-in. £25

“They must, I think, be accounted among the best paintings to be made in a church or chapel in England during the present century” – Sir John Rothenstein.

BLOOMSBURY. Leon Edel. Bloomsbury - A House of Lions. With illustrations. Lippincott, Philadelphia 1979. First edition. A very bright copy in slightly rubbed dust wrapper. £10

BLOOMSBURY. Sue Snell. The Garden at Charleston. A Bloomsbury Garden Through the Seasons. Frances Lincoln Ltd., London 2010. First edition. This copy signed by the author on the front free endpaper. 4to. 112pp. Lavishly illustrated with 150 colour photographs. A tiny hint of wear to the backstrip ends, else a fine copy in fine dust wrapper. A photographic record of the garden at Charleston Farmhouse in East Sussex, the home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. £35

BLOOMSBURY. Frances Spalding. National Portrait Gallery Insights. The Bloomsbury Group. National Portrait Gallery Publications, London 2005. First edition. 8vo. 108pp. With colour pictorial endpapers and seventy photographs and reproductions including many colour examples. A fine copy in very good dust wrapper, just fractionally rubbed at one or two extremities. Short biographical accounts of the lives and work of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Clive Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry. Lytton Strachey, Dors Carrington, Lady Ottoline Morrell, E.M.Forster, Frances Partridge, Gerald Brenan, David Garnett and half a dozen other ‘bloomsberries’. £15

BLOOMSBURY. James & Alix Strachey. Bloomsbury/Freud. The Letters of James and Alix Strachey 1924-1925. Edited by Perry Meisel & Walter Kendrick.  Basic Books, New York 1985.  First edition. A fine copy in dust wrapper. Review slip. £20

HOGARTH PRESS. Duncan Grant. A monograph. With a five-page introduction by Roger Fry. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1923. First edition – one of no more than 400 casebound copies (a rather more common second edition bound in wrappers was issued seven years later). 4to. xi + 24 plates to alternate rectos and with captions to adjacent versos. Cloth-backed decorated paper-covered boards, designed by Grant in the best Omega Workshop style, with a paper spine label. The backstrip cloth and spine label toned, and with some quite light soiling and marking to the boards. A trace of bruising to the backstrip ends. A tiny smattering of light spotting to the List of Illustrations leaf, and a single tiny blemish to the margin of a single plate. A very good copy of a most uncommon item. This was conceived as the first in a series of books on living painters, but no subsequent examples were produced. Woolmer 31. £1,000

“Duncan Grant may almost be called a popular artist. He has not, of course, a big popularity, nor is he likely ever to obtain it. But he has, for so pure and uncompromising an artist, a surprisingly large circle of genuine admirers. I hasten to add that he has never done a single stroke of work with a view to ingratiate himself. He pleases, but merely by the accident of being what he is, never because he has sought in any way to satisfy the possible demands of the public” – From Fry’s introduction.

HOGARTH PRESS. Herbert E.Palmer. Songs of Salvation, Sin and Satire. Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, London [1925]. First edition, limited to “about 300 copies” (Woolmer), hand-printed by the Woolfs. This copy signed by the author at the base of the prologue. Slim 8vo. 32pp. Patterned paper-covered boards with a title label to the upper board. Some considerable fading to the boards, and some spotting to the title label. Spine ends and corner tips gently rubbed, and with some quite light spotting throughout. A good copy. A two-page preface by the author precedes a four-line verse prologue and twenty-six songs. Not the nicest copy, but quite a scare title, and uncommon with Palmer’s signature. Woolmer 72. £150

HOGARTH PRESS. Herbert Edward Palmer. The Judgement of François Villon. A Pageant-Episode in Five Acts. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1927. First edition – number 22 of 400 numbered copies. 143pp. Decorated quarter-bound parchment-backed boards. Small bump to the tip of a single corner and parchment just a little tarnished. A lovely crisp copy, lacking the dust wrapper. It would appear that the majority of this edition (of which there were apparently 475 copies rather than the 400 noted on the colophon) were signed by Palmer, but this one is merely numbered. Woolmer 140. £35

ROBERT H.HULL. Delius. An essay. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, ‘The Hogarth Essays’ series, London 1928. First edition. Small 8vo. 45pp + [ii] publisher’s advertisement for other volumes in the series. Card wrappers featuring a red series design [unaccredited, but by Venassa Bell]. A touch of very minor spotting to the fore edge margin of two or three preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy. Issued as the twelfth number of the Hogarth Essays series (second series), this forty-one page essay is expanded for its original appearance in The Musical Times. Uncommon. Woolmer 166. £95

HOGARTH PRESS. Herbert Read. Phases of English Poetry. Leonard & Virginia Woolf and The Hogarth Press, ‘Hogarth Lectures’ series 1928. First edition. 8vo. 158pp.. Free endpapers quite lightly toned, and with some pencilled marginalia to two adjacent text leaves, which I have elected to leave in place. A very good copy in the uncommon dust wrapper, which is quite toned at the spine panel making the spine panel lettering quite difficult to make out, and with a single minute area of edge-loss. A two-page preface by the author precedes six lectures on English verse. Woolmer 170. £75

HOGARTH PRESS. Herbert E.Palmer. The Armed Muse. Poems. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London 1930. First edition. Slim 8vo. 44pp + [vii] advertisements. Green marbled paper-covered boards with a printed paper title label to the upper board. Some fading to the board margins, and a tiny indentation to the head of the upper board. A very good copy. No dust wrapper called for. Twenty-three poems including a number of Great War verses. Printed dedication to Roy Campbell. Wolmer 230 / Reilly p.248. £75

HOGARTH PRESS. Alice Ritchie. Occupied Territory. A novel. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1930. First edition. 8vo. 240pp. A crease to the cloth at the upper board. The edges, endpapers and several preliminary and concluding leaves lightly spotted. The half-title and final text leaf toned. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. The author’s most uncommon second book (she would go on to write a series of children’s books illustrated by her sister Trekkie Parsons, who became the companion of Leonard Woolf following the death of Virginia). Woolmer 233. £350

HOGARTH PRESS. George Rylands. Poems. L. & V. Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1931. First edition, limited to 350 numbered copies signed by the author (this being #340, and the earliest state, with a comma instead of a period after Leonard Woolf’s initial at the base of the title page). Slim 8vo. Unpaginated [16 pages of printed text]. Decorated paper-covered boards with a three-colour vertical design. Lettered title label to the upper wrapper. Some fading to the spine. Very good indeed and housed in the original unprinted tissue protector which is lightly creased at the upper edge and with one tiny fraction of loss. Fourteen poems. Woolmer 269. £200

HOGARTH PRESS. V.Sackville-West. The Dark Island. A novel. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1934. First edition. 8vo. 317pp. Ben Nicolson-designed map printed to the front pastedown (Nicolson also contributed the dust wrapper lettering). The cloth a little marked and discoloured in places, with some spotting to the edges and to very, very occasional text leaves. Royal Naval War Libraries inkstamp to the head of the front pastedown. A very good copy in somewhat marked and soiled dust wrapper, with two or three tiny portions of edge-loss. 10,590 copies were printed. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A30 / Woolmer 351. £125

HOGARTH PRESS. Iris Origo. Allegra. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1935. First edition. This copy fondly inscribed by the author (“Always affectionately”) to an un-named recipient at the head of the front free endpaper. 8vo. 119pp. With four plates of photographs and manuscript reproductions. Errata slip laid-in, as issued. The cloth a little marked and soiled, with some dust soiling to the top edge, and some light spotting to the fore edge, and a touch more to occasional leaf margins. Free endpapers browned. A nice crisp copy in dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel and with a touch of light edge-creasing and wear. Quite uncommon, and much more so with the author’s signature. 1,268 copies were printed. Woolmer 373. £350

HOGARTH PRESS. Julian Bell. Work for the Winter and Other Poems. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, ‘Hogarth Living Poets’ series, London 1936. First edition [of which 750 copies were printed]. 8vo. 68pp. Paper-covered boards featuring a series design by John Banting. The backstrip toned, and with a touch of further toning to the board margins, and with the tiniest hint of wear to very occasional extremities. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. Very good indeed. Thirty-two poems, plus a translation from Rimbaud (produced in collaboration with Charles Mauron). The author’s most uncommon second and final regularly published collection of verse, published sixteen-months before his death (Bell, the eldest son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, was hit with bomb fragments whilst working as a volunteer ambulance driver during the Spanish Civil War). Woolmer 382. £300