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VIRGINIA WOOLF contributes the first printing of her story An Unwritten Novel to an issue of the periodical The London Mercury, Vol. 2, No. 9, July 1920. 4to. Card wrappers, just a little rubbed and creased at yapped edges. A very good copy. The first appearance in print of this eight-page Woolf story, which was subsequently collected in Monday or Tuesday (1921). This issue also includes poetry contributions from Edmund Blunden, Alice Meynell and Conrad Aiken, and Edmund Blunden’s essay The Manuscripts of John Clare. Kirkpatrick C203. £50

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Atalanta’s Garland. Being the Book of the Edinburgh University Women’s Union. Edinburgh University Press, 1926. First edition – issued to celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of the opening of the Edinburgh University Women’s Union. 8vo. 191pp. White cloth with black, red and yellow decorated paper sides and a paper title label. Captioned tissue-protected colour frontispiece. Backstrip lightly darkened, chafed and lightly marked, and with just a touch of spotting to edges, endpapers and occasional leaf margins. Tips of corners very lightly rubbed. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. 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, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh MacDiarmid, Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare, T.Sturge Moore, Edwin Muir, Charlotte Mew &c. 2,000 copies were printed (of which 750 were subsequently pulped). Kirkpatrick B6 (in the primary [1] binding). £95

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Kew Gardens. With decorations by Vanessa Bell. The Hogarth Press, London 1927. Third edition – limited to 500 numbered copies, this being #163. Crown 4to. [48pp]. Pictorial paper-covered boards featuring a three-colour design by Vanessa Bell, marked, soiled and a little stained. Spine ends chipped with a little light wear to gutters. Endpapers lightly browned and with a small sliver of loss from the head of the front endpaper (where at some point it became adhered to the adjacent pastedown). A somewhat handled copy, but lovely and crisp internally, printed on rectos only, each with a border decoration by Vanessa Bell. Lacking the original unprinted glassine protector, and with a fresh sheet of protective acetate supplied. Kirkpatrick A3c / Woolmer 155. £500

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Orlando. A Biography. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1928. First trade edition (preceded by a signed limited edition printed and published in the US). Demy 8vo. 299pp. With a frontispiece and seven captioned plates. An area of light staining to upper board, edges spotted and cloth just a little rubbed at tips of corners. Half-title spotted with a little further light spotting throughout, in the main confined to the margins. The names of two former owners inked to the front free endpaper, one of them offset slightly to the adjacent pastedown. A very good copy of Woolf’s celebrated fictional portrait, inspired by and with a printed dedication to Vita Sackville-West. No dust wrapper. 5,080 copies were printed. Kirkpatrick A11b / Woolmer 185. £175

VIRGINIA WOOLF. A Letter to a Young Poet. The Hogarth Press, ‘Hogarth Letters’ series, London 1932. The first separate edition, issued as number eight of the Hogarth Letters series. Small crown 8vo. 28pp sewn into slightly rubbed and soiled card wrappers featuring a series design by John Banting. A nice crisp copy. Woolf’s essay first appeared in a June 1932 issue of the Yale Review and was later collected in The Death of the Moth (1942). Kirkpatrick A17 / Woolmer 314. £40

VIRGINIA WOOLF. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York [1933]. First American edition (4th issue, published in May 1933 and limited to 1,000 copies). Demy 8vo. 332pp. Cloth a little marked in places, tanned at spine with spine lettering quite faded. Front hinge tender and an unsightly tear to the cloth at head of spine. Internally a very crisp and clean copy. No dust wrapper. Kirkpatrick A8b. £10

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Roger Fry. A Biography. The Hogarth Press, London 1940. First edition. Demy 8vo. 307pp. With a self-portrait frontispiece, seventeen photographs and reproductions and a brief foreword in the form of a letter from Margery Fry to Virginia Woolf. A sliver of discolouration to cloth edges where the dust wrapper is defective, and some fading to the backstrip and rear board. Half-title browned. A very good copy in dust wrapper reproducing Vanessa Bell’s portrait of Fry. The wrapper is lightly dust marked at the rear panel with a handful of very minor miscellaneous blemishes to the spine panel and four or five small portions of loss to top edge and the tips of several corners; yet this remains an exceedingly crisp and well preserved example of the dust wrapper. 2,530 copies were printed. Kirkpatrick A25. £500

VIRGINIA WOOLF. The Captain's Death Bed and other essays. With a brief editorial note by Leonard Woolf and a handsome Vanessa Bell dust wrapper. The Hogarth Press, London 1950. The first UK edition (preceded, albeit only by a week, by the US edition). Large crown 8vo. viii + 224pp. A strip of light partial browning to endpapers and a sliver of discolouration to spine ends where the dust wrapper is defective. A very good copy in Vanessa Bell dust wrapper, tanned at spine panel, lightly marked and dust soiled in places and chipped with several fractions of loss to spine ends and corner tips. Twenty-five essays, posthumously published with a print run of 10,000 copies. Kirkpatrick A30b. £50 

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Hours in a Library. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York 1957. First separate edition - privately printed for friends of the publisher as a New Year's greeting. Slim 8vo. 24pp. Portrait frontispiece. Spine ends just a little rubbed and with some unsightly markings to rear board. lacking the unprinted wax-paper wrapper. A brief forward by Leonard Woolf precedes Woolf’s twelve-page essay, originally printed in the TLS in November 1916. 1,800 copies were printed. Kirkpatrick A33. £35

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Contemporary Writers. Edited by Jean Guiguet. Hogarth Press, London 1965. First edition. A small area of chafing to head of upper board else in fine state with price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly dust marked. A selection of forty-six of Woolf’s reviews, mostly for the Times Literary Supplement, none of them hitherto reprinted. £20

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Mrs Dalloway’s Party. A short story sequence. Edited and with an introduction by Stella McNichol. The Hogarth Press, London 1973. First edition. Slim 8vo. 69pp. Top edge very lightly spotted, else a fine copy in very lightly marked, rubbed and faded dust wrapper. Seven short stories, written between 1922 and 1927, with two (The Introduction and Ancestors) hitherto unprinted. Kirkpatrick A42. £25

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Vanessa Bell. Notes on Virginia’s Childhood. A memoir by Vanessa Bell, edited by Richard J.Schaubeck, Jr. Frank Hallman, New York 1974. First edition, limited to 300 numbered copies (of which this is #15). Slim 8vo. Unpaginated. Paper-covered boards. In fine state. No dust wrapper called for. An eleven page essay, written by Vanessa Bell for the Memoir Club shortly after the death of Virginia Woolf, and printed here for the first time. £65

VIRGINIA WOOLF. A Cockney’s Farming Experiences [and The Experiences of a Pater-familias]. With an eleven-page introduction by Suzanne Henig. Cecil Woolf, London 1994. The first UK edition of Woolf’s first ‘novel’ plus its unfinished sequel (both of which were written for the playful and irreverent newspaper parody Hyde Park Gate News, created by Virginia Woolf and her siblings). 32pp stapled into decorated card wrappers. A little light miscellaneous staining to occasional leaf margins (impacting the text in only two instances). A very good copy with the original uncommon wrap-around band. These two ‘novels’ were first published in 1972 in an edition of 2,000 copies by San Diego State University Press as a gift for subscribers of the Virginia Woolf Quarterly; there was no UK edition until this 1994 issue, of which 500 copies were printed. Kirkpatrick A41b. £30

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Gillian Beer. Wave, Atom, Dinosaur: Woolf’s Science. The Virginia Woolf Society, London 2000. First edition – limited to 400 copies, this one signed by the author. 8vo. 15pp stapled into card wrappers with a paper title label to the upper wrapper. In fine state. An essay originally read as the first Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lecture on 25 January 2000. £20

VIRGINIA WOOLF, Bernard Blackstone. Virginia Woolf. A Commentary. Harcourt Brace, New York 1949. The American issue of the first edition (from UK sheets). Covers a little faded and handled and spine lettering partially defective. Quite a good, bright copy. No jacket. Former owner name neatly inked to tip of front endpaper. £10

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Louise deSalvo. Virginia Woolf .The Impact of Childhood Sexual Abuse on her Life and Work. Beacon Press, Boston 1989. First edition. 372pp. Quarter bound paper-covered cloth. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £15

VIRGINIA WOOLF, Howard Harper. Between Language and Silence. The Novels of Virginia Woolf. Louisiana State University Press 1982. First edition. 8vo. 326pp. Tips of two corners lightly bumped. A very good copy in slightly scuffed dust wrapper. £10

VIRGINIA WOOLF. B.J.Kirkpatrick. A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1980. The third, revised and expanded edition. 268pp. A fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, just fractionally rubbed at head and tail of spine. £32

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Mitchell A.Leaska. Virginia Woolf's Lighthouse. A Study in Critical Method. Columbia University Press, New York 1970. The first American edition. Spine a little creased. A near fine copy in slightly rubbed, price-clipped dust wrapper. £12

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Deborah Newton. Virginia Woolf. Melbourne University Press, Victoria 1946. First edition. Slim 8vo. 79pp. Top edge lightly spotted, else a fine copy in very good dust wrapper, a little chafed at spine ends and with a single short closed tear. The first Australian-published monograph on Woolf. £20

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Roger Poole. The Unknown Virginia Woolf. Cambridge University Press 1978. First edition. Covers knocked at two corners. A bright copy in slightly torn dust wrapper. £18

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Michael Rosenthal. Virginia Woolf. A Critical Study. Columbia University Press, New York 1979.  First edition. A near fine copy in dust wrapper. £8

BLOOSMBURY. David Gadd. The Loving Friends. A Portrait of Bloomsbury. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York 1974. Probably a reprint. Some edges of covers a little faded. A bright copy in slightly torn dust wrapper. £10

BLOOMSBURY. Elizabeth French Boyd. Bloomsbury Heritage. Their Mothers and Their Aunts. With illustrations. Hamish Hamilton, London 1976. First edition. A fine copy in sunned, price-clipped dust wrapper. Laminate lifting slightly in a few places. £5

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. 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

BLOOMSBURY. Duncan Grant And Vanessa Bell. Design and Decoration 1910-1960. The catalogue of a 1991 exhibition at Spink. With an introduction by Richard Shone. Square 8vo. 47pp. Stiff pictorial card wrappers. With ten colour reproductions and photographs, two more reproduced on the wrappers, and a further forty monochrome illustrations, these last mostly thumbnails. Short biro mark to front wrapper else in virtually fine state. £12

BLOOMSBURY. Quentin Bell and Virginia Nicholson. Charleston. A Bloomsbury House and Garden. With photographs by Alen MacWeeney. Henry Holt, New York 1997. First American edition. Landscape 4to. 152pp. Pictorial endpapers. Several indentations to head of upper board, else in virtually fine state with dust wrapper. A lavishly illustrated account Charleston Farmhouse, the home of Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and David Garnett, and one of the finest remaining examples of Bloomsbury decorative style. £35

HOGARTH PRESS. Herbert Read. Mutations of the Phoenix. The Hogarth Press, Richmond 1923. First edition, of which 200 copies were hand-printed. 4to. 51pp + iii publisher's advertisements. Blue cloth-backed marbled paper boards with remnants of a paper spine label. Corners, spine tips and board edges rubbed. Endpapers browned else an extremely crisp and bright copy internally. Eight poems. Most uncommon. Woolmer 38. (Woolmer notes a red cloth spine but the general consensus would suggest that this blue cloth example is the correct original binding). One of the scarcest of the thirty-four hand-printed Hogarth Press titles – and also one of their most handsome productions. £400 

HOGARTH PRESS. Robert Graves. Mock Beggar Hall. With a magnificent cover design by William Nicholson. Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, London 1924. First edition. 4to. 79pp + iv publisher's catalogue at rear. Paper covered boards featuring Nicholson's superb bat illustration. Lightly bumped at the tip of a single corner and a little chafing to others. Tear to the plain paper covering at spine resulting in two tiny areas of loss. Internally in really super state. Former owner plate to rear pastedown. No dust wrapper, as issued. Fourteen poems including a fragment of Greek satire, translated by Graves and published here in English for the first time, an eclogue and a play by Basanta Mallik, edited, "re-Enligshed" and with a prologue by Graves. A very good copy of a scarce and quite fragile production. Graves was married to William Nicholson's daughter Nancy and the artist illustrated a number of his son-in-laws early works, although this one is surely the best. Higginson A10 / Woolmer 34. £300

HOGARTH PRESS. T.S.Eliot. Homage to John Dryden. Three Essays on Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. The Hogarth Press, ‘Hogarth Essays’ series, London 1924. First edition (of which circa 2,000 copies were printed). Slim 8vo. 46pp. Card wrappers featuring a pictorial series design by Vanessa Bell. With the merest hint of tanning and dust soiling to covers, and some quite light fox spotting throughout, in the main confined to the margins. Very good. Essays on Dryden, Marvell and The Metaphysical Poets, preceded by a one-page preface by the author. The fourth volume of the Hogarth Essays series, and one of the scarcest. Gallup A7 / Woolmer 43. £75 

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

HOGARTH PRESS. Frances Cornford. Different Days. Poems. The Hogarth Press, ‘Hogarth Living Poets’ series, London 1928. First edition - issued as the first volume of Hogarth’s Living Poets series. Small 8vo. 47pp. Paper-covered boards featuring a series design by Vanessa Bell. Boards lightly marked, tanned and rubbed with a small area of staining to the upper board. Binding cracked in places with one gathering tender. A bright, crisp copy. Thirty-one poems. Uncommon. 500 copies were printed. Woolmer 159. £35

HOGARTH PRESS. C.Day Lewis. Transitional Poem. The Hogarth Press, ‘Hogarth Living Poets’ series, London 1929. First edition - issued as the ninth volume of Hogarth’s Living Poets series. Small 8vo. 71pp. Paper-covered boards featuring a series design by Vanessa Bell. Boards lightly marked and rubbed, and with just a touch of edge spotting. Rear endpaper lightly browned. Very good. A lengthy thirty-four part poem. Woolmer 191. £50

HOGARTH PRESS. E.E.Kellett. The Whirligig of Taste. The Hogarth Press, 'Hogarth Lectures' No. 8, London 1929. First edition. 8vo. 160pp. Orange cloth with red lettering and series monogram to front board. Endpapers lightly browned and several corners bumped. Top edge a little dust marked and very lightly foxed. A good, sound copy in tanned dust wrapper with a little loss to head of spine panel. 2,250 copies were printed. Woolmer 197. £20

EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON. Cavender's House. The Hogarth Press, ‘Hogarth Living Poets’ series, London 1930.  First edition – issued as number fourteen of the Hogarth Living Poets series. 8vo. 67pp. Paper-covered boards. A bright copy but with significant damp stains to spine and rear board and front and rear endpapers and pastdowns. No dust wrapper. 400 copies were printed. Woolmer 234. £10

WILLIAM PLOMER. The Case is Altered. A novel. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1932. First edition. 8vo. 341pp + [ii] of critical responses. Green cloth with slightly dulled gilt spine lettering. Top edge dust marked and board extremities very lightly discoloured. Binding just fractionally cocked and with a hint of spotting to edges, several preliminary leaves and to very occasional leaf margins. A very crisp copy in the John Banting dust wrapper, a little creased and edge worn with three or four small areas of loss to spine ends and corner tips. Former owner name neatly inked to the front free endpaper. 1,520 copies were printed. Woolmer 302. £50

HOGARTH PRESS. V.Sackville-West. Collected Poems. The Hogarth Press, London 1933. First edition. 8vo. 325pp. A strip of browning to endpapers; and fore edge, endpapers and pastedowns spotted, but thereafter a very crisp and bright copy in tanned, chafed and soiled dust wrapper with an inch of loss from the head of the spine panel and several further fractions of edge loss. A brief note by the author precedes one hundred poems, twenty-eight of them appearing in print here for the first time. The title page and dust wrapper note this as ‘Volume One’ but no further volumes were forthcoming. 3,045 copies were printed. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A29. £95

HOGARTH PRESS. Maxim Gorky. Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekov and Andreev. An authorised translation from the Russian by Katherine Mansfield, S.S.Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1934. First one-volume edition of three books, two of which were previously issued by the Hogarth Press in 1920 and 1921 with the third being published by Heinemann in 1931. 8vo. 191pp. With a photographic frontispiece and three plates. Binding a little cocked and board extremities just a fraction tanned. Top edge dust marked and with an infinitesimal nick to cloth at head of spine. Some partial browning to endpapers, half-title and title-page, but all text leaves exceptionally bright and fresh. A very good copy in dust wrapper housing a tipped-in reproduction of the frontispiece reproduced in blue. Spine really quite tanned and lettering mostly obscured with a little loss to head of spine panel and tips of corners. Some miscellaneous red staining to rear panel. 1,250 copies were printed. Woolmer 339. £75

HOGARTH PRESS. J.H.Willis, Jr. Leonard and Virginia Woolf as Publishers. The Hogarth Press, 1917-1941. With illustrations. University Press of Virginia 1992. First edition. 451pp. Original publisher's cloth lettered in black at spine. A fine copy in fine dust wrapper. £35