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VIRGINIA WOOLF. Monday or Tuesday. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York 1921. The first American edition, issued seven months after the Hogarth Press edition. Crown 8vo. 116pp. Patterned paper-covered boards with a cloth spine and paper spine label. Top edge dust soiled. Spine ends and corner tips a little rubbed, and with a touch of spotting to endpapers and several preliminary and concluding leaves. A nice bright copy, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. The author’s fifth book, comprising eight stories – the only such collection published in her lifetime. 1,500 copies of this American edition were printed. Kirkpatrick A5b. £150

VIRGINIA WOOLF. Jacob’s Room. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1922. First edition. Crown 8vo. 290pp + xiv publisher’s advertisements at rear. Yellow cloth with a tanned and slightly chipped paper spine label. Fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Boards a little marked in places, with a minor slant to the binding, and some quite light wear to the spine ends and corner tips. Rear free endpaper browned and spotted, with some further really quite light spotting to some preliminary leaves, and then sporadically throughout. A good, respectable copy, of which circa 1,200 examples were printed. Lacking the über-uncommon Vanessa Bell dust wrapper. Kirkpatrick A6a / Woolmer 26. £500

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. Beau Brummell. With drawings by W.A.Dwiggins. Rimington & Harper, New York 1930. First edition. Printed by William Edwin Rudge and limited to 550 copies numbered copies, signed by the author (in purple ink to the verso of the half-title), 500 of which were for sale, with 250 for the UK and US markets respectively (this being #223). Royal 4to. [x] + 18pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards, lettered in gold at spine and with a decorative label to the upper board. Top edge gilt. With two full-page drawings by Dwiggins, printed in blue and pink, each with a decorative border. The backstrip cloth very lightly darkened, with just a hint of edgewear. Boards a little marked, spotted and stained, and with several areas of quite light uneven discolouration. A little further spotting to the pastedowns and endpapers, with a fraction more impacting the margins of most leaves. Some quite light creasing to the rear free endpaper.  A very good copy of the first separate edition of Woolf’s Brummell essay, which was first printed in a September 1929 issue of the periodical Nation and Athenaeum, and was later collected in The Common Reader: Second Series (1932). No dust wrapper called for, but lacking the slipcase. Kirkpatrick A15a. £850

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. The Years. Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, London 1937. First edition. 8vo. 469pp. Backstrip extremities slightly chafed, with a touch of further very light marking and chafing to two or three other board extremities. A dash of spotting to the free endpapers. A very good copy, particularly crisp and bright internally, housed in the Vanessa Bell-illustrated dust wrapper, tanned at the spine panel, with some spotting, several tiny slivers of loss from the head of the spine panel, two instances of internal reinforcement and a single crease to the rear flap. Several millimetres have been carefully trimmed from the upper edge of the wrapper, just impacting the decorative border and the lettering of ‘The’. Kirkpatrick A22a / Woolmer 423. £350

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. Brev Til en Ung Digter. [A Letter to a Young Poet]. Jarl Borgen, Borgens Forlag, København 1949. The first Danish edition of A Letter to a Young Poet, translated from the English by Martin Melsted. Slim 8vo. 28pp. Paper-covered boards featuring a design by Preben L.Bytzer, lettered in black at spine. Boards very gently bowed and lightly dust soiled, with some offsetting from the binders glue to the rear board. Spine ends a little chipped and the binding torn at the rear gutter with a little resulting tenderness to the backstrip. A nice crisp copy, in virtually fine state internally. The third of Woolf’s books to be translated into Danish. 300 copies were printed. Kirkpatrick D11. £35

VIRGINIA WOOLF. A Writer’s Diary. Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Leonard Woolf. The Hogarth Press, London 1953. First edition. Demy 8vo. 372pp. Some staining to the board extremities, the binding just a little sprung at the spine ends, and with some staining and dust soiling to the top edge. A good copy, really quite crisp internally, housed in the Vanessa Bell dust wrapper, somewhat rubbed and dust soiled, with some tanning to the spine panel, and some chipping to the edges resulting four or five areas of loss. Several characters inked to the base of the spine panel, and former owner details inked to the head of the front free endpaper. Extracts from the late author’s extensive diaries, the pieces here specifically referring to her own writings, and her creative and critical powers and methods. Kirkpatrick A31. £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 foreword 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. 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. The London Scene. Essays. With illustrations by Suzanne Barton. Snowbooks Ltd., London [2004]. The first complete collected edition of Woolf’s six London life essays, which were first published in Good Housekeeping between 1931-32. This edition includes the ‘lost’ sixth essay, The Portrait of a Londoner, which was omitted from the two previous US and UK editions of these collected works. Landscape 8vo. 95pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. A very good copy in dust wrapper, with a short enclosed tear to the front flap-front panel join. £15

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. Winifred Holtby. Virginia Woolf. A monograph. Wishart & Co., London 1932. First edition of the author’s noted critical study. 8vo. 206pp. Quarter cloth with paper sides. Portrait frontispiece of the subject. The tip of one corner lightly bumped. The top edge spotted and with just a touch of further spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. Binding just a little tender at the half-title and with a small area of rust marking to the base of the rear hinge. Some occasional very light pencilled margin ticks. A very good copy, particularly crisp internally, in very good dust wrapper, very lightly discoloured at the spine panel and with several miniscule slivers of edge-loss. Contemporary (1934) former owner name and date neatly inked to the front free endpaper, and a slightly later owner’s initials and date also in evidence there. A particularly well preserved example of quite an uncommon item.  £125

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

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. 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. 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

BLOOSMBURY. David Gadd. The Loving Friends. A Portrait of Bloomsbury. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York 1974. First edition. 8vo. 210pp. Some edges of covers a little faded. A bright copy in very slightly dust soiled price-clipped 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

HOGARTH PRESS. Christopher Isherwood. Lions and Shadows. An Education in the Twenties. The Hogarth Press, London 1938. First edition. 8vo. 312pp. Portrait frontispiece of the author in 1921. Top edge dust soiled and with a slight ridge to the backstrip. Endpapers partially browned and with a tiny dealer plate to the base of the front pastedown. A small area of staining to the base of one text leaf. A good copy, really quite crisp internally, housed in the fairly uncommon Robert Medley-designed dust wrapper which is a little tanned, marked, rubbed and chipped, torn but holding at the natural folds. This copy from the library of poet Jenny Joseph, with her signature and date to the front free endpaper. A slightly novelised autobiographical account of the author’s schooling, of which 3,590 copies were printed. Woolmer 431. £75

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. Paper covered boards featuring Nicholson’s superb bat illustration. Corner tips and board edges lightly rubbed, and a slit to the upper gutter carefully repaired. Tiny dealer plate to the base of the inner rear board. A very good copy. No dust wrapper called for. Fourteen poems including a fragment of Greek satire, translated by Graves and published here in English for the first time, and an eclogue and a play by Basanta Mallik, edited, “re-Englished” and with a prologue by Graves. A very good copy of a scarce and quite fragile production. Higginson A10 / Woolmer 46.  £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. E.M.Forster. Anonymity. An enquiry. The Hogarth Press, ‘Hogarth Essays’ series, London 1925. First edition, the twelfth volume in the Hogarth Essays series. Slim 8vo. 23pp. Stiff card wrappers featuring a series design by Vanessa Bell. The wrappers a little dust soiled with a touch of uneven tanning, with some chipping to the upper gutter and a tiny area of loss to the paper-covering of one corner tip. A good bright copy. Woolmer 61. £40

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. 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

HOGARTH PRESS. 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