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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 Other contributors include W.H.Davies (his poems Where Shall We Live and Contented Hearts), Katherine Mansfield (Two Unpublished Sketches), Hugh MacDiarmid (his Penny Wheep poem Hungry Waters, here set to music by Francis George Scott), Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare (his poem The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. The Common Reader [and] The Second Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York 1932 and [1933]. Individual volumes as follows: The Common Reader [1933]. The fourth issue of the first American edition, published in May 1933 and limited to 1,000 copies. Demy 8vo. 332pp. Cloth a little marked in places, tanned at the backstrip with the spine lettering somewhat faded. The front hinge cracked and as little tender, and with an unsightly tear to the cloth at head of the backstrip. Internally a very crisp and clean copy. No dust wrapper. A selection of twenty-six critical essays and reviews, the subjects including Daniel Defoe, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad. The Second Common Reader (1932). The first American edition. Demy 8vo. viii + 296pp. A slightly dusty copy, the binding cracked and tender at the front hinge. Cloth a little rubbed at the head of the backstrip and marked and soiled in places, yet a nice crisp copy internally. No dust wrapper. 2,000 copies were printed. A further selection of twenty-six critical essays and reviews, the subjects including John Donne, Robinson Crusoe, Beau Brummell, Dorothy Wordsworth, William Hazlitt, George Gissing, and The Novels of Thomas Hardy. Kirkpatrick A8b [and] A18b. £20

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

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. Michael Holroyd. Unreceived Opinions. Heinemann, London 1973. First edition - this copy signed by the author on the title page. 8vo. 266pp. A fine copy in very slightly marked and edgeworn dust wrapper. Thirty essays, the subjects including ‘Bloomsberries’ Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey, and Roger Fry; plus further essays on Patrick Hamilton, William Gerhardie, A.E.Housman, J.M.Barrie, Bertrand Russell, Wilson Steer, and the friendship between Wyndham Lewis and Augustus John. £25

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. 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. 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. The Art of Dying. An Anthology. Edited by Francis Burrell and F.L.Lucas. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Tavistock Square, London 1930. First edition. 8vo. 96pp. The backstrip ends gently bruised, and the cloth very lightly marked and scored in three or four places. Just a hint of toning to the free endpapers. Brief ownership inscription neatly inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy of this selection of the last words of over two-hundred and seventy notables. Uncommon. Woolmer 218 (who has not seen the dust wrapper either). £65

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