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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. Red cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. 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. Blue cloth boards with faded gilt lettering to the spine. 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. Reviewing. With a five-page note by Leonard Wolfe. The Hogarth Press, ‘Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets’ series, London 1939. First edition. Small crown 8vo. 31pp sewn into lettered card wrappers. The wrappers a little tanned with a tiny crease to the tip of one corner, and with some further tanning to the lesser quality paperstock. Former owner name neatly inked to the head of the first leaf. A nice bright copy of the fourth instalment of the Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets series. Publisher’s promotional leaflet advertising the first five volumes in the series laid-in. Woolf’s essay was subsequently reprinted in The Captain’s Death Bed and Other Essays (1950). Kirkpatrick A24. £35

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. 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. 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 wrap-around band, somewhat creased and split into two parts. 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, 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. 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. 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. Roger Fry. Cézanne. A Study of His Development. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1927. First edition. 4to. 88pp + xl plates (fifty-four reproductions in total). Cloth-backed boards featuring a design by Fry, lettered in black at the spine. Spine ends and corner tips rubbed, and the board edges a little chafed. Some tanning to the board margins, browning to the free endpapers, and a little spotting to the first two or three leaves. Binding just a little tender at one gathering. A short tear to the base of one plate leaf, not impacting the image, with a little accompanying creasing. A good, bright copy of Fry’s celebrated early study of the life and work of the noted Post-Impressionist (a term coined by Fry in 1906). No dust wrapper, probably as issued. Woolmer 120. £50

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. Clive Bell. Proust. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London 1928. First edition, reputedly limited to 1,200 copies. Small 8vo. 89pp. Handsome black and red mottled cloth with a tanned and slightly faded paper spine label and the publisher’s vibrant red top edge stain. A touch of light spotting to the edges, and a little further light spotting to several preliminary and concluding leaves. A very good copy of this critical study of Proust’s novels, lacking the uncommon dust wrapper. Woolmer 156. £65

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. 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