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The books from Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press are the complete package: brilliant avant-garde texts, stunning Post-Impressionist and abstract jacket designs, and a great backstory about a couple who didn't quite realize how difficult it would be to print their own books. Most of those featured here include art by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. But there are a couple surprises tucked in: a Hogarth production by Woolf's lover, and a Woolf signed limited edition issued in the US.
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Best,
Rebecca & Brian
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1.
MONDAY OR TUESDAY
BY Virginia Woolf, with woodcuts by Vanessa Bell
1921
First edition, advance review copy, of the only collection of Woolf’s short stories published in her lifetime, an early book published by her own Hogarth Press. Near fine.
$2800.
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JACOB'S ROOM
By Virginia Woolf
1922
First edition of this early novel grappling with the personal traumas of World War I, her first to experiment with modernist techniques that would become central to her style. Very good, lacking the scarce jacket.
$1200.
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THE COMMON READER
By Virginia Woolf
1925
First edition of Woolf’s first collection of literary criticism, including her response to reading the first chapters of James Joyce’s ULYSSES. Very good in very good jacket.
$6000.
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A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
By Virginia Woolf
1929
Beautiful copy of the first edition of one of the most influential literary essays of the twentieth century, a landmark of feminist thought. Near fine in near-fine jacket.
$7500.
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THE EDWARDIANS
By Vita Sackville-West
1930
Signed limited first edition of this incisive bildungsroman set among the English aristocracy of the early twentieth century -- published by her lover Virginia Woolf's struggling Hogarth Press. Fine.
$1200.
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BEAU BRUMMELL
By Virginia Woolf, designed and illustrated by W.A. Dwiggins
1930
Signed limited edition of Woolf's portrait of the Regency dandy, one of 550 numbered copies signed by her. An American fine press project: the only item here not published by Hogarth. Very good+.
$1500.
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THE WAVES
By Virginia Woolf
1931
First edition of the experimental novel Woolf described as a “play-poem,” the last lines of which Leonard Woolf later used for her epitaph. Very good in very good jacket.
$3200.
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THE COMMON READER: Second Series
By Virginia Woolf
1932
First edition of Woolf’s second collection of literary criticism, including "How Should One Read a Book?". Near fine in near-fine jacket.
$1200.
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THE YEARS
By Virginia Woolf
1937
Stunning first edition of the last of Virginia Woolf’s novels published in her lifetime, originally conceived as a sequel to A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. Fine in about-fine jacket.
$4000.
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THREE GUINEAS
By Virginia Woolf
1938
First edition of Woolf’s essays on women and the political sphere, once part of an experimental “sequel” to A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN and the nonfiction companion to THE YEARS. Fine in fine jacket.
$2500.
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