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First edition of Frances Cornford's Different Days; the first book in Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Living Poets Series
CORNFORD, FRANCES. EDITED BY DOROTHY WELLESLEY.
Different Days.
London: Hogarth Press 1928.
First edition of Frances Cornford’s Different Days, the first book in the Hogarth Living Poets series. Octavo, original pictorial boards. Front panel design by Vanessa Bell. In very good condition.
Price: $100.00 Item Number: 114382
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First Edition of Virginia Woolf's The Death of the Moth
WOOLF, VIRGINIA.
The Death of the Moth and Other Essays.
London: The Hogarth Press 1942.
First English edition of this collection of Woolf’s essays selected and published by her husband posthumously. Octavo, original cloth. Very good with remnants of the rare original dust jacket. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell.
Price: $250.00 Item Number: 127033
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First edition of Virginia Woolf's The Moment and other Essays
WOOLF, VIRGINIA.
The Moment and Other Essays.
Harcourt, Brace and Company: New York 1948.
First edition of this collection of essays, sketches, and literary criticisms. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket, name to the front free endpaper.
Price: $300.00 Item Number: 139436
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First edition of Virginia Woolf's The Moment and other Essays
WOOLF, VIRGINIA.
The Moment and Other Essays.
The Hogarth Press: London 1947.
First edition of this collection of essays, sketches, and literary criticisms. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell.
Price: $600.00 Item Number: 131243
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“It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment?": First edition of Vita Sackville-West's Collected Poems; signed by her and from the library of Erica Jong
SACKVILLE-WEST, VITA.
Collected Poems.
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1933.
First edition of Sackville-West’s collected poems including “The Land” and “Sissinghurst” (which was dedicated to Virginia Woolf), as well as 28 new poems published here for the first time. Octavo, complete in one volume (Volume I was the only volume published). Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. From the library of Erica Jong. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movement’s redefinition of female sexuality. In interviews, Jong stated: “At the time I wrote Fear of Flying, there was not a book that said women are romantic, women are intellectual, women are sexual—and brought all those things together… What [Isadora is] looking for is how to be a whole human being, a body and a mind, and that is what women were newly aware they needed in 1973.” The novel remains a feminist classic and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. In very good condition.
Price: $750.00 Item Number: 142371
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"THAT THE YOUNG MAN HAPPENS TO BE MYSELF IS ONLY OF SECONDARY IMPORTANCE": FIRST EDITION OF CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD'S LIONS AND SHADOWS
ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER.
Lions and Shadows: An Education in the Twenties.
London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1938.
First edition of Isherwood’s semi-autobiographical novel about bohemian London in the 1920s. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom full morocco clamshell box.
Price: $850.00 Item Number: 104893
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First edition of Virginia Woolf's Common Reader
WOOLF, VIRGINIA.
The Common Reader.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company 1925.
First edition of this classic collection of Woolf’s critical essays. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell.
Price: $975.00 Item Number: 139279
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First Edition of Christopher Isherwood's The Memorial; Signed by Him
ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER.
The Memorial: Portrait of a Family.
London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 1932.
First edition of the author’s classic second novel. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by Christopher Isherwood on the title page. Very good in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by John Banting. Housed in a custom half morocco chemise and clamshell box. Uncommon signed.
Price: $1,600.00 Item Number: 142447
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“Would there be trees if we didn't see them?”: FIRST EDITION OF VIRGINIA WOOLF'S THE YEARS; FINELY BOUND BY THE HARCOURT BINDERY
WOOLF, VIRGINIA.
The Years.
London: Hogarth Press 1937.
First edition of the most successful of Woolf’s later novels, often viewed as her masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.
Price: $1,650.00 Item Number: 140038
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"DASHED HOPES AND GOOD INTENTIONS. GOOD, BETTER, BEST, BESTED": FIRST EDITION OF WHOS AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF; SIGNED BY EDWARD ALBEE
ALBEE, EDWARD.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
New York: Atheneum 1962.
First edition of Albee’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth. Boldly signed by the author on the title page, “Edward Albee 2010.” Fine in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. An exceptional example.
Price: $2,000.00 Item Number: 126769