Woolf, Virginia (1882-1940)
Orlando
£4,032
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Description
A Biography. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition, one of 861 copies printed on rag paper and signed by the author in purple ink on verso of the half-title, 8vo, original black cloth, spine decorated in gilt, publisher's device gilt to front board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed, frontispiece, 7 plates (including 3 showing Vita Sackville-West as Orlando), spine and head of rear board very slightly faded, a few spots to half-title and limitation leaf [Kirkpatrick A11a]
Footnote
Note: The true first edition, preceding the Hogarth Press edition by nine days.
Provenance: Ivan Chambers OBE (1902-1998), British bookseller (with his bookplate); thence by descent.