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WOOLF, Virginia.
The Voyage Out.
First Edition. With the presentation inscription of E. M. Forster on the front free endpaper, "A.B. from E.M.F." The recipient has also signed and dated the page "Aida Borchgrevink / 1917". Borchgrevink - née Ada Starr - was a friend and correspondent of Forster from around 1912 to 1928. He was also of course a champion both of Woolf generally and of this novel in particular. He read the book in manuscript giving Woolf some key prepublication criticism. The important review he submitted to the Daily News and Leader hailed Woolf as a major new novelist. Association copies of The Voyage Out are famously rare. Where is Leonard's copy? Why was Strachey's copy uninscribed? Similarly Forster was not much given to presentation inscription at this time: copies of his own pre-war books are rare in signed state. A most unusual and quite compelling copy.
Octavo. Original green cloth blocked in black on upper board, spine lettering gilt. Some spotting to fore edge and to several pages early and late, staining to a few pages, spine a little cocked joints somewhat rubbed and with a short split to the lower, rest of cloth clean and bright.
