Autographs & Signed Books (all items)
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YEATS, William Butler.
Dramatis Personæ. 1935
£450
First edition, with hand-drawn monogram of Lady Ottoline Morrell and accompanying letter.
Octavo. Original cream quarter cloth, over blue paper-covered boards, front side lettered in black, white paper spine label lettered in black, edges uncut, blue... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Reveries Over Childhood and Youth. 1916
£60,000
First English edition of Yeats's first autobiography; a canonical presentation copy, inscribed in the month of publication, "Ezra Pound from W. B. Yeats, October 1916." One of 1,000...
Octavo. Original blue cloth, decoration and titles to upper board and spine gilt designed by Sturge Moore, edges untrimmed. Custom blue morocco-backed slipcase and... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Stories of Red Hanrahan. 1904
£45,000
First edition, presentation copy, with the author's signed inscription to the first leaf recto, "Lady Gregory from her friend W. B. Yeats, April 18, 1905." On the following leaf,...
Octavo. Original linen-backed blue boards, white paper title label to upper board and spine printed in black, blue endpapers. Custom blue morocco-backed slipcase and... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
The Tower. 1928
£45,000
First edition, presentation copy, with the author's signed inscription in ink on the front free endpaper, "Lady Ottoline Morrell from WB Yeats June 22 1928", and signed by the author...
Octavo. Original green cloth, upper board and spine elaborately blocked after a design by Sturge Moore and titles gilt, all edges untrimmed. Custom green... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Wheels and Butterflies. 1934
£1,750
First edition, first impression, signed by Yeats on the title page; Lady Ottoline Morrell's copy, given to her by her daughter, with the contemporary gift inscription on the front...
Octavo. Original blue-green cloth, spine lettered in gilt, design blocked in gilt on front cover, top edge trimmed, others uncut. Includes printed music. Spine a... Read more
YEATS, W. B.
Wild Swans at Coole, Other Verses and a Play in Verse. 1917
£60,000
First edition, presentation copy, inscribed on the first blank. As was his habit with many of the major presentations to Gregory (e.g. "Michael Robartes and the Dancer" and "October...
Octavo. Original purple paper-covered boards; tan cloth spine, printed title label, purple endpapers, edges uncut; original glassine wrapper. Custom blue... Read more
WREN, Percival Christopher.
Mysterious Waye. 1930
£750
First Edition, First Impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription on his armorial bookplate pasted in at the front, “To A. J. Richardson Esq. with the...
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to upper board and spine gilt. With the pictorial dust jacket supplied from another copy. Edges of boards and spine faded, lettering... Read more
WREN, Percival Christopher.
Paper Prison. 1939
£325
First Edition, First Impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription on his presentation bookplate tipped onto the front pastedown. Scarce.
Octavo. Original red cloth, titles to upper board and spine in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. Typical spotting to fore edge and prelims, early newspaper... Read more
(WOOLF, Virginia.) SANDS, Ethel.
Autograph letter signed ("Your devoted Ethel") to Vanessa Bell, commiserating with her on the death of her sister Virginia Woolf. [1941]
£1,750
A letter of condolence to Vanessa Bell ("My dearest Vanessa") written shortly after Virginia's suicide: "...I can hardly believe this terrible news, that Virginia has chosen to leave...
Single sheet pale grey notepaper, letterhead printed in red "Garsington Manor, near Oxford." Central crease where folded once. Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
A Room of One’s Own 1929
£6,500
Signed Limited Edition. Limited to 492 copies of which 450 were for sale. Our copy is number 450.
Octavo. Bound in the publishers’ original cinnamon cloth. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box made by The Chelsea Bindery. Spine slightly faded, a... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
A Room of One’s Own. 1929
£3,500
First English edition, first impression, preceded by the signed limited edition issued three days earlier in the USA and simultaneously in the United Kingdom. One of the...
Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the Vanessa Bell designed pictorial dust jacket. Light partial browning to the endpapers but an exceptionally... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
A Room of One’s Own. 1929
£7,500
First edition, limited issue, one of 492 numbered copies signed by the author. Of the 492 copies, 42 were not for sale; the first 100 were issued in England and the remainder by the...
Octavo. Original burgundy cloth, titles to spine gilt. Slightest of fading to spine, slight bump to top of boards, but a strikingly fresh copy and very scarce in this... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
Flush. A Biography. 1933
£15,000
First edition, first impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, “Ottoline Morrell Virginia Woolf”. With the occasional...
Octavo. Original tan cloth, titles to spine gilt. With a first impression dust jacket supplied from another copy. Housed in a quarter black morocco solander box made... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
Jacob’s Room. 1922
£32,500
First edition, first impression. One of probably 40 “A” subscribers’ copies with the part-printed limitation label to the front free endpaper completed in ink by...
Octavo. Original yellow cloth, white paper title label to spine printed in black. Some foxing early and late, endpapers lightly browned, contents a little shaken,... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
Night And Day. 1919
£850
First edition, first impression. The copy of Roger Senhouse, editor at Secker & Warburg and lover of Lytton Strachey, with his ownership signature in pencil to the front free endpaper.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine and upper board in white. Lightly rubbed and slightly shaken, rear hinge cracked and repaired. A very good copy. Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
On Being Ill. 1930
£6,500
First Edition, limited to 250 copies of which this is number 33 and is signed on the limitation page by Virginia Woolf.
Octavo, pp. 34. Publisher’s quarter vellum, blue green cloth boards, marbled endpapers, complete with dust-wrapper. Housed in a quarter morocco solander box made... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
Orlando, a biography. 1928
£1,200
First English edition, first impression, just preceded by the New York signed limited edition.
Octavo. Original orange cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the white dust jacket printed in black. With 8 illustrations Foxing to fore edge, fading to edges of boards,... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
Orlando. A Biography. 1928
£2,000
First US edition, first printing. One of a limited edition of 861 numbered copies signed by the author on the verso of the half title.
Octavo. Original black cloth, titles to spine gilt, top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece. Boards lightly rubbed, spine a little faded, lightly faded area to upper... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
Street Haunting. 1930
£2,250
First edition. One of 500 numbered copies signed by Virginia Woolf.
Octavo. Original quarter blue morocco, two raised bands, titles to spine gilt, patterned paper-covered boards. In the original card slipcase and housed in a dark blue... Read more
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WOOLF, Virginia.
The Common Reader [First &] Second Series. 1925 & 1932
£15,000
First editions, first impressions of both volumes, Nelly Cecil's copies, the First Series with her ownership inscription, the Second Series a presentation copy, with the author's...
2 volumes, octavo. First Series: original cloth backed decorated paper boards; with the cream dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell supplied from another copy. Second... Read more
WOOLF, Virginia.
The Voyage Out. 1915
£3,250
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...
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... Read more
WOODS, Rex.
Bricks and Hearts. 1933
£375
First edition, first impression. With the author’s signed presentation inscription to the title page “The Duchess of Marlborough from the author - hoping she will find some...
Octavo. Original rust coloured cloth, titles to spine gilt. With the dust jacket. Top edge a little dusty, an excellent copy in the lightly rubbed dust jacket. Read more
WOLFF, Camille (compiler)
Who was Jack the Ripper? 1995
£300
Limited edition, this number 84 of 100 copies, signed by Camille Wolff and Loretta Lay of Grey House Books, and 51 of the 55 contributors, some of the signatures on labels as usual....
Octavo, original black rexine, title gilt to upper and spine, in dust jacket. Illustrations to the text. Self-adhesive book ticket of Jonathan Goodman to the front... Read more
WOLFE, Tom.
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. 1965
£675
First edition, first printing. Signed by the author on the title page.
Octavo. Original white cloth, titles and decoration to spine and upper board in gold and yellow, orange endpapers, yellow top-stain. With the dust jacket. Contents... Read more
WOLFE, Tom.
The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby. 1965
£650
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper “Best wishes, fourteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-three of them, from Tom Wolfe”.
Octavo. Original white cloth, titles and decoration to spine and upper board in gold and yellow, orange endpapers, yellow top-stain. With the dust jacket. 18 black and... Read more
