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SVEVO, Italo.
The Hoax. Translated from the Italian, with an Introduction by Beryl de Zoete.
Publisher: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1929
Stock code: 46339
Price: £1,250 Currency Conversion
First edition, the translator's own copy, with her inscription on the half-title, "Beryl de Zoete given by Leonard Woolf his last remaining copy". Loosely inserted are an autograph post card from Leonard Woolf to Roger Fry, stamped and franked 2 March 1928, quoting Frank Howes's biography of William Byrd on the sound qualities of the harpsichord; this sent on the next day by Fry to Beryl de Zoete, with an accompanying autograph note signed ("Yrs. Roger"), asking her to "deal with this strange heresy. Leonard maintained the other night, at Wanda [Landowska]'s concert, in spite of the evidence of his ears, that all notes struck on the harpsichord were of equal loudness [...] and now gets Mr. Frank Howes, who, I suppose, has never seen a harpsichord to back him up. You must explain it please." The Hoax was published October 1929, 1,000 copies printed.
Small octavo. Original red marbled cloth, white paper spine label lettered in red; in the yellow dust jacket lettered in red. A fine copy in the chipped jacket with dusty spine.
