WOOLF, Virginia.
Rare books by Virginia Woolf, including first editions and signed first edition copies of To The Lighthouse and Jacob’s Room.
Rare books by Virginia Woolf, including first editions, signed and finely bound copies, and original letters and manuscripts.Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) was an author, literary critic and publisher. A central member of London’s Bloomsbury Group, she was also an important figure in the modernist movement alongside James Joyce and T. S. Eliot. Woolf’s literary ambition was to reach beyond the traditional plot structure of realism to illuminate the subtle moments of everyday life that define a character.
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Video: Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf. First Edition 1922
Virginia Woolf, Orlando, first edition presentation copy 1928
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STEPHEN, Mrs Leslie [Julia]. Notes From Sick Rooms.London : 1883
First edition of Julia Stephen's discussion of good nursing practice. The work demonstrates "a fine attention to detail - and to language: it includes an eloquent and witty passage on the torment of crumbs in bed" (ODNB). Stephen (1846-1895) was Virginia Woolf's mother, and an active philanthropist who "travelled round London by bus visiting hospitals... Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 129359
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WOOLF, Virginia (contrib.); MAITLAND, Frederic William. The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen.London : 1906 [1910]
First edition. The book contains Virginia Woolf's first appearance in a book at pp. 474-6, chapter XI, "The Sunset". Learn More£425.00Stock Code: 84698
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Voyage Out.London : 1915
First edition, first impression, of the author's first book. The Voyage Out introduces the character of Clarissa Dalloway, most famous as the central character of Mrs Dalloway (1925). Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 126009
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Voyage Out.London : 1915
First edition, first impression, of the author's first book, advance copy, with the publisher's ink stamp to the title "To be published on 26 Mar. 1915". Woolf's first published novel "was a literary debut that marked Virginia as a writer worth watching" (Licence). Learn More£1,950.00Stock Code: 122789
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Voyage Out.London : 1915
First edition, first impression, of the author's first book. The Voyage Out introduces the character of Clarissa Dalloway, most famous as the central character of Mrs Dalloway (1925). Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 73631
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Voyage Out.London : 1915
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,850.00Stock Code: 43261
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WOOLF, Virginia. Night and Day.London : 1919
First edition, first impression, one of just 2,000 copies printed, of Woolf's second novel. Learn More£1,400.00Stock Code: 41311
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WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday.Richmond : 1921
First edition, first impression, of the only collection of Woolf's short stories to be published in her lifetime, further developing her modernist style which would blossom in the coming years, and continuing her collaboration with her sister Vanessa Bell who provided the cover design and illustrations. Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 138873
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WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday.Richmond : 1921
First edition, first impression, one of 1,000 copies of this only collection of short stories to be published in Woolf's lifetime, and an early Hogarth Press production. Leonard Woolf stated that the work "was printed by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, Richmond, who used to give him advice on printing problems when he and Mrs. Woolf first started... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 138929
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WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday.Richmond : 1921
First edition, first impression, one of 1,000 copies of this collection of short stories, and an early Hogarth Press production. Leonard Woolf stated that the work "was printed by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, Richmond, who used to give him advice on printing problems when he and Mrs. Woolf first started the Hogarth Press" (Kirkpatrick). Woolf... Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 137334
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WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob's Room.Richmond : 1922
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 Virginia Woolf and signed by her. These copies were issued in advance of the trade publication and were not issued in dust jacket; they were given to the 40 active subscribers who had supported... Learn More£25,000.00Stock Code: 38018
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WOOLF, Virginia. Autograph letter signed to T. S. Eliot.Hogarth House, Paradise Road, Richmond, Surrey : Sunday [?12 November 1922]
An exceptional letter connecting two of the key figures of the English modernist movement, here in their capacity as publisher/editors in the annus mirabilis of modernist publishing. Virginia Woolf writes to T. S. Eliot, addressing him familiarly as "Tom", on Hogarth House stationery towards the end of 1922, the year in which the Woolfs began to run... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 126655
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WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob's Room.Richmond : 1922
First edition, first impression. One of 40 "A" subscribers' copies with the part-printed limitation label to the front free endpaper completed in ink by Virginia Woolf and signed by her. These copies were issued in advance of the trade publication and were not issued in dust jacket; they were given to the active subscribers who had supported the press's... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 65828
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WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob's Room.London : 1922
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 41211
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WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.London : 1925
First edition, first impression, of Woolf's mould-breaking masterpiece, in the very scarce Vanessa Bell jacket. Only 2,000 copies of the first printing were produced, and the dust jacket is rare in collectable condition.
"Woolf maintained that her generation had to break the mould of the novel in order to speak of the radically changed world... Learn More£27,500.00Stock Code: 138396
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WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando.New York : 1928
First US trade edition, first printing. Woolf's Orlando is widely recognized as a masterpiece of modernist and feminist literature, and remains among her best-known works. It was first published in a signed limited edition in New York on 2 October 1928; the first trade edition was issued in London on 11 October and this edition followed a week later.... Learn More£675.00Stock Code: 142435
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WOOLF, Virginia. Memories of a Working Women's Guild. Offprint from.1930
First printing of this essay, reprinted (revised) as the introduction to Life as We Have Known It, Margaret Llewelyn Davies (ed), Hogarth Press 1931; collected in The Captain's Death Bed, 1950; Selections from Her Essays, 1966; Collected Essays, Vol. 4, 1967. Woolf had an active interest in the Labour Party and Co-operative Movement and regularly held... Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 46212
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Waves.London : 1931
First edition, first impression, of Woolf's most ambitious and experimental novel, hailed by Cyril Connolly as her "masterpiece". "It is one of the books which comes nearest to stating the mystery of life and so, in a sense, nearest to solving it" (Connolly, p. 49). Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 138885
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WOOLF, Virginia. Aurora Leigh. Offprint from1931
First printing of this appreciation of Elizabeth Barret Browning's Aurora Leigh (1856). Woolf's essay was reprinted and slightly revised in TLS on 2 July 1931; The Common Reader: Second Series, 1932; and in the Collected Essays, Vol. I, 1966. In this essay Woolf analyses Browning's work and writing form, and wonders why it has "left no successors",... Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 46203
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WOOLF, Virginia. Flush.London : 1933
First edition, first impression, of Woolf's imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's dog Flush, "the spaniel who shared the sickroom of Elizabeth Barrett and accompanied her when she eloped with Browning" (ODNB). The dust jacket declares this to be a "large paper edition", but all copies of the first impression were in this format. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 138408
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Years.London : 1937
First edition, first impression, rare with the jacket in such good condition. This is Woolf's penultimate novel, also the most popular during her lifetime. She began writing it in the early 1930s as a novel-essay titled The Pargiters, and subsequently divided it into two parts: the fiction portion became The Years and the essay portion the basis for... Learn More£2,000.00Stock Code: 141987
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Years.London : 1937
First edition, first impression. This is Woolf's penultimate novel, also the most popular during her lifetime. She began writing it in the early 1930s as a novel-essay titled The Pargiters, and subsequently divided it into two parts: the fiction portion became The Years and the essay portion the basis for Three Guineas. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 36188
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WOOLF, Virginia. Three Guineas.London : 1938
First edition, first impression. Written as a companion piece to her earlier essay, A Room of One's Own, Woolf addresses how women can influence and prevent the rise of militarism, when they are excluded from education, professional employment, and the public sphere. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 138941
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WOOLF, Virginia. Roger Fry: A Biography.London : 1940
First edition, first impression, of Woolf's biography of Roger Fry, English painter and fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group. Woolf wrote the biography at the request of the Fry family. Learn More£850.00Stock Code: 138410
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WOOLF, Virginia. Between the Acts.London : 1941
First edition, first impression, in unusually nice condition. This is Woolf's final novel, published four months after her death. This copy is from the library of Bloomsbury Group and Hogarth Press collector William Beekman, with his bookplate to the front pastedown. Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 144864
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WOOLF, Virginia. Between The Acts.1941
First edition, first impression. Faulkner's third collection of short stories. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 35851
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WOOLF, Virginia - BELL, Quentin. Virginia Woolf. A Biography.London : 1972
First edition, first printings. Learn More£150.00Stock Code: 142506
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Letters; The Diaries.London : 1975-84
First editions, first impressions, of the complete set of Woolf's collected letters and diaries. The letters, edited by Nigel Nicolson, record in stunning detail the evolution of Woolf's unmistakable style and provide an impressively comprehensive gathering of her correspondence from childhood until her death in 1941. Woolf's diaries, which she kept... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 142503
