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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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. 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. 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. 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.London : 1922
First edition, first impression. Jacob's Room, Woolf's third novel, was the first full-length book to be published by the Hogarth Press, and marked the point from which the Woolfs decided to run the Press as a genuine business concern. Learn More£1,650.00Stock Code: 28033
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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. Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown.London : 1924
First edition, first impression. This essay, on writing, reading, and modernity, was published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press on 30 October 1924. The first instalment of the first series of Hogarth Essays, it is one of 1,000 copies. Learn More£250.00Stock Code: 145961
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader.London : 1925
First edition, first impression, of the first of the two volumes of Woolf's Common Reader, collecting critical essays, articles, and book reviews that had previously appeared in various publications. Learn More£400.00Stock Code: 146658
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WOOLF, Virginia. On Being Ill [in:] The New Criterion.London : 1926
First edition, first impression, including the first appearance in print of Woolf's On Being Ill, which was written after experiencing a period of severe manic-depression and later first published separately by her at the Hogarth Press in 1930. This is a rare find, and especially so in such good condition.
On Being Ill (pp. 32-45) is here published... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145068
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WOOLF, Virginia. Beau Brummell.New York : 1930
Signed limited edition, number 91 of 550 copies only, signed by the author in her customary purple ink on the half-title verso. This essay was first published in Nation and Athenaeum, 28 September 1929. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145936
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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. 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. Walter Sickert:London : 1934
First separate edition, first impression. Woolf's essay appeared in the Yale Review in September 1934, before it was published by the Hogarth Press on 25 October later that year. This is one of 3,800 copies printed. Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 145953
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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, even though they are excluded from education, professional employment, and the public sphere. Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 138941
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WOOLF, Virginia. Reviewing.London : 1939
First edition, first impression. This essay, published on 2 November 1939, was the fourth instalment of the Hogarth Sixpenny Pamphlets series. It is one of 5,140 copies printed. Learn More£75.00Stock Code: 145970
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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 has a highly distinguished collector's provenance, with the bookplate of William Beekman on the front pastedown. Much of Beekman's excellent Bloomsbury Group and Hogarth Press collection now forms part of the Berg... Learn More£1,000.00Stock Code: 144864
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WOOLF, Virginia. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays.London : 1942
First edition, first impression, of Virginia Woolf's posthumously published collection of essays, which she was working on as a follow up to the Common Reader prior to her death, and subsequently seen through the press by her husband Leonard Woolf.
This copy has a highly distinguished collector's provenance, bearing the bookplate of William Beekman... Learn More£350.00Stock Code: 145083
