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WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series.
London : 1932
First edition, first impression, of the second of the two volumes of Woolf's Common Reader, collecting critical essays, articles, and book reviews that had previously appeared in various publications. With a Hogarth Press advertisement for the works of Virginia Woolf loosely inserted. Hogarth Press books are notoriously fragile, this copy is remarkably... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 145071
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FORSTER, E. M. The Story of the Siren.
Richmond, London : 1920
First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies printed. This copy has an excellent Bloomsbury provenance, being that of Frances Partridge, with her ownership inscription to the front free endpaper, "Frances Marshall, 1921".
Both Marshall and Forster were closely entangled in the Bloomsbury set and consequently each other. In 1925 Forster... Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 139687
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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
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CLUTTON-BROCK, Arthur. Simpson's Choice.
London : 1915
First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies printed, this one hand-numbered by Roger Fry. Simpson's Choice was the first work to be published at the Omega Workshop, which was founded in July 1913, and was to be one of only four books completed by the press.
The original prospectus (not present here) stated the intention of this enterprise,... Learn More£3,000.00Stock Code: 146170
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CLUTTON-BROCK, Arthur. Simpson's Choice.
London : 1915
First edition, first impression, one of 500 copies printed, this copy is unnumbered but marked "Review Copy", and bears the pencil ownership inscription of the journalist and author Richard Ellis Roberts (1879-1953), to the front free endpaper.
Roberts was "for a few years from 1928, literary editor of the New Statesman, and a relatively undistinguished... Learn More£3,500.00Stock Code: 143062
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BUSSY, Dorothy & Simon. A series of letters to art historian and biographer Auguste Bréal.
Roquebrune, London, Nice, etc. : 1919-40
Dorothy Bussy (née Strachey) had translated Bréal's book on Velazquez back in 1905 and the present letters have an easy intimacy throughout. In the first she introduces J. M. Keynes "(pronounced Canes) He is something of a swell an intimate friend of my brother Lytton's, Duncan Grant's chief patron, the headquarters in fact of all the Bloomsbury... Learn More£5,000.00Stock Code: 114757
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VOLTAIRE. Le Siecle de Louis XIV.
Berlin : 1751
First edition, with a fine Bloomsbury Group provenance, presented by Lytton Strachey to Frances Marshall later Frances Partridge upon marriage, with a notation of the presentation in the latter's hand "Frances Marshall from Lytton 1931" in pencil on the front free endpaper. At the time of the presentation, Frances was the lover of Ralph Partridge,... Learn More£4,250.00Stock Code: 131267
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BLUNDEN, Edmund (comp.) Charles Lamb.
London : 1934
First edition, first impression, lengthily inscribed by Blunden on the front free endpaper recounting an interview between Lamb and "a Daily Mirage representative" and signed off to his dentist "Apologies to J.J.A. for this misuse of his Book and Waiting-Room, from his affectionate E. Blunden. 1934".
The recipient was the eminent Irish surgeon... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 145056
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BELL, Clive. Ad Familiares.
London : 1917
First edition, sole printing, one of about 50 copies printed for private distribution, presentation copy to Bloomsbury Group affiliate, Lady Ottoline Morrell, incorporating the first printed word at the start of the text "Dear Ottoline".
Ottoline Morrell (1873-1938), an aristocrat and society hostess, who counted in her artistic and intellectual... Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 145465
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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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RYLANDS, George. Russet and Taffeta.
London : 1925
First edition, first impression, signed by Rylands on the title page and inscribed by him on the front free endpaper with a quote from Shakespeare's Love's Labour's Lost, Act 5, Scene 2: "Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise.../ I do forswear them....../ Henceforth my wooing mind shall be express'd / In russet yeas, and honest kersey noes."
... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 145958
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BIRRELL, Francis (trans.); DIDEROT, Denis. Dialogues.
London : 1927
First edition, first impression, of this translation. Inscribed by Frankie Birrell to the Bloomsbury Group members Ralph and Frances Partridge on the front free endpaper: "To Ralph & Frances from the translator". Frances Partridge née Marshall worked at Birrell and Bunny Garnett's bookshop in her early 20s, and records in her autobiography her mother's... Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 131854