WOOLF, Virginia.
Rare books by Virginia Woolf, including first editions, signed and finely bound copies, and original letters and manuscripts.
Virginia Woolf is widely considered to be one of the most important figures in modern literature. Her works are characterized by their stream of consciousness narrative, exploration of the inner lives of characters, and the use of symbolism. Her writing was heavily influenced by her own experiences and by the societal constraints of her time, and her work is often credited with pushing these boundaries of traditional narrative and challenging societal norms. For these reasons her writing is seen as a major part of, and has had a significant impact on, the feminist movement.
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Video:Jacob's Room, Virginia Woolf. First Edition 1922
Virginia Woolf, Orlando, first edition presentation copy 1928
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
WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series.London : 1932
First edition, an exceptionally bright example, with a Hogarth Press advertisement for the works of Virginia Woolf loosely inserted. This copy is the second and last instalment in the Common Reader series, following that of 1925.
Woolf's writing was always "permeated with her reading" and in these essays she explores the works of many...Learn More
WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando. A Biography.New York : 1928
True first edition, number 73 of 800 copies signed by the author on the half-title verso, from a limited edition of 861 copies. It precedes by nine days the first trade edition, issued by the Hogarth Press on 11 October. Inspired by Vita Sackville-West, the novel was described by her son Nigel Nicolson as "the longest love letter in history".Learn More
WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader.London : 1925
First edition 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
WOOLF, Virginia. Monday or Tuesday.Richmond : 1921
First edition. This early Hogarth Press publication was the only short story collection by Woolf published in her lifetime. "Leonard Woolf stated that the book 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"...Learn More
WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway.London : 1925
First edition, Hugh Walpole's copy, with his morocco bookplate and ownership signature, dated May 1925, to the front endpapers. The two writers had a long, affectionate friendship, often reading each other's novels and discussing their writing over tea or in letters.
They first met in 1928, when Walpole presented Woolf with the Femina Vie...Learn More
WOOLF, Virginia. To the Lighthouse.London : 1927
First edition. Woolf wrote To the Lighthouse "at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision... It is the sunniest of her books and shows the obsession with rendering the passage of time which dominated her later work" (Connolly). The novel "displays Woolf's technique of narrating through stream of consciousness and imagery at its most...Learn More
WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando.London : 1928
First trade edition of the author's masterpiece of modernist and feminist literature. Dedicated to Vita Sackville-West, whose androgynous personality inspired the character, the book was described by her son Nigel Nicolson as "the longest love letter in history".
This edition was preceded by the signed limited edition, published in New York...Learn More
WOOLF, Virginia. Typed letter signed to Alfred Cecil Piper.5 September 1934
Woolf writes to the librarian Alfred Cecil Piper (1883-1973), declining an invitation to speak at the Rotary Club in Richmond: "unfortunately I am unable to make speeches, and for some time past have therefore refused all invitations to do so". The letter includes one correction in Woolf's hand, amending "way" to "away" in the second...Learn More
WOOLF, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall.Richmond : 1919
First separate edition, second overall, one of 1,000 copies printed. "The Mark on the Wall" was first published alongside Leonard Woolf's "Three Jews" in the Hogarth Press's debut publication, Two Stories. This edition incorporates Woolf's slight editorial changes.Learn More
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
WOOLF, Virginia. "Memories of a Working Women's Guild." Offprint.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...Learn More
