Item 399POPE THE LESLIE STEPHEN LECTURE FOR 1925.
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1925. Teal blue wrappers, paper label. First edition. Light use at edges, else about fine, and absolutely hilarious.
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Item 397FANFARE FOR ELIZABETH.
New York: The Macmillan Company, 1946. Blue cloth, gilt spine. Frontispiece portrait, and three further black & white plates. Near fine in a slightly nicked, unclipped pictorial dust jacket.First edition, first printing, preceding the British edition. Elizabeth Tudor grew up in the Court of Henry VIII, he being her father.....
Item 396BOOKS AND CHARACTERS FRENCH & ENGLISH.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1922. Bright green loth, paper spine label. Frontis, five plates. With the bookplate of collector/bibliographer Richard Little Purdy. Label darkened, else a near fine copy, lacking the jacket. A must for Bloomsbury collectors.First edition. Dedicated to his friend John Maynard Keynes, Strachey presents his biographical portraits.....
Item 395THE PLAYER'S BOY.
New York: Pantheon, [1953]. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, preceding the British publication. Poet Ralph Hodgson's copy, with his ownership signature and date. Offset to endsheets from clipping, otherwise a nice copy in lightly edgeworn dust jacket.
Item 393VIRGINIA WOOLF: A WRITER'S LIFE.
New York: W. W. Norton & Co., [1984]. Gilt cloth and boards. Ten black and white plates. Notes, biographical sources, and an index. Fine, in a very good or better pictorial dust jacket.First US edition. A very sensitive work of biography that balances the influences of Woolf's life's experiences on.....
Item 391THIS JANUARY TALE.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1966]. Cloth and boards. Gilt green cloth. First edition, preceding the UK edition by almost two years. Near fine in very good, lightly rubbed and smudged pictorial dust jacket.Bryher (1894 – 1983) was the pen name of the English novelist, poet, memoirist, and magazine.....
Item 383MURRAY'S BUCKINGHAMSHIRE ARCHITECTURAL GUIDE.
London: John Murray, [1948]. Small quarto. Pictorial red cloth. First edition. 166 black & white half-tone plates and photographs, most of which have been specially taken by Betjemand and Piper, a folding map, a Gazetteer to all the Parishes, and an index. Boards a trace bowed, otherwise very good copy.....
Item 382GOLD COAST CUSTOMS.
London: Duckworth, [1929]. Black cloth, lettered in red to upper panel and spine. 7.5" by 5". Frontispiece portrait of Sitwell by Pavel Tchelitchew. About fine, in lightly spotted pictorial dust jacket.First edition. Sitwell's long poem of 500-plus lines combines both dense and obscure language with a bleak picture of modern.....
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Item 381EPILOGUE A CRITICAL SUMMARY VOLUME I -- AUTUMN 1935 [with] EPILOGUE A CRITICAL SUMMARY VOLUME II -- SUMMER 1936.
Deya Majorca / London, The Seizin Press / Constable & Co. Ltd., 1935 & 1936. Two volumes. Octavos. Black pictorial print on paper-covered boards. Volume I has five black & white plates, scattered foxing, particularly on its endpapers, a bump on the lower fore-tip, and darkened spine. Volume II has.....
Item 374VIRGINIA WOOLF A COMMENTARY.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1949. Bright green cloth, spine stamped in gilt. First American edition. Very good in spine-tanned, price-clipped dust jacket with light chipping to spine ends. Dust jacket cover photo by Man Ray for Harper's Bazaar. .
Item 373SNAPSHOTS OF BLOOMSBURY THE PRIVATE LIVES OF VIRGINIA WOOLF AND VANESSA BELL.
New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, [2006]. Large octavo. Green cloth boards, gilt spine lettering. 11.25 x 8.75" x,266,[4]pp. Over 206 black and white photographs. Fine, in fine pictorial dust jacket.First edition. "Humm makes available for the first time a trove of barely known photographs, both amateur and professional, casting.....
Item 371THREE GUINEAS.
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1938. Large crown octavo. Deep pink cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Edges trimmed, top blue-grey. Five black and white half-tone photographic illustrations. Spine slightly sunned, tiny dot on lower panel, else remarkably near fine internally.First American edition. Written as a sequel to A......
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Item 367[Autograph note, signed, from:] HAROLD NICOLSON TO CLIVE BELL [with] BELL'S SIGNED NOTE ON VERSO.
London: The Authors, 1937. Cream colored paper note, 4 x 6". On the left margin is the Garrick Club logo, printed in blue: A globe with the statement, "All the World's a Stage" on a banner below the globe, and the monogram GARRICK CLUB, W.C.2. on the right margin. From.....
Item 364THROWN TO THE WOOLFS.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1979]. Cloth and boards, gilt spine. Black and white photo illustrations. A fine, unmarked copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket.First American edition. Mixing personal and literary history, Lehmann writes of his friendship and partnership with Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press.....
Item 363ELIZABETH AND ESSEX A TRAGIC HISTORY.
London: Chatto & Windus, 1928. Cloth. First U.K. edition. Bookplate of collector/Hardy bibliographer Richard Purdy, and a small London bookseller's label affixed to front pastedown. A couple of corners bumped, else about fine, lacking the dust jacket.
Item 362BARBARIANS AT THE GATE.
London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd. / Left Book Club Edition, 1939. Pink paper over boards, printed in black. Foreword by the author. Spine very slightly cocked, darkening at spine, text block uniformly tanned as a result of the poor quality of the paper, crown of spine rubbed, spot on upper panel.....
Item 357SOME CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH ARTISTS.
[London:]: Birrell and Garnett, Ltd., 1921. Small pamphlet in card wrappers, the cover is designed by Duncan Grant. Eight pages of text, contents page, and twenty-two unnumbered leaves of plates, printed on rectos only. Some scattered foxing to text block, slight crease to prelims, very scarce or no foxing to.....
Item 352STEPHEN VERSUS GLADSTONE.
[Headington, Oxfordshire]: Headington Quarry, 1967. Royal octavo, single quire hand-sewn into printed mulberry wrappers. Bookplate of the noted Virginia Woolf/Hogarth Press collector William Beekman affixed to the verso of the upper panel. Text consists of a letter written by Leslie Stephen to C. E. Norton, dated 7 December 1892, relating.....
Item 350NEVER BE A BOOKSELLER.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1929. First edition. Decorated sewn wrappers, printed label. Black and white photographs. Wraps have a smudge on the upper panel and are fairly dusty, bookplate of noted Hogarth Press collector William Beekman to verso of upper panel, else very good. Very rare in commerce.First edition.....
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