THE YEARS.
Tavistock Square, London: by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1937. Bell, Vanessa [dust wrapper]. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Pale green cloth printed in gilt. 7 1/8 x 4 3/4" Cream dust wrapper printed in black and brown, designed and signed in the design by Vanessa Bell. A very good copy, front hinge starting, former owner signature on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good, respectable, dust wrapper with the usual chips and a split along the front spine edge.
First edition, published March 1937 at the Woolf's Tavistock Square home and publishing company. Woolf was said to have been pleased with THE YEARS because it sold more copies on reception than any of her other novels but she felt a failure, as she wrote in her private correspondence to her friend Margaret Keynes [sister-in-law to Maynard Keynes], "20th June 1937 Dear Margaret, It was very nice of you to write. It's so seldom any letter about one's books gives one pleasure but yours did; for one thing you liked some of the same people that I liked ... I thought it a complete failure when I'd done: it's a marvel to me that you find it not mere old wives gossip: I was very excited when I wrote it, I remember -- only it was way too long and I was ill, and I couldn't pull it together. And oh, what a grind it was, cutting out, and trying to make a whole of it. But now your letter is a consolation" -- Nicolson, Vol. Six, p.138.
. Item #000095
WOOLMER 423; KIRKPATRICK A22a.
Price: $650.00