SELECTIONS AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND IMAGINATIVE FROM THE WORKS OF GEORGE GISSING WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL NOTES BY HIS SON.
London: Jonathan Cape, [1929]. First edition. Octavo. Coffee-brown cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine; publisher's device of a bowl with monogram in blind on lower board. First edition, first impression. Introduction by Virginia Woolf, pages 9-16, published here in the year her A Room of One's Own was published. Top and fore edges trimmed, bottom partially trimmed, endpapers slightly offset from dust jacket. A contemporary inscription: "Valentine, 'Take and keep this, not for its worth for God knows it has little, but in memory of my love.' ("Veranilda")" [quoting Gissing's unfinished novel Veranilda] on front free endpaper, with an additional loose inscription laid in: "To dearest Valentine [Ackland] / In remembrance of 29.7.29. / With fondest love from / Frankie [Francis Birrell]." Very good or better. Saxe-blue dust jacket dust jacket printed in orange-yellow, spine lightly sunned, small closed tear at spine top of rear panel, price intact, very good or better.
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KIRKPATRICK & CLARKE B9a.
Price: $325.00