Items from the William Beekman Collection of Virginia Woolf and Her Circle is held at The New York Public Library in the Berg Collection since 2019; many of the books within this collection were originally owned, or gifted, by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf. This collection was assembled by collector William Beekman over the course of several decades.
New York City: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, [2004]. Octavo. Decorated green and white stiff card, paper label, full fold-in flaps. First edition. Frontispiece color illustration, color plates. [8],67,[5] pp. Excerpt of 1928 letter to Virginia Woolf as prologue; Introduction by Sackville-West's son, Nigel Nicolson; Notes, and Works Cited. Collection of forty-five.....
Brooklyn, NY: Hamilton Easter Field, May, 1921. Tall octavo. Printed and decorated gray wrappers. First edition. Cover art by Robert Laurent. Full and half-page black and white reproductions of important art exhibited during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Art and artists, exhibitions, books, letters and opinions of the.....
London: Edward Arnold & Co., 1934. Thick octavo. Navy cloth, gilt spine. x,277,[1] pp. Frontispiece portrait by Roger Fry, numerous photographic plates and facsimiles. Presentation copy from Forster to Fry, "Roger from Morgan / 13-4-34," written on the second free endpaper. Forster was a friend to Dickinson for 35 years.....
Cambridge: King's College Cambridge, 1933. Small octavo. Brown cardstock, string bound, printed in black. First edition. Frontispiece portrait, and one additional portrait plate of G. L. D. at Charleston, the home of Vanessa Bell, et al; each photo with tissue guard. Printed at the University Press, January 1933, for distribution.....
New York: The Grolier Club, 2008. First edition, limited edition. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated paper. 11.5 x 8.75 in. [4],152,[6] pp. Color frontispiece, and numerous color plate illustrations. Introductory note, ten individual topical essays, author biographies, notes, and bibliography. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Grolier Club, New.....
London: Chatto & Windus, 1924. First edition. Octavo. Plum and black cloth, paper spine label. T.e.g. Wood-engraved tile page vignette, dust jacket, and text illustrations by R. A. Garnett, the author's first wife. Very good, off-setting to endsheets, the book label of collector William Beekman, whose stunning Hogarth Press /.....
Hackney, London: The Stourton Press, 1988. Private, Limited Edition. Tall, thin octavo. Red cloth, gilt stamped spine. Frontispiece photograph of Rylands tipped-in. Privately printed for Lord Rothschild, limited edition № 32 of two hundred. Signed by Lord Rothschild on the Rylands photograph "Victor Rothschild," in black ink, and signed below.....
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.....
London: Aurum Press, [2003]. Tall octavo. Cloth with gilt spine. Family genealogy on front and rear endpapers. xv,[1],320pp. Forty black & white plates, many full-page. Prologue, list of illustrations, endnotes, and index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Cameron was at the center of a circle of English artists and writers who.....
London: The Hogarth Press, 1949. First edition, first impression. Plum colored cloth, gilt title and decoration. 109 pp. Sunned at spine, ownership inscription of Elizabeth Plunket Greene on front free endpaper, else very good, in the scarce Duncan Grant designed jacket, unclipped, with an internal reinforcement at the crown of.....
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[London:]: Horizon, June 1941. Tan wrappers, printed in black. 72 pp. Black & white plates of Anglo-Saxon art. Cyril Connolly, editor. "Frederick Ashton," Beryl De Zoete; "The Freedom of Necessity -- I," Archimedes; "Virginia Woolf," Martin Turnell; "The Petrified Man," Eudora Welty; "The Art of the Anglo-Saxons," T. D. Kendrick.....
London: William Heinemann, Ltd., [1934]. First edition. Thick octavo. Brown cloth, stamped in gilt. [10],531,[1] pp. Shelf wear at bottom edge, top edge of spine close-splayed, bookplate to front pastedown, stamp of NY literary agency to first free endpaper, else rather good; in an unclipped pictorial dust jacket that has.....
New York: Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc., 1973. First American edition. Octavo. Navy cloth, gilt spine. Top edge red. 177 pp. Color frontispiece photo by Mark Gerson of Dora Carrington's portrait of Lytton Strachey. Edited and with an Introduction and Commentaries by Paul Levy. Printed in Great Britain. Bookplate of.....
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, [2005]. Thick octavo, cream cloth. First American edition. 698 pp. Edited by Paul Levy, assisted by Penelope Marcus. Levy, one of the co-executors of Strachey's literary estate, presents the fascinating correspondence of [Giles] Lytton Strachey, one of the most influential and persistent members in.....
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[London:]: Horizon, November 1946. Cream wrappers, printed in teal and black. 72 pp. Eight black & white plates. Cyril Connolly, editor. "Comment," Cyril Connolly; "Right, Left or Centre," Edward Glover; "The Best and the Worst -- I: Virginia Woolf," Philip Toynbee; "Magic Icons," Nicolas Calas; "Some Contemporary Italian Writers," Bernard.....
London: Cecil Woolf, [2001]. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. First edition. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series 31. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 40 pp. Translated by Catherine Ames; Jean Moorcroft Wilson, editor. One b&w half-tone photo by Julia Margaret Cameron, and.....
London: Cecil Woolf, [1997]. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. First edition. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series 16. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 20 pp. Facsimiles of drawings and inscriptions by Sir Leslie Stephen and Virginia Woolf scattered in text. No other.....
[Southport, UK]: Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2003. First, limited edition. Yellow card stapled wrappers, paper label. 28 pp. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies, of which 50 copies have been signed by the author on the title page. This is the fourth in the Virginia Woolf.....
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1932. First Edition. Octavo. Original wrappers printed in black, preserved in the original glassine dust wrappers. 268pp. Bibliography. A bump to the upper corner, else a near fine copy of this uncommon title written in French. From the library of noted Bloomsbury collector, William Beekman.....
Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 1932. First Edition. Duodecimo. Quarter bound in leather with five raised bands and gilt lettering to spine, deep green and black marbled boards. Georgeous green and gilt endpapers. Original wrappers printed in black, bound in; silk place marker. 268pp. Bibliography. Leather rubbed at crown and.....
London: Cecil Woolf, [2000]. First edition. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 24 pp., 8 unnumbered pages of 10 color plates, 6 b&w. Glossary, conspectus, bibliography, and notes. Crease on lower wrapper fore-tip, else about fine. .....
London: Cecil Woolf, [2001]. First edition. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. First edition. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 28 pp. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series No. 29; Jean Moorcroft Wilson, general editor. Printed on blue paper; illustrated by Sandra Lello throughout. .....
Paris: Librairie Stock Delamain et Boutelleau, 1935. First French Edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. xvi, 208pp. Traduit de l'anglais par Charles Mauron; Préface de Louis Gillet. Near fine, wrappers preserved in an acetate cover. From the library of the noted Bloomsbury collector William Beekman, with his bookplate affixed to the.....
Paris: Librairie Stock Delamain et Boutelleau, 1931. First French Edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. xiv, 15-266pp. Traduction et préface de Charles Mauron. Introduction by the author, Virginia Woolf. Near fine, a few old spots on wraps, tiny split near toe of spine, else a clean and bright copy preserved in.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. SUMMER 1930. Octavo, pp. 754-761. Tear-sheets, side-stapled in their original blue printed wrappers. Offprint from THE YALE REVIEW, Summer 1930. Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, UK bookseller's pencil notations [original price list advice at £500 laid in] on p.xxix, bookplate of the noted Virginia.....