Inscribed books
[New York]: Pantheon, [1958]. Cloth and boards. First edition (preceding the British printing). Photos by Islay de Courcy Lyon of the present day (1958) Paestum. With a gift inscription from novelist Francis Parkinson Keyes to a friend with whom she apparently spent a day in Paestum (Italy). Very good in.....
Norfolk, Connecticut, New Directions, [1942]. First edition. Small octavo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in blue. 169,[1]pp. Frontispiece portrait by Man Ray for "Harper's Bazaar." Ink personal inscription from the author to a friend on the front free endpaper. Selective bibliography and index. Very good or better, pictorial dust jacket by.....
Richmond: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1922. First edition, first impression. Octavo. Original publisher's crocus-yellow cloth boards, white label lettered in black on spine. 290,14pp. 7½ x 5 in. Published 27 October 1922, only 1200 copies printed at 7s. 6d. Boards are cleaner than usual.....
[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.....