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.
Sheffield: Sheffield City Art Galleries, 1979. Pictorial stapled deep blue wrappers. First edition. Forward by Frank Constantine; twelve page introduction by Frances Spalding, with notes. Forty-six items are listed in the exhibition; list of over seventeen book jackets, their original designs for Virginia Woolf and others, along with a selection.....
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: Chatto & Windus, 1922. First edition. Octavo. Plum and black cloth, paper spine label. T.e.g. Wood-engraved frontispiece, with printed tissue guard, and vignettes by R. A. Garnett, the author's first wife. About fine but for the presence of the book labels of two noted book collectors: Samuel Garcia Asher.....
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.....
London: L. J. Maxse, 1905. Folio. Printed wrappers. vii,192,ix-xii pp. Cracking and losses to spine with a one-inch square loss to rear panel near upper spine; bookplate of Hogarth Press and all things Bloomsbury-related collector, William Beekman affixed to verso of upper wrapper, else very good. Rare.There has been little.....
New York / London: Crosby Gaige / Chatto & Windus, 1928. First edition. Black cloth spine, stamped in gilt, floral decorated boards. Frontispiece portrait and five full-page plates. Signed by Strachey on the verso of of the first tipped-in flyleaf, as was the convention. Bookplate of the Hogarth Press /Bloomsbury.....
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.....
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. Large quarto. Original blue printed wrappers, signatures sewn. Vol. XX September 1930 No. 1. [lvi,216,lxiv pp.] Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, short split to upper wrapper at spine edge, tape residue to top edge of the upper wrapper and similarly to the top edge.....
[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.....