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KENNEDY, Richard. A Boy at the Hogarth Press. Heinemann, London, 1972.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrations by author. Introduction by Bevis Hillier. Small 4to. Tan linen with gilt lettering, pictorial dust jacket. x, 86pp. Frontispiece, numerous line drawings. Fine/very good. Single chip at head of lightly-edgeworn jacket. Handsome, tight first trade edition, preceded only by a Whittington Press limited edition this same year. Charming recollectionse of Leonard Woolf's teenage apprentice at this noted press and his memories of the Bloomsbury group. Tipped to rear pastedown is a large foldout featuring Kennedy's image of the press and its various offices -- delightful!
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$91.36 + shipping
Description: FIRST LIMITED EDITION, SIGNED & NUMBERED at rear; quarto illus. green cloth boards, purple endpapers, complimentary slip loosely enclosed, illus. w/ folding illus. at rear, VG+ (sl. soiling to boards) in d/w VG+ (sl. fading to spine, prev. owner's clear tape repair to closed tear reverse of jacket (unobtrusive))
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Kennedy, Richard. A Boy at the Hogarth Press. Whittington Press, London, 1972.
Price: US$109.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: blue illustrated (dyed batik) cloth, dust jacket, 87 pp, dust jacket torn at edges and up lower front repaired with tape, advance copy of limited edition of 520 copies, first few pages in typewritten and laid in Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders. Cloth/dust jacket and mylar wrapped octavo.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Price: US$256.53 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 388/520 COPIES printed on Wookey Hole mouldmade paper and signed by the author, this copy additionally signed by the printer, numerous line-drawings, some full-page, by the author, title printed in red, a folding-plan illustrating the layout of the press room printed in black and red and tipped in at the end, pp. xii, 88, 4to, original purple lettered cloth from a design by John Charleston, ownership inscription of Peter Cowan to flyleaf, a slip with his notes loosely inserted, Press subscription slip (referring to this book) laid in at front,dustjacket with hint of fading to backstrip panel, very good. Recollections of two years spent working for the Woolfs at the Hogarth Press. (Butcher 1)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Signed x [2], 85 [34] pp, Drawings No. 117 of 520, signed on colophon page. Batik cloth over board, "designed by Joan Charleston and printed by Garry Savege, and the books bound by Hunter & Foulis Ldt, Edinburgh. The line blocks were made by Craske, Vaus & Crampton Ltd, and the fold-out view of the Hogarth Press was printed lithographically by C. F. R. Woodward Ltd, Bath." Ochre colour dust wrapper. The author worked for 2 years at the Hogarth Press under Leonard Woolf. Fine, dw touch of sunning at edges and small tears at spine and corners.
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good with good to very good dust jacket and fine condition fold out at back free endpaper. Signed by the author on colophon page. Book is bumped at the corners. Dust jacket is bumped at top edges with a one inch tear at top of spine.
Seller: Jerry Merkel, XENIA, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Whittington Press, London, January 1972, LIMITED EDITION #277 of 520 copies SIGNED by the author, introduction by Bevis Hillier, profusely illustrated with b&w line drawings some full-page by Richard Kennedy, fold-out plan of the Hogarth Press by the author bound in back of book, mould made paper from Wookey Hole Mill, EX-LIBRARY COPY with minimal marks, 7-1/2"x 10", blue batik cloth binding designed by Joan Charleston, spine ends lightly bumped, very good dust jacket protected in a new plastic cover, remains of library labels on free front endpaper are the only library marks, otherwise contents clean and tight, book very good (VG/VG) 1054 [ISlo10ABE]
Seller: Librarium, East Chatham, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$448.94 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Number 164 of 495 (520) copies printed in Caslon, the title in red, on Wookey Hole mould-made paper, signed by the author. Line-block reproductions of 40 drawings and a lithographic reproduction plan of the Press (510 X 375mm) by Richard Kennedy. Green batik cloth-covered boards by Joan Charleston with magenta endpapers (one glued down). Brown Ingres paper dust-jacket printed blue-grey, with a drawing from the text in white. A fine copy with a Whittington Press compliments slip loosely inserted Presentation copy: With best wishes to Barbara Freeston from Richard Kennedy. The first book from Whittington Press.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
Richard Kennedy. Virginia Woolf. Richard Kennedy, 1972.
Price: US$1693.13 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Kennedy (Richard, 1910-1989). Virginia Woolf, Whittington Press, circa 1972, four hand-coloured lithographs of Virginia Woolf, signed by the artist to lower right, each numbered in blue ink to lower left corner, the largest 43 x 30.5 cm, with separate letterpress title note, numbered to lower right corner, limited edition 39/100 There have been many memoirs of life among the Bloomsberries, but none more wickedly frank or funny than A Boy at the Hogarth Press. In 1926, at the age of 16, Richard Kennedy left school without a single qualification and went to work at Leonard and Virginia Woolf’s Hogarth Press. This lovely memoir is characterized by the same self-deprecating humour and gently pitiless observation that marks A Boy at the Hogarth Press but, unlike that well-intentioned but often disastrous sojourn in Bloomsbury, it contains a true epiphany: the moment at which Kennedy realized his vocation as an artist. The rare lithographs of Virgina Woolf are a wonderful association with the artist, Woolf, the Bloomsbury group and the Hogarth press.
Seller: PETER FRY (PBFA), Grange- over -Sands, CUMBR, United Kingdom