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E.M.Forster. A Letter to Madan Blanchard. The Hogarth Press, 1931.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Very Good in orginal illustrated cream card wraps, hand stitched, with cover design by the artist John Banting. First Edition, First Impression 1931. No.1 in the series The Hogarth Letters , published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. pp27 with B&W engraving of Prince Lee Boo after George Keates. No names, markings or inscriptions. Clean bright text block. Wraps slightly age toned. Rear has a crease at fore edge. Now protected in clear acetate dust jacket. E.M. Forster was inspired to write 'A Letter to Madan Blanchard', after coming across George Keate's 1788 account of Lee Boo, the second son of a Pacific Islands chief 'Abba Thulle', (Idebul) who died of smallpox after being brought to London. In August 1783, an East Indiaman, the 'Antelope', under the command of Captain Henry Wilson, was wrecked on a reef off the Pelew Islands ( now the Republic of Palau ). The Captain and crew developed good relations with the Chief and islanders, and when they eventually departed in a small ship they had built and named the 'Oroolong', after the island, they were asked to take the Chief's second eldest son back with them to England. The Wilson's took him into their home in London, where he was dubbed "The Black Prince", feted and admired for his charm and intelligence. He also attended school before his untimely death six months after he arrived. One sailor, Madan Blanchard, remained on the island when the 'Oroolong" left, was adopted by the family of Ibedul, provided with wives and took up the islanders' way of life. In this imaginary letter, E.M.Forster writes to Blanchard, ( who was illiterate and had been dead for around 150 years) and tells him what happened to Lee Boo once he left his island home. "I want to know why you stopped behind when the others went", he asks. Forster's dislike of Empire comes strongly through the letter. He sees Lee Boo as a 'puppet", "too harmless and people like that don't seem quite real". The East India Company, he asserts, planned to educate Lee Boo and "send him back to rule the islands for us . oust Qui Bill ( his brother) from the succession, conquer the Artingalls with musket fire, and reign over corpses and coconuts in a gold laced suit".

Seller: Barracks Books, Nash, United Kingdom

Leonard Woolf. AFTER THE DELUGE - A STUDY OF COMMUNAL PSYCHOLOGY Vol. 1. Hogarth Press, 1931.

Price: US$30.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 6 X 9 inches. 347 pages. First Edition. Orange cloth with gilt type on a very faded spine. No DJ. FON on FEP. Erratum slip tipped in. Solid square binding.

Seller: Ally Press Center, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

WOOLF, Leonard.. After the Deluge:. , 1931.

Price: US$38.99 + shipping

Description: A study of Communal Psychology. Vol. 1. 347pp Hogarth Press, London 1931. VG

Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom

Woolf, Leonard. AFTER THE DELUGE A Study of Communal Psychology Volume 1. The Hogarth Press, London, 1931.

Price: US$46.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Volume 1 only. 347 pages in very good, clean condition; edges and endpapers yellowed. Brown cloth with gilt titles on the spine. Light wear on corners, edges, head/tail of spine. VG-

Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Leonard Woolf. AFTER THE DELUGE - A STUDY OF COMMUNAL PSYCHOLOGY - Vol. 1 [First edition in partial scarce dustwrapper] Comes with period ephemera - an original brochure for the Schick Dry Shaver - the world's first electric razor]. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, Tavistock Square, London, 1931.

Price: US$162.44 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First impression of the true first edition, published in 1931 by the Hogarth Press. The book was published as the first volume in a longer work, which was followed in 1939 by a further volume "After the Deluge - A Study of Communal Psychology - Vol. II - 1830 and 1832" and a third and final volume in 1953 "Principia Politica: A Study of Communal Psychology, Being Volume 3 of After the Deluge". ***Near fine in light-brown cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The spine and the boards are remarkably clean, although there is some fading and discolouration to the top and bottom of the spine where the dustwrapper has got chipped. There is slight creasing to the top of the spine, but no tearing to the cloth whatsoever, and the corners are sharp. Spine tight. Top edge of page block dusty. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions. Pages clean with just some light foxing and offsetting to the endpapers. No internal foxing, creases or tears. ***In the remains of the dustwrapper, described as follows: the front panel is present and almost complete, but without the front flap which has become detached and lost. The front panel has some marks and discolouration, and there are some chips and closed tears to the edges. There is no spine to the dustwrapper, but the back panel is also present and complete, along with the back flap. Again, some marks and discolouration, chips and closed tears to the edges. ***224 mm x 148 mm. 347 pages including an Index of Persons and an Index of Subjects at the back of the book. ***'This is the first volume of a work which is intended to be a detailed survey of the whole of contemporary political and social psychology. It is an attempt to investigate the relation between our individual and communal beliefs and desires on the one hand and contemporary events (like the war) and civilization on the other. The first volume, which has taken a good many years to write, is mainly concerned with democracy and democratic psychology.' [Quote taken from the front of the dustwrapper] ***First impression of the true first edition, published in 1931 by the Hogarth Press, of this political work by Hogarth Press founder Leonard Woolf, husband of Virginia Woolf. The book itself is quite uncommon in first edition, and the dustwrapper (although only partially complete) is very scarce. ***With the additional benefit of some interesting ephemera, in the shape of a small 14pp illustrated booklet which would have accompanied a Schick Dry Shaver - the world's first patented electric razor! ***'Colonel Jacob Schick (Sep 16, 1877 - Jul 3, 1937) was an American inventor and entrepreneur who patented the first electric razor and started the Schick Dry Shaver, Inc. razor company. He is the father of electric razors. Schick successfully patented his first electric razor in May 1930.' [Wiki] --- bearing this in mind, this must have been one of the very first models of the razor, as the booklet was used as a place marker in the book, which was published the following year. A scarce piece of American ephemera. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom

RYLANDS, George. Poems. London: The Hogarth Press, 1931.

Price: US$194.93 + shipping

Description: Limited edition, no. 72 of 350 copies signed by the author, 8vo, (vi, 16, 2) pp. Original patterned boards, spine and edges browned, spine ends rubbed. See Woolmer 269 plus the illustration on p. 98, our copy being the early state noted with the comma after Leonard Woolf's initial in the imprint.

Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom

RYLANDS, George. Poems. London: V. Woolf at the Hogarth Press (1931). 12mo, 1931.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Description: Dadie Rylands was a Scholar at Eton and at King 's College, Cambridge, where he read classics and English literature. After graduation he worked for a few months at the Hogarth Press with Virginia and Leonard Woolf, who printed and published two volumes of his poetry. Poems was printed by hand by Virigina and Leonard Woolf. One of 350 numbered and signed copies (#260). Very good in decorative paper boards. First edition, first issue, with the comma after the "L" on the title-page.

Seller: Elysium Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.