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Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Original cream paper wrappers lettered and bordered in black to the front panel. An excellent near fine copy, the wrappers unusually bright and clean, the untrimmed pages a little toned (as usual). Tiny nick to the lower spine tip, with minor creasing to the outer edge of the front panel. A lovely copy. Andreev (1871-1919) has been described as the father of Russian Expressionist literature. During the early decades of the century he became known to an English-speaking audience primed by the stories of Edgar Allen Poe and the early writings of Freud. He was one of a small number of Russian authors published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf from their home-based Hogarth Press (the others including Dostoevsky, Bunin, and Olyesha). 'The Dark' (a long story or short novella whose protagonist, on the run, takes refuge in a brothel) was issued during a productive period for the press, the same year seeing the publication of two volumes of Freud's writings as well as Woolf's own 'Jacob's Room. In the following year they would publish Eliot's 'The Waste Land' (hand-set by Virginia). 'The Dark', dated 1922, was issued in January 1923. The number of copies printed is not known, but the account book for the press (now held at the University of Sussex) records that 628 copies had been sold by 29 March 1926. (Woolmer 18). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room. The Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1922.
Price: US$275.60 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: yellow cloth, label on the spine, no dust jacket, 290 pp second impression foxing on the pages covers worn on the edges rear inside joint split Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
Virginia Woolf.. Jacob's Room. The Hogarth Press, London UK, 1922.
Price: US$339.93 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original cloth boards with darkened spine, and label. Light wear/small tear to the spine ends and corners. Ex libris stamp on the front paste down. Light spotting within the text. Browning of the page ends. 219 pp with 14 pages of publishers advertisements at the rear.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1922.
Price: US$359.17 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hardback, original orange cloth. 20cm x 13.5cm. First edition of Woolf's third novel. Protagonist Jacob Flanders' story is told through the narrative of the women who interact with him throughout his life. One of 1200 copies of the first of Virginia Woolf's novels to be published by the Hogarth Press. 290pp + 14pp adverts at rear. 1st edition, 1st impression 1922. Ex-Boots library copy, with label removed from front board, with label to rear pastedown. Binding is grubby and worn, spine frayed, paper label to spine worn. Inner joints weak, some occasional foxing. A good reading copy. (bs28)
Seller: Besleys Books PBFA, Diss, United Kingdom
Price: US$769.66 + shipping
Description: The Hogarth Press. 1922. First edition. No DW. Only 1,200 produced of this first trade edition. Original mustard cloth, soiled and worn to edges, paper label to spine is rubbed. Ex-Boots-Library with remains of shield to front cover, borrowing plate to rear pastedown. No other signs of library use. Rear hinge visible but sound, front hinge very slightly visible, endpapers, margins and edges foxed. Generally a sound copy.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition First printing of the ordinary trade issue; 290 pages plus 14 numbered pages of ads and comments; bound in mustard-yellow cloth with printed paper spine label, page edges untrimmed; light edge rubs and mild corner bumps, light soil all over the covers; spine label age-toned and lightly rubbed along spine edges but with no chips; internally clean tight and unmarked nearly Fine condition, binding may have a very slight barely noticeable tilt; overall Very Good or slightly better, no ownership names present
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1218.62 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, 290, 14 advertisement pp. Marbled endpapers. Recent green full morocco, t.e.g., a lovely copy. Kirkpatrick A6a - 1,200 copies printed.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Woolf (Virginia). Jacob's Room.. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1922.
Price: US$1282.76 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, some light spotting, heavier at either end of textblock, pp. 290, [14, ads], crown 8vo, original yellow cloth, backstrip with printed label, the cloth lightly soiled overall with gentle rubbing to extremities, vertical crease to cloth of upper board, top edge dusty, others untrimmed and a little spotted, foxing to free endpapers, good. The first of the author's novels to be published by her. (Woolmer 26: Kirkpatrick A6a)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$1766.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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 having been kept in an acetate dust jacket in lieu of the Vanessa Bell wrapper, which is not present on this copy. Spine label darkened and chipped at left edge causing a small loss to the first letter in "JACOB." Top edge trimmed, others uncut. Some little edgewear, crown of spine may have been repaired. Interior clean and unmarked. Paris, December 1922 ownership inscription on first free endpaper of Edith Bone (1889-1975). Bone was a doctor, journalist, and translator who in 1949 was acting as a freelance correspondent in Budapest for the London Daily Worker when she was arrested and accused of spying. Bone was held in solitary confinement without trial for seven years, released in the last days of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 after which she wrote a book about her experience, Seven Years Solitary. More recently, from the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. Jacob's Room revolves around the life of Jacob Flanders, a young man living in early 20th-century England. Rather than following a conventional narrative structure, the novel presents a fragmented and impressionistic portrayal of Jacob's experiences, thoughts, and relationships. Woolf explores the complexities of identity, gender, an d society through vivid and entirely introspective prose. Jacob's character is shaped through the perspectives of various individuals (some have counted over 120 different named characters in the novel), including family, friends, acquaintances, passersby, as well as through the objects and places associated with him. The novel delves into themes of loss, the passage of time, and the transient nature of life, ultimately painting a poignant portrait of a life cut short by tragedy. Jacob's life is noteworthy for being less of a presence than an absence. KIRKPATRICK A6a; WOOLMER 26.
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition of this early novel grappling with the personal traumas of World War I, Woolf's first to experiment with modernist techniques that would become central to her style. A novel of grief that weaves complex inner lives for its characters, based in part on the death of Woolf's brother. The life of the title character, who died in World War I, is described in fragmentary sequences "so that the reader experiences the same problem faced by Jacob's survivors - how to piece together his life" (Lewis 112). Woolf's short story collection MONDAY OR TUESDAY (1919) also toys with stream of consciousness and other modernist techniques, but JACOB'S ROOM was the first novel in which she began working through these innovations. One of only 1200 copies printed, this in its unrestored original state. Octavo. 7.5'' x 5''. Original orange cloth, printed paper spine label. Fore-edge and bottom edge uncut. Publisher's catalogue at rear. 290, 14 pages. Label chipped with loss to the "J." Spine faded. Book has slight lean. Some bumping and edgewear. Interior clean and sound overall, cloth much less soiled than typically seen.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room. Hogarth Press, 1922.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good first edition with 1922 on the title page and no text on verso. One of 2,000 copies. Housed in a custom-made collector's slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room. London The Hogarth Press 1922, 1922.
Price: US$2244.83 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by The Hogarth Press in 1922. The book is very good and has a little light soiling to the top edge, some modest spotting to the page edges, with some light pushing to the spine ends. There is a small chip to the edge of the spine. Paper label a little patchy but titles are visible. Woolf's third novel, which describes Jacob Flanders' life story from childhood through his adulthood until his death in World War I. Only one of 1500 copies printed.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room. The Hogarth Press, 1922.
Price: US$2256.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First trade edition, one of 1200 copies, following the 40-copy Subscriber's Edition (Kirkpatrick A6a). Lacks jacket. Boards lightly soiled, though considerably less so than we generally see with this title (the yellow cloth was especially prone to becoming dirty and dingy). Minor loss from left edge of paper spine label ('J' lost), also a common flaw with this edition. Corners lightly bruised, small bookseller plate on rear endpaper. 1922 Hard Cover. 290, 14 pp. A novel by the feminist author and publisher known for Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, A Room of One's Own, etc. She and her husband Leonard founded The Hogarth Press, and they were both members of The Bloomsbury Group, a literary society composed of numerous important intellectuals and writers of the time. The first full-length book printed by The Hogarth Press. "With the publication of Jacob's Room the decision was taken to establish the Hogarth Press as a business concern and in future to publish all Mrs Woolf's works." (Kirkpatrick A6a) "All through Jacob's Room his would-be biographer talks directly to the reader: we two push ourselves forward?busy, agog, distractable?while our subject slips out of sight. The would-be biographer is vibrating 'at the mouth of the cavern of mystery, endowing Jacob Flanders with all sorts of qualities he had not at all ? What remains is mostly a matter of guess work. Yet over him we hang vibrating.' The biographic obsession is comic in its futility. The deliberately fragmented narrative with its curt sentences, its gaps and tantalizing glimpses, compels us to share in the biographer's effort and failure." - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia.. Jacob's Room.. London: Hogarth Press, 1922, 1922.
Price: US$3206.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. Jacob's Room, Woolf's third novel, was the first full-length book to be published by the Hogarth Press and marked the point from which the Woolfs decided to run the press as a genuine business concern. Octavo (180 x 120 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Light foxing to prelims and endmatter, otherwise a fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing and one of only 1,200 copies originally published by Virginia and her husband Leonard on their Hogarth Press. An unusually nice copy, bound in publisher's goldenrod cloth with title label to spine, lacking the scarce dust jacket. Near Fine with light stain to spine and a few small spots to the front cover, two roughly opened leaves (with loss only to blank margins) very skillfully mended with archival tissue, else virtually pristine. A difficult book to find in such nice condition.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia. JACOB'S ROOM >>Signed by Siegried Sassoon to Gabriel Atkin<<. Hogarth Press, 1922.
Price: US$7375.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1922 second impression, one of 2,000 copies. With this book (her 6th), the decision was taken to establish the Hogarth Press as a business concern & in future to publish all Virginia Woolf s works. Inscribed in ink on front free endpaper "Gabriel Atkin from S.S. [Siegfried Sassoon] June 1923 Antibes". Page 154 "Children ran across the road" underlined in pencil, with marginal annotation "At 10pm" [unknown contemporary hand]. Light foxing throughout. 14 x 19.5 cm. Original crocus-yellow cloth boards (handling marks and a few creases). Top edges trimmed, others partially trimmed. Cream printed label at head of spine (slightly browned and rubbed). Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) poet and novelist, best known for antiwar poetry, such as The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918). Sassoon conveyed the brutality of war with shocking realism. Twice wounded, he received the Military Cross for bravery, but he wrote of hurling it into the River Mersey. He underwent psychiatric treatment and struggled to settle into civilian life. In his later years, his poetry was increasingly devotional. After the First World War, Sassoon wrote passionate poems and explicit love letters to his first lover, artist Gabriel Atkin (1897-1937) but removed accounts of all his homosexual affairs from his diary. Born William Park Atkin, Gabriel Atkin was born in South Shields, Durham, the son of a builder. Before the War he showed promise as a water-colourist and studied at Armstrong College in Newcastle with tutor Richard George Hatton. In 1914 Atkin enlisted and was based on the south coast. In the summer of 1915 he was sent to Cambridge for officer training. where he got to know a circle of gay men including academics Edward Dent and A. T. 'Theo' Bartholomew (one of Atkins lovers). Although Atkin could be charming he was also prone to drunkenness and riotous behaviour, which caused those around him embarrassment. Friends engaged in matchmaking, encouraging Sassoon to meet Atkin. Sassoon's posting, first to Ireland, then Palestine in the first half of 1918, had intervened and it was not until October 1918 that the subject was reintroduced. By 30 October Atkin was writing to Dent: 'I am most excited by the possibility of meeting Siegfried Sassoon. I think of him as most attractively Byronic in appearance!" Sassoon meeting with Atkin in Margate on 20 November 1918 went well and they immediately fell under each other's spell. They spent that Christmas together at Sassoon's family home at Weirleigh and at Robert Ross's rooms in Half Moon Street in London. Atkin was almost certainly Siegfried Sassoon's first sexual partner. Around then, Sassoon became a minor literary celebrity and got to know & introduce to Atkin a number of well-known people. They met Ronald Firbank throughSacheverell Sitwell & although Sassoon did not find Ronald Firbank's work appealing they met a couple more times because Atkin was a devotee (possibly a lover). They had also got to know some of the Bloomsbury Set including Lytton Strachey, Mark Gertler, Duncan Grant, Osbert Sitwell and the Bloomsbury economist John Maynard Keynes (Atkin was a lover of Sitwell and Keynes). Atkin had a show at the London Salon in 1919. He also sent work to the Artists of the Northern Counties exhibits. Atkin's legendary beauty with his star-distilled eyes [and] pure skin (9 October 1933, Butts's journal) had been such that the sculptor Jacob Epstein (1880-1959) made a cast of him called variously Seraph or Cherubim (in Quentin Bell's words, the toast of British sodom ). In 1920 Atkin was living in a studio flat in Tite Street in Chelsea, London, and Sassoon gave him an allowance of £300 so that he could continue painting. They began to see much less of each other, although Sassoon continued to send money for some years. Gabriel Atkin travelled to France and for a while was a male prostitute in Lyon and then the south of France during this late period of their relationship, 1923.
Seller: Jason Burley, Camden Lock Books, ABA, ILAB & IOBA, London, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room. London: The Hogarth Press, 1922.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing with 14 pages of press opinions. One of 1200 copies. Publisher's crocus-yellow cloth, cream label with titles printed in black to spine, fore and bottom edges untrimmed; in its original cream dust jacket printed in cinnamon and black, designed by Vanessa Bell. Near fine or better book, with light soiling to spine, lightly bumped corners, and light offsetting to endpapers; unclipped dust jacket, with heavy toning to spine, front and rear panels separated at spine, approximately 60% of the spine still present, small piece of spine separated but present, front panel bright and intact except for half of the "V" from "Virginia Woolf" missing, some repair to verso including a diagonal tear across front panel, some edgewear, and a few small chips to front and rear flap folds. Overall, a lovely example, with most of the exceptionally scarce original dust jacket present. Kirkpatrick A6a. Woolmer 26. Jacob's Room traces the life of Jacob Flanders, a man who attends school at Cambridge, travels abroad, and ultimately dies at 26 in World War I. There is very little emphasis on plot in the story, and the reader does not gain access to Jacob's internal life - rather the story is a pastiche of impressions of Jacob from family members, friends, and lovers. It is believed that Woolf was influenced by the death of her brother Thoby at the age of 26 in writing the book. Woolf's third novel, Jacob's Room is the first book in which Woolf exhibits the experimental and psychological style that she would go on to use so masterfully in her classic novels like Mrs. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse. Woolf published Jacob's Room in 1922, the year that, according to Willa Cather, the "world broke in two" due to the seismic changes taking place in the world of literature. A watershed year for modernism, it was also the year that James Joyce published Ulysses and T. S. Eliot published The Wasteland. Notably, Jacob's Room was the first novel published by Hogarth Press, and the first Hogarth Press book to be published with a dust jacket. The dust jacket was made collaboratively - Vanessa Bell provided the drawing, Virginia chose the coloring, and Leonard Woolf helped design the lettering.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room. Hogarth Press, 1922.
Price: US$9000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. An attractive copy with minor rubbing to the spine and panels. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight with minor wear to the spine and edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. We buy Virginia Woolf First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$35000.00 + shipping
Description: 290 + 14 pp. [ads] 8vo, publisher's gold cloth with printed paper label on spine, in dust jacket after a design by Vanessa Bell. First edition. Endsheets very slightly tanned at hinges; slight bump to fore-edge of front board; else bright and fresh with the paper label very white. Closed tear to front flap fold; backstrip slightly sunned, with light use to extremities and some hand-soiling to the rear panel. A very attractive example of an extremely scarce book in dust jacket.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$41689.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, a superb literary association copy from among the 40 "A" subscribers' copies, with the part-printed limitation label to the front free endpaper completed in ink by Virginia Woolf and signed by her, this copy for the novelist Rebecca West (1892-1983). West's nuanced review of Jacob's Room, Woolf's first full novel published by the Hogarth Press, appeared in the New Statesman a month after she received her copy: "[Woolf] has again provided us with a demonstration that she is at once a negligible novelist and a supremely important writer." Woolf, in return, likened West's novel The Return of the Soldier to an "overly stuffed sausage". The 40 recipients of the signed subscriber copies were usually either financial backers, or close Bloomsbury friends of Woolf; West was neither, and her receipt of this is a marked sign of Woolf's regard for her fellow novelist. By the time Orlando was published, West was converted, lauding it as "a poetic masterpiece of the first rank". These copies were issued in advance of the trade publication and were not issued in dust jacket; they were given to the active subscribers who had supported the press's early publications. Kirkpatrick A6a; Woolmer 26. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, white paper title label to spine printed in black. Housed in a white cloth slipcase and chemise. A little toned to spine but still an unusually fresh copy, some light foxing to endpapers and edges, small hole to front free endpaper near gutter (likely production fault), sound and smart, very good condition indeed.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom