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Woolf, Virginia. THE MARK ON THE WALL. Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1919.
Price: US$575.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 2nd edition, 1919. A Good+ copy. 8vo., 10 pp., bound in publishers tan stiff wraps. Cover title, not title page as published. Wraps are lightly soiled and faded with some very minor rubbing and chipping at edges. Scattered light foxing and toning to paper. While marked second edition, this is actually the first separate edition, having previously appears in Two Stories published jointly with her husband in 1917.
Seller: Frey Fine Books, Rougemont, NC, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1919.
Price: US$644.13 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second edition on front cover but first separate edition. Cream paper binding. 10 pp. Previous owner's signature on inside cover. Some foxing throughout with a couple of light grease or liquid stains on rear cover. Front cover Very Good condition but must be graded "Good" condition overall. Very scarce
Seller: Alexander's Books, Royal Leamington Spa, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. The Hogarth Press / Pelican Press, 1919.
Price: US$681.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition, first separate edition (Kirkpatrick A2b). One of 1000 copies. Wrappers a bit toned, two tiny creases to top fore edge corner. 1919 Stapled Binding. 10 pp. A short work 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. " It was not recognized that the ordeal of consciousness, as developed by George Eliot and Henry James, was Virginia Woolf's starting point for the novel of the future where, as she put it in 'The Mark on the Wall' (1917), her plan was to follow the mental track of 'modest mouse-coloured people ? Those are the depths [novelists] will explore, those the phantoms they will pursue, leaving the description of reality more and more out of their stories.' She discards the pretensions of the great soul for a nondescript old woman in a third-class carriage or a housewife ordering the fish, and relocates the Romantic drama, the awakening to a moment of sublimity, in the domestic scene. This is the source of Virginia Woolf's continuing appeal for most readers: her repeated demonstration that the most humdrum domestic actions, knitting a brown stocking, or dishing out the boeuf en daube, or sewing a dress for a party, can stir moments of inward enlargement, just as a mark on the wall sends the writer's thoughts racing on different tracks, on the history of the house and its occupants or the question of death and after." (Oxford Dictionary of National Biography)
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
VIRGINIA WOOLF.. The Mark on the Wall. A story.. Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1919.
Price: US$708.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first separate edition (erroneously marked 'second edition' on the upper wrapper). Slim 8vo. 10pp. Originally issued in thin off-white paper wrappers, this copy has been bound into red cloth with a gilt lettered and bordered leather spine label, retaining the original wrappers. The tips of two corners very gently bumped. The front wrapper lightly marked and soiled, with some light spotting to the leaf margins and to one blank concluding leaf, and with a crease to the rear wrapper. A very good copy. Woolf's ten-page story was first printed in the very first Hogarth Press publication, Two Stories (1917), a hand-printed production limited to just 150 copies, where it appeared alongside Leonard Woolf's story 'Three Jews'. This separate edition, its second appearance in print, followed nearly two years later, and the story was subsequently revised and collected in 'Monday or Tuesday' (1921) and 'A Haunted House' (1944). 1,000 copies were printed, but its somewhat ephemeral nature makes it really quite scarce. Kirkpatrick A2b / Woolmer 8.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. Hogarth Press, 1919.
Price: US$725.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First separate printing (covers reads "second edition"; June, 1919). Octavo. Original stiff printed tan wrappers stamped in black. No dust jacket. "Made in England" faintly rubber stamped on the back cover. Very good (no foxing; short tear at head of spine fold). 10 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Small "The Holiday Bookshop, New York City" label at end. One of 1,000 copies (?) Kirkpatrick A2b. Woolmer #8. Printed at The Pelican Press, 2 Carmelite Street, E.C.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Mark on the Wall.. Richmond. Hogarth Press, 1919.
Price: US$907.50 + shipping
Description: 'Second edition' [first separate edition of this story]; 8vo; typical foxing throughout as usual, some minor creasing, publisher's buff wrappers printed in black, a trifle marked and very slightly nicked at the edges, staples at some point probably renewed. A very good copy. Woolf's story was her contribution to the Hogarth Press's inaugural publication, Two Stories (1917). The edition sold out and in 1919 she had 1000 copies of her piece printed under its own title. Kirkpatrick records this printing as A2b. Kirkpatrick A2b; Woolmer 8.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. The Mark on the Wall. Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1919.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: White wraps. The Mark on the Wall is the first published story by Virginia Woolf. This ÒSecond editionÓ is actually the first separate edition (covers reads "second edition"; June, 1919) having previously appeared in Two Stories, published jointly with husband Leonard Woolf. Soft cover. Original stiff printed tan wrappers (no foxing), stamped in black. No signatures or bookplates. Very good.
Seller: Sam Barcelo, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
WOOLF Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. , 1919.
Price: US$1223.85 + shipping
Description: First separate edition. 8vo., original off-white stapled wrappers, lettered in black. London, printed by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. The first separate printing of this short story. Initially published in Two Stories alongside Leonard Woolf?s ?Three Jews? in a run of 150, being the first book printed by the Hogarth Press. The little book took the Woolfs two and a half months to prepare, with Virginia painstakingly typesetting and binding in delicate and beautiful paper, and Leonard printing. By the time of this publication, the press had already been through a long line of ?tortured assistants?, becoming in the process more a business interest than a hobby. This run was printed in 1000 copies. Staples rusting, very slightly nicked at the edges, otherwise an excellent copy. Kirkpatrick A2b.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1919.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Original printed wrappers, fine. Cloth case. The story had previously appeared in "Two Stories," 1917. Kirkpatrick A2b; Woolmer 8. Second edition and first separate edition, one of 1000 copies.
Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1919.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First separate edition, stating "Second Edition" on front cover. Octavo. 10pp. Stapled printed wrappers. Fragile printed wrappers lightly toned, faint crease on rear wrap, near fine in a custom cloth clamshell case. Although this publication states "Second Edition" on the front cover, it is in fact the first separate printing of this Virginia Woolf story; the only previous publication of the story was in the first publication of the Hogarth Press, *Two Stories,* which also printed Leonard Woolf's story *Three Jews,* issued in an edition of 150 copies. An early Hogarth Press publication limited to 1000 copies. Kirkpatrick A2b. Woolmer No. 8.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Mark on the Wall. Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1919.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: "Second Edition". First separate edition, originally published in Two Stories, July 1917. 10 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Kirkpatrick A2b; Woolmer 8; Rhein, pp. 11,13 Printed wrappers. Short tear at head of spine fold, some browning on upper cover, a bit of foxing throughout. Very good "Second Edition". First separate edition, originally published in Two Stories, July 1917.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Mark on the Wall.. Richmond: The Hogarth Press, 1919, 1919.
Price: US$1610.33 + shipping
Description: First separate edition, second overall, one of 1,000 copies printed. "The Mark on the Wall" was first published alongside Leonard Woolf's "Three Jews" in The Hogarth Press's debut publication, Two Stories. This edition incorporates Woolf's slight editorial changes. Woolmer 8; Kirkpatrick A2b. Octavo, pp. 10. Original wire-stitched off-white wrappers, front lettered in black. Lightly creased, spine ends a little nicked, a hint of foxing to contents. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom