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Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry: A Biography.. London: Hogarth Press, 1940., 1940.
Price: US$21.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second impression hard cover book in good- condition. No dust jacket. Extensive fading to edges of boards and to spine. Mottling, foxing and grubby marks to spine. Foxing and browning to front and rear endpapers. Pages heavily tanned throughout. 8vo. 307pp.
Seller: Salopian Books, Shrewsbury, SAL, United Kingdom
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green Cl. Good/No Jacket. 2nd Impression. 8vo. pp 307, ind.
Seller: Muse Book Shop, DeLand, FL, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry: A Biography. The Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good condition third impression hardcover (no dust jacket), published in November 1940. Boards are faded and worn, and edges, corners and spine ends are bumped and rubbed. Spine is sunned with a crease along the length of it. Page block and page edges are tanned, and previous owner's name penned to FEP. Pages are otherwise clear and binding is sound. LW
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry. Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$50.24 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Third impression of first edition. Covers very faded. ffep torn out. Self portrait of Fry as frontice piece plus other pictures.
Seller: Valuable Volumes, Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia.. Roger Fry - A Biography.. The Hogarth Press. London, 1940.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Description: pp. 307, (i). Frontispiece and 15 plates [17 illustrations]. Publisher's cloth much faded, joints good, text clean.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. Roger Fry; A Biography. The Hogarth Press, London., 1940.
Price: US$64.41 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Roger Fry; A Biography, by Virginia Woolf. Biography of the English painter and art critic, Roger Fry (1866-1934), who was a hugely influential figure in the British art world. Published by The Hogarth Press, London. 1940 first edition, first impression. A good cloth hardback with gilt title to spine. Covers are heavily sunned. The original green is much faded and is now brown to the spine. Covers bumped, scuffed and rubbed with fraying to head and tail of spine Text is generally still bright and clean throughout, with mild spotting to endpapers and offsetting to half title. Some mild age toning to paper stock. With portrait frontispiece at front and a 16 plates, including frontispiece (as called for). Imperfect, but an uncommon first impression of this biography. Text in English. 307pp + 16pp Plates. Weight approximately 540g (unpacked). Approx Dimensions: 221mm high x 145mm wide x 34mm deep. More photos on request.
Seller: Lanna Antique, Perth, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. Roger Fry: A Biography. Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Has small bookplate and former ownership signature of socialite Josephine B. Crane, Sugar Hill, Dalton, Mass. Binding is sunned; spine has white spotting, small stain at bottom and its tips are chipped; half-title page and verso of final page have acidic browning; endpapers have foxing; corners bumped and worn; three leaves at back have wear in bottom margins. 307 p., with 16 p. of plates, all present and accounted for. Interesting provenance [otob: 24]
Seller: Katsumi-san Co., Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$90.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Index. Illustrated. Green boards with gold lettering to spine are very good with a few small marks (largest to front), minor pushing/bumping to corners, patchy fading (including to spine), the odd small bump/rub to edges, a little foxing to spine, a few small rubs and a little wear (pushing/rubbing/bumping) to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages bit tanned. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Half-title page very tanned. Occasional small marks/scattered foxing to pages (especially to back end-paper). No other faults. A nice copy. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia. Roger Fry. A Biography. London: The Hogarth Press, 1940.
Price: US$96.62 + shipping
Description: Second impression. 8vo. 307, (1) pp. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, dust jacket. Frontispiece self portrait plus 17 photographic plates, some two to a page. Jacket worn with losses, else very good. The first printing appeared the previous month.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry (UK HB 1st - 1940). Hogarth Press, 1940.
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: UK hardback first impression. Uncommon thus. Good overall with fade to spine cloth and some rubbing to corner tips. No jacket.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry: A Biography. The Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$103.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Pages clean and bright, inscription on front endpaper, foxing on half-title page, light spotting on endpapers and title page, light shelf wear to boards but otherwise neat. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$115.94 + shipping
Description: LONDON : 1940. [ First published in the previous month; July. There were around 1,000 copies of this August printing.]. Hardback. Illustrated; 16pp plates. Original green cloth; gilt lettered spine. In white pictorial dust-jacket. No owner name or internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. A couple of neat repairs to jacket; clean and bright. VERY GOOD INDEED in VG jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. 307 pages. Index. Kirkpatrick; Bibliography of Virginia Woolf A25a. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ] SCARCE.
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry. A Biography. The Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$116.33 + shipping
Description: 220mm x 140mm (9" x 6"). 307pp + plates. 16 b/w plates. With rubbed and chipped dust jacket. 2nd impression jacket. G: in good condition. Slight foxing
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia. Roger Fry. A Biography. Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$134.36 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London, Hogarth Press, August 1940 (second impression)/ July 1940. Octavo, 307 pages plus 16 plates. Cloth lettered in gilt on the spine (sunned, and a little rubbed and marked); half-title and last page (a blank) unevenly offset, with the text paper uniformly lightly tanned; a very good copy with the dustwrapper slightly marked and torn, and chipped at the foot of the spine. See Kirkpatrick ('A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf') A25a. The first impression was 'Published 25 July 1940; 2530 copies printed. 12s. 6d. There was a second impression of 1130 copies in August 1940 and a third of 1010 in November 1940'.
Seller: Michael Treloar Booksellers ANZAAB/ILAB, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition. 8vo. 307 pp. A near fine copy in dustwrapper, showing light overall use with minor rubbing at the heel and crown of the spine and edges. Previous owner's discreet initials, dated 1941, on ffe. Woolf, introduced to Fry (founder of the Omega Workshops) in 1911 by her sister Vanessa Bell, when requested to write Fry's biography, was justifiably hesitant, aware that she could not authoritatively amplify upon Fry's artistic beliefs or reveal his love affair with Vanessa. A pleasing copy of a scarce title. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A25b.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
WOOLF, Virginia.. Roger Fry: A Biography.. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$193.24 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing, a photo-offset of the British sheets as first published in London earlier the same year. Woolf wrote this biography of Roger Fry, the English painter and fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group, at the request of his family. This copy has the bookplate of William Beekman; much of his excellent Bloomsbury Group and Hogarth Press collection now forms part of the Berg Collection at the New York Public Library. Kirkpatrick A25b. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 15 plates. Sunning to upper edges of cloth, couple of marks to book block edges, contents clean. A very good copy in like dust jacket, unclipped, couple of nicks, rubbing to spine panel ends, green offsetting from cloth to rear panel, flaps, and verso, spine and front panels bright.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$335.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hogarth Press. London. 1940. 307 pages. First edition, first printing stated. Book is tight; binding and hinges are strong and sound. Green cloth gilt-stamped on spine. Cloth is bright and clean. Sunning along top edge and backstrip. Toning to FFEP & RFEP. Pages and pastedowns are bright and clean. A couple of minor faint marks to page edges. Light shelf-rubbing along edges. A nice copy. Roger Fry, a celebrated English painter, was a member of the Bloomsbury Group; an intimate group of friends made up of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists. Members included Roger Fry among Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf. Most of the group was loosely associated with the University of Cambridge/King's College. Of note, Roger Fry had a well-publicized affair with Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister. Upon Fry's unexpected death in 1934, Virgina Woolf wrote this intimate biography of her dear friend. This biography was published July 1940 to mixed critical reviews, sending Woolf into a depression; nine months later she would take her own life. This is the last book published in Virginia Woolf's lifetime. A solid, tight, first edition, first printing. VG+ with flaws noted.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry: A Biography. The Hogarth Press 1940, London, 1940.
Price: US$450.89 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. 307 pp. Recent quarter dark green morocco over green cloth boards with raised bands, gilt lettering and devices to spine. Externally fine and bright. Minor spots to page edges, but internally very clean. Black & white illustrations. The last book Virginia Woolf published in her lifetime about artist, and fellow Bloomsbury Group member Roger Fry. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia.. Roger Fry - A Biography.. The Hogarth Press, London., 1940.
Price: US$611.92 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 307 pages. Foreword by Margery Fry. Illustrations.A bit of spotting here and there. Spine faded. Free endpapers partially tanned. Very good in very good, marked and nicked dustwrapper reinforced on the reverse in a few places.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry: A Biography. Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$715.00 + shipping
Description: This is the last book published in Virginia Woolf's lifetime. First edition, first printing in its original uncommon dj. Dj has 12s. 6d. net price on dj spine and on front flap. Green cloth covers, gilt tile on spine, 307pp, spine tips sunned, rear hinge cracked. Dj in G- condition influenced by the presence of tape running down the front hinge. Internally clean.
Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia.. Roger Fry: A Biography.. London: The Hogarth Press, 1940, 1940.
Price: US$1256.06 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the author's sole book-length biography, the last of her books she lived to see published, written at the request of the family of the famous painter and member of the Bloomsbury group. Kirkpatrick A25. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Portrait frontispiece and 15 plates. Spine and upper edges of cloth faded to blue, spine ends sunned, half-title and blank verso of final page browned, mild toning to margins, else clean. A very good copy in like dust jacket, unclipped, light splash marks on spine, soiling to rear panel, couple of chips and closed tears, remaining sound.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hogarth Press. London. 1940. 307 pages. First edition, first printing stated. Book is tight; binding and hinges are strong and sound. Green cloth gilt-stamped on spine. Sunning on heel and crown. Minimal faint toning to endpapers. Original, uncommon DJ with 12s. 6d. net price on DJ spine and on front flap. Later DJs removed price on spine to denote a later printing. DJ shows chipping at foot and crown; and on lower front corners. Roger Fry, a celebrated English painter, was a member of the Bloomsbury Group; an intimate group of friends made up of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists. Members included Roger Fry among Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf. Most of the group was loosely associated with the University of Cambridge/King's College. Of note, Roger Fry had a well-publicized affair with Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister. Upon Fry's unexpected death in 1934, Virgina Woolf wrote this intimate biography of her dear friend. This biography was published July 1940 to mixed critical reviews, sending Woolf into a depression; nine months later she would take her own life. This is the last book published in Virginia Woolf's lifetime. First edition, first printing in its original uncommon DJ. VG+/VG-
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry. The Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$1417.09 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First UK printing published by The Hogarth Press, London in 1940. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with just a little lightening of the spine but far less than usually encountered. A slither of fading to the extreme upper spine tip reproducing the slither of loss to the wrapper. The gilt titling remains very bright. Some light toning to the text-block and outer page edges due to the quality of paper stock used. Light offsetting to the blank end-papers. Free from inscriptions. The fragile WRAPPER is in Very Good++ or better condition. It is lightly dust marked to the rear panel with a few minor markings to the spine panel. A small amount of loss to the spine head. A few nicks and light creasing to the edges with a small area of tape reinforcement to the verso of the front panel edge. There is only a hint of toning to the spine. The wrapper presents as a very sharp example in the removable Brodart archival cover, with the design reproducing Vanessa Bell's portrait of Fry. Only 2,530 copies were printed (Kirkpatrick A25). With a self-portrait frontispiece, seventeen photographs and reproductions and a brief foreword in the form of a letter from Margery Fry to Virginia Woolf. An increasingly elusive title to find in collectible condition. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia. Roger Fry: A Biography. The Hogarth Press, London, 1940.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Very slight sunning at the spine ends else fine in a good dustwrapper that has restoration at the spine ends, and a triangular section on the rear panel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia.. Roger Fry. A Biography.. London The Hogarth Press, 1940.
Price: US$1512.50 + shipping
Description: First edition; 8vo; portrait frontispiece, a further 15 black and white plates; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, spine ends sunned, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket by Vanessa Bell, slight loss to head of spine, small tears and creasing to extremities, historic repair to revers of top edge, mild soiling, else a very good example. misc23 An unusually well-preserved copy of the author's sole book-length biography, written at the request of the family of the famous painter and member of the Bloomsbury group following his unexpected death in 1934. This is the last of Virginia Woolf's books published in her lifetime. Kirkpatrick A25a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. ROGER FRY. A Biography. MacMillan, Toronto, 1940.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf, Virginia. ROGER FRY. A Biography. Toronto: Macmillan, 1940. First Canadian Edition printed from the British sheets, in the same year of publication as the Hogarth Press first edition. 8vo. 307 pp. An excellent copy in green cloth, gilt titles to the spine, in a bright, fresh pictorial dustwrapper (some professional archival restoration to the crown of the spine), portraying a self-portrait by Roger Fry. Black and white frontis Roger Fry, A Self-Portrait. Only 525 cc. published in the Canadian First Edition. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A25bb. Woolmer 475. Definitively for the completist and rarely found in any sort of dustwrapper.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$7795.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hogarth Press. London. 1940. 307 pages. First edition, first printing stated. Signed by Virginia Woolf on the title page. Book is tight; binding and hinges are strong and sound. Green cloth gilt-stamped on spine. Sunning along panel edges and backstrip. Vintage bookplate neatly trimmed and pasted to front pastedown underneath DJ flap. Toning to front endpaper; bright and clean throughout. Light shelf-rubbing along edges. Original, uncommon DJ with 12s. 6d. net price on DJ spine and on front flap. Later DJs would remove the price from spine to instead designate a later printing. Attractive DJ shows minor shallow edge chipping. Rear of DJ shows light minor soiling. Small open chip at rear shoulder. Closed tear on upper rear edge of DJ. Roger Fry, a celebrated English painter, was a member of the Bloomsbury Group; an intimate collection of friends made up of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists. Members included Roger Fry among Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf. Most of the group was loosely associated with the University of Cambridge/King's College. Of note, Fry had a well-publicized affair with Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister. Upon Roger Fry's unexpected death in 1934, Virgina Woolf penned this intimate biography of her dear friend. This biography was published July 1940 to mixed critical reviews, sending Woolf into a depression; nine months later she would take her own life. This is the last book published in Virginia Woolf's lifetime. First edition, first printing in original DJ, signed. A rare plum for any serious book collector.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.