WOOLF, Virginia. STEPHEN VERSUS GLADSTONE. Headington Quarry, [Headington, Oxfordshire], 1967.

Price: US$348.00 + shipping

Description: Royal octavo, single quire hand-sewn into printed mulberry wrappers. Bookplate of the noted Virginia Woolf/Hogarth Press collector William Beekman affixed to the verso of the upper panel. Text consists of a letter written by Leslie Stephen to C. E. Norton, dated 7 December 1892, relating to his being elected President of the London Library over the candidacy of Mr. Gladstone, taken from Frederic W. Maitland, The Life and Letters of Leslie Stephen, 1906, and a related news article written by "Virginia Stephen (aged 10)" for the Stephen children's sporadically produced family newspaper, "The Hyde Park Gate News, vol. ii, no.45, Monday, 21 November 1892." Fine, in protective acetate dust jacket. First edition, limited, as the colophon states, to "[f]ifty copies printed by Will and Sebastian Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge №. 11." None of the copies was offered for sale. Inscribed and signed on the first free endsheet, "Leon Edel, scholar-student of Virginia Woolf, this first chip from Headington Quarry, with affection. Gay Head, September 1967. Simon Nowell-Smith." Nowell-Smith (1909-96) was a book collector, librarian, and writer who wrote, notably among others, "The Legend of the Master: Henry James As Others Saw Him,"(1947); the recipient of this pamphlet, Edel, had written a bibliography of James and was to go on to write a five-part biography of James. A fine association copy. KIRKPATRICK A40.

Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

WOOLF VIRGINIA. STEPHEN VERSUS GLADSTONE (LIMITED EDITION). HEADINGTON QUARRY, 1967.

Price: US$372.00 + shipping

Description: PAPER COVERS, TITLE PAGE PLUS THREE PAGES. PRIVATELY PRINTED BY WILL AND SEBASTIAN CARTER AT THE RAMPANT LIONS PRESS. LIMITED TO 50 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 6. PRESENTATION COPY FROM SIMON NOWELL SMITH TO JOHN CARTER. VERY GOOD. VERY SCARCE.

Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom