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Price: US$7.62 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: boards are edge worn. foxing. a few inscriptions. text remains clear and legible. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1953; orange cloth covered boards with gold titles; wear and discoloration around edges; spine plate has a 6" tear on one side, but is present; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; Interior is clean and unmarked; 372 pages. from the collection of John Shy, Professor at University of Michigan
Seller: A Squared Books (Don Dewhirst), South Lyon, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.16 + shipping
Description: A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf, Woolf, Virginia; Leonard Woolf (Editor). Published by The Hogarth Press, London, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 372 pp. with chronological bibliography of the books of Virginia Woolf, index of books by Virginia Woolf, general index and, glossary of names used in the diary. Orange cloth boards with gilt spine titles, orange top edge. Contents in unmarked condition; rubbing to spine edges; hinges slightly weak. Lacks dustjacket.
Seller: Back Lane Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: (DDD1) dj is very worn on edges and ripped on top spine; marks also; and ripped on edges; orange boards faded and foxed; fore edges foxed; fep and ffep too; previous owner message on ffep; clean throughout; photographs upon request
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. Octavo. x, 372pp. Original orange cloth with gilt spine titles. Slight wear, dulling to gilt and slight lean, slight spotting to endpapers with one edge tear, otherwise near very good indeed. No jacket.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. A Writer's Diary. The Hogarth Press, London, 1953.
Price: US$38.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Moderate shelf wear to cover. Rubbing/light fraying to edges of spine. Spine faded. No jacket. Previous owners inscription on front end page. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange hardcover with gilt titles on spine. Flyleaf missing. Dust jacket has piece missing from spine, now in brodart cover. No markings in this book. Print is bright and clean. (v-x) contains the Glossary of Names used in the diary, 372 pp. including Chronological Bibliography of the Books of Virginia Woolf, Index of Books by Virginia Woolf and a General Index.
Seller: George Strange's Bookmart, Brandon, MB, Canada
Price: US$128.83 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. x, 372, 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, cloth a little marked, top edge salmon-pink, clipping of Angus Wilson's review in The Observer loosely inserted, good. With the ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles): she an artist, friend of Carrington from the Slade, and on the fringes of the Bloomsbury Group - including as the sometime-partner of David Garnett, Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney Turner, and J.M. Keynes (all of whom mentioned at various points in the text).
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. A Writer's Diary. The Hogarth Press, London, 1953.
Price: US$255.73 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Edited by Leonard Woolf, cover design by Vanessa Bell, 1st printing, not price clipped (18s net), no owner's name or other inscription, page ends age toned (text unaffected), some discolouration at head and base of spine, bound in salmon coloured cloth with gilt lettering. D/j appears grubby and although complete has some loss to extremities. D/j spine tanned with some tears to spine sides. D/j now protected by a clear removable sleeve.
Seller: MHO - Collectors' Books, Fittleworth, Pulborough, United Kingdom
Price: US$277.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. x, 372. index. cloth. dw. (some discolouration to dw & tears to edges). First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$309.18 + shipping
Description: A collection of the thoughts of Virginia Woolf on writing and creativity, edited by her husband, Leonard Woolf, from her diaries which she kept from 1914 until just before her death in 1941. Dustjacket designed by Vanessa Bell, the author's sister. Pp. x, 372. Bound in orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. octavo. Book in very good condition, cloth and pages clean, gilt bright and textblock firm, lightly bumped to top edge of back board. Dustjacket condition: some chips to the corners and edges of the spine, toning to the spine and some watermarks and possible foxing, still presentable, good condition, not price clipped (18s net).
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$322.07 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First impression of the true edition. ***Near fine in orange cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are beautifully clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper. There is slight creasing to the top and tail of the spine, and top edge of front board near the spine. Top corner of front board slightly creased - corners otherwise sharp. Top edge of page block stained burnt-orange by the publisher to match the boards - still clean and unfaded. Edges of boards just slightly rubbed. Spine unfaded. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions - just light offsetting to the endpapers, and a small contemporaneous bookseller's label on the front pastedown. No foxing. Pages clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, designed by Virginia Woolf's artist sister Vanessa Bell. The dustwrapper is virtually complete, with just small areas of loss at the top and tail of the spine and very slight wear at the corner tips of the foldovers. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 18s. net. There are some marks to the cream areas of the dustwrapper, commensurate with age and handling, and slight browning to the spine, but no fading to the orange colours. No serious creases, chips or tears. Dustwrapper bright. ***372 pages including an Index at the back. 228mm x 148mm. ***'In 1915 Virginia Woolf started to keep a regular diary, and continued to do so till a few days before her death in 1941. For the present volume, Leonard Woolf has extracted from the diaries almost every passage which refers to Virginia Woolf's own writing, together with other passages which indirectly throw light on her creative and critical methods and powers. Since Virginia Woolf constantly used the diaries to discuss with herself the problems of her art, this book gives us a very remarkable insight into the mind and method of one who, in Professor Blackstone's phrase, "did supremely well what no one else has attempted to do." ***"A Writer's Diary" is not merely of technical literary interest: it reveals to us the extraordinary patience and energy, the concentration and integrity which go to the making of works of art. It also contains brilliant descriptions and remarkable portraits of famous and obscure persons.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition, which is now very hard to find complete in the original Vanessa Bell illustrated dustwrapper. The dustwrappers were printed on very thin paper, and very few have survived the last 70 years in such an intact state. A lovely copy. ***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
WOOLF, Virginia. A WRITER'S DIARY. Hogarth Press, London, 1953.
Price: US$354.27 + shipping
Description: First Edition, first printing. 8vo. pp x + 372. Original orange cloth boards, with the orange and black 'Bloomsbury' dust-jacket designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell. Wrapper is not price-clipped but the spine is browned and there is a small amount of loss at the head and tail. Other than that, condition of book both and jacket is excellent, with two former owner's neat inscriptions to first free endpaper (author Justin Wintle and 'Olivia Ellis', both dated. Top edge of text block stained orange, to match the cloth. Internally clean, no foxing or offsetting, and text block is tight and square. Pages clean. No reading lean to the binding. A VG+ copy all round. Virginia Woolf left behind her twenty-six volume diary, started in 1915, following death by her own hand in 1941. Her husband, Leonard, distilled from it "everything which referred to her own writing", thus providing "an unusual psychological picture of artistic production from within". In this way. the journal gives for twenty-seven years a consecutive record of what she did, the people she saw, and particularly of what she thought about those people, about herself, about life, and about the books she was writing or hoped to write.
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bound in orange cloth with gilt lettering. Pictorial dust jacket sunned and lightly bumped. Clean interior. Compiled by her husband after her passing, this volume gives insight into the mind, writing exercises, and readings of the famous English author. Size: Octavo
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Orange cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. x,371[1]pp. 8 ¾ x 5 ½. Vanessa Bell dust jacket. Chronological bibliography and an index. Some offsetting from the wraps to free endpapers, spine lightly sunned, else a very good or better copy in an unclipped, white dust jacket printed in orange and black, toned at edges, sunned at spine. Formerly in 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. First edition, first printing. Edited by Leonard Woolf, who explains in the preface it was his hope to extract and distill entries culled from 26 volumes of diaries that related to her own writing, and indeed, the writing process and life as she lived it. While she began keeping diaries in 1915, this edition contains excerpts from August 1918 where, in referring to Katherine Mansfield, Woolf writes, "I threw down BLISS with the exclamation, 'She's done for!' . I shall have to accept the fact, I am afraid, that her mind is very thin soil, laid an inch or two deep upon very barren rock," to Sunday, March 8, 1941, "Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down." . KIRKPATRICK A31a.
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$483.10 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of this memoir of life in China written with the encouragement of Virginia Woolf. The author began corresponding with her in the late 1930s and sent her drafts of Ancient Melodies. Woolf was full of praise, urging Ling to write "as close to the Chinese both in style and in meaning as you can" (p. 8). Ling Shuhua (1904-1990), an artist and accomplished short story writer who has been called "China's Katherine Mansfield", met Julian Bell in 1935 while he was teaching English in China. It was through this connection that she first made contact with Woolf. Ling and Bell's romantic relationship is fictionalized in Hong Ying's banned novel K: The Art of Love (1999), later reworked as The English Lover (2003). In her introduction, Vita Sackville-West describes the correspondence between Woolf and Ling, praising the latter as "blessed, or cursed, according to the way you look at it, with the soul and eye of an artist and a poet. [Ling] seems, living in London now, to bring with her the flavour of a forgotten world in which the desire for the good life of peaceable contemplation and exquisite thoughts was axiomatic" (p. 9). Sackville-West concludes with a quotation from a poem by Bai Juyi, as translated by Arthur Waley. Waley's translation of The Tale of Genji (1925-1926) "was responsible for changing substantially the views of Virginia Woolf toward oriental literature" (Henig, p. 76). Several years later, Woolf acknowledged her literary debts to Waley in the preface to Orlando (1928). Suzanne Henig, "The Bloomsbury Group and Non-Western Literature", Journal of South Asian Literature, vol. 10, no. 1, 1974. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With pictorial dust jacket. With 7 illustrations in text after pen-and-ink drawings by the author. With the bookplate of Carmen Blomfield, perhaps the minor Australian poet (1921-2018), on the half-title. Spine only lightly sunned with slight lean, extremities rubbed, text clean; jacket with losses at spine ends and folds, old inexpert brown paper repairs on verso, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$579.72 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. x, 372, 8vo, original orange cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, small stain at head of lower board, top edge orange with a few spots to fore-edge and free endpapers, armorial bookplate of David Garnett to front pastedown (see below), dustjacket with a design by Vanessa Bell, a little chipped at ends of browned backstrip panel, very good. The copy of author and fellow member of the Bloomsbury Group, David Garnett - mentioned (as 'Bunny') by Woolf in the entry for October 17th, 1922. (Kirkpatrick A31a
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$772.96 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by The Hogarth Press in 1953. A fine book without inscriptions, in a very good+ unclipped wrapper with some light loss to the spine tips. Some browning to the spine. Complete with the rare wrap-around band. Rare with the band
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. A Writer Diary. hogarth press, LONDON, 1953.
Price: US$840.27 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A lovely copy of this first edition, the dust jacket designed by Virginia`s sister Vanessa Bell is a little age toned and a little edgeworn along the top of the spine and rear panel, not price clipped and has the very rare wrap around yellow band stating recommended by the book society,now all in a removable sleeve, gift inscription in pen on the front endpaper some faint slight foxing to eps and title page. A very good clean scarce copy.
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Price: US$1325.87 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Original cloth with unclipped dust jacket, x, 372 pp., dust jacket at top and bottom with very small loss, spine of dustjacket browned, rear flap of dustjacket with few small spots, endpapers and edges slightly foxed, also the first few pages, otherwise very good condition. Signed by Leonard Woolf on the title page and quite scarce as such, we do not find any auction record for such an autographed copy. First edition. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 1050
Seller: Books and Beaches, Anna Bechteler, Icking, Germany
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Description: Uncorrected proof. Edited by Leonard Woolf. Unprinted red wrappers. Spine a little sunned, and top corner a little bumped, still near fine. Scarce in this format.
Seller: Biblioctopus, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition Uncorrected Proof. Original Wraps. Hogarth Press Uncorrected Proof in unprinted mottled orange wraps with original slipcase. Edited by Leonard Woolf. "If Virginia Woolf at the age of 50, when she sits down to build her memoirs out of these books, is unable to make a phrase as it should be made, I can only condole with her and remind her of the existence of the fireplace, where she has my leave to burn these pages to so many black films with red eyes in them. But how I envy her the task I am preparing for her!" - Virginia Woolf. Diaries. Kirkpatrick And Clarke A31b. Near fine. The slipcase with the usual wear and tear and sunning. Very rare and hard to find.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Uncorrected proof. Edited by Leonard Woolf. Unprinted red wrappers. Spine a little sunned, and top corner a little bumped, still near fine. Scarce in this format.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$3220.66 + shipping
Description: [Modern literature] UNCORRECTED PROOF. Octavo (23 x 15cm), pp.372. Publisher's mottled orange wraps printed in black to upper cover, dust-wrapper designed by Vanessa Bell, price at 18s. Book is fine; jacket near fine with minor toning to spine and a little creasing to joint. Shows extremely well. A scarce proof; more commonly found in plain/unprinted wrappers.
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Price: US$3550.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Signed by Leonard Woolf. First Edition. Signed. A WRITER'S DIARY. Signed & Dated by Leonard Woolf: The Hogarth Press, London, 1953. First Edition. 8vo., 312pp. Edited, with a preface by Leonard Woolf. Inscribed on the ffe.: "Though actually the gift of Patrick Pritchard, I ventured to sign it as an editorial offering to Iris Birtwistle Leonard Woolf, Christmas. 1953". Presumably one of his house copies in orange cloth, gilt titles to the spine that he gave as a gift. Also included in the book is a postcard addressed to Miss Birtwistle dated January 26, 1954 from Mrs. Patrick Pritchard from Surrey: "Have you seen page 346 of V. Woolf's book - 10th line form the bottom refers to Dee?" [That page talks about the recent bombings in London and mentions Patrick Pritchard and others.] Iris Mary Birtwistle was a poet and gallery owner. George Pritchard was a solicitor who, as the story goes gave the collection of letters he kept at home by Virginia Woolf, Leonard Woolf, Leslie Stephen, Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes letters and others to his son Patrick Prichard, who passed them on to his wife who later sold them all to a dealer in New York City which caused some unpleasant controversy about their provenance according to Leonard Woolf's biography. A WRITER'S DIARY Reveals glimpses of Virginia Woolf & essential for an understanding of her writing methods & how her thought process influenced her life & relationships. It was not until Woolf's full Diaries were published that they were recognized, with her letters as companion, as her literary masterpieces. Virginia Woolf kept her diaries from 1915 until her death in 1941. Her husband, Leonard Woolf, notes in his preface that her "diary gives for 27 years a consecutive record of what she did, of the people whom she saw and particularly of what she thought about those people, about herself, about life, and about the books she was writing or hoped to write." Leonard Woolf has here excerpted his wife's diaries from 1918 through 1941, including every reference his wife's diaries made to her own writing. The resulting book "throws light upon Virginia Woolf's intentions, objects, and methods as a writer. It gives an unusual psychological picture of artistic production from within." Kirkpatrick & Clarke A31a. A rare & desirable Association Copy.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada