WOOLF, Virginia.. Jacob's Room.. London: The Hogarth Press, 1929, 1929.

Price: US$8719.36 + shipping

Description: First edition thus, the Hogarth Press "Uniform Edition", first impression, inscribed by Woolf on the front free endpaper, "Theodora Bosanquet, from Virginia Woolf, 1935". Bosanquet (1880-1961) was the secretary of Henry James, and had been twice published by Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press: first in 1924 with Henry James at Work, then in 1933 with a study of Paul Valery. Inscribed copies of this early Woolf novel are very scarce. Octavo. Original cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Housed in a navy blue cloth folding case. Spine sunned through jacket, a sound copy, clean within and in general very good, with the jacket toned around spine, a little rubbed to ends and corners with some minimal tissue repair to verso.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom