By Virginia Woolf, Decorations By Vanessa Bell, SIGNED By Both Author & Illustrator on Limitation Page Which is Totally Loose from Book, INNER Hinges Starting, Tiny Sticker Back Blank Endpaper. Kew Gardens ( This Book Publ. In 1927 is One of a Relatively Small Number of Copies SIGNED By Both Author, Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, the Illustrator of the Third English Edition, & This is 1st Illustrated Edition ) LONDON, This Story, Was First. The Hogarth Press, Printed & Engraved By Herbert Reiach, Limited , UK, 1927, 1927.

Price: US$6200.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hard Cover. No Jacket. Signed by Author. HB NODustJacket, 1927, Limited NUMBERED Edition, #120/500 Copies, Third English Edition, & 1st Illustrated Edition, Brown, white green, grey decorated Illustrated Boards lettered in Brown slightly Warped Cover & with chips tears to Extremities, Spinestrip MISSING, but tiny Spine Piece still there unattached, VG-/G00D-, SOLD AS-IS, NODJ, Light soil Back, Corner cover tiny ding Tear, Interior Relatively Nice tight , light wear, Fox, with tiny corner DINGS to bottom edge pgs, Unpaginated, INNER Hinges Starting causing LOOSENESS to some PAGES, . This story, was first Originally published by the Hogarth Press in 1919, & was Woolfs First Individual Volume Published )

Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.

Woolf, Virginia. Kew Gardens.. The Hogarth Press, London, 1927.

Price: US$6500.00 + shipping

Description: Signed limited edition, number 172 of 500 numbered copies, signed by Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell in purple ink. Quarto, original illustrated paper boards, text printed within woodcut borders designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell. From the library of publisher, editor, and literary agent Donald Friede, and with his Miguel Covarrubias-designed book-plate on front paste-down. In very good condition with the spine largely perished. Rare and desirable.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

WOOLF, Virginia.. Kew Gardens. Decorated by Vanessa Bell.. [London:] The Hogarth Press, 1927, 1927.

Price: US$8718.33 + shipping

Description: First fully illustrated edition (third overall), signed by both Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell, not called for in the limitation, and scarce thus. It is hand-numbered by Virginia Woolf as number 143, from a limited edition of 500 copies. The collaboration between author and artist during its initial publication held a great personal importance to Woolf, who saw it as a means of "binding herself to her sister" (Willis, p. 31). Bell's designs for this edition occur on every page of text, acting as borders, punctuation, bridges, or disruptions into the type-set text. In contrast, the first and second editions of 1919 only had a frontispiece and finispiece by Bell, and she was not satisfied with them. This title was Virginia Woolf's third published book and one of her early shorter fictions, which "were less stories than theoretical expositions of the new form of fiction that she had come upon" (ODNB). Its unexpected success was "the most dramatic factor in the Woolfs' becoming significant commercial publishers" (Woolmer, p. xxiii). Sales dramatically increased following a review in the Times Literary Supplement hailing it as "a work of art. a thing of original and therefore strange beauty, with its own 'atmosphere,' its own vital force" (29 May 1919). Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in brown morocco, titles blocked to spine in cream, onlay to front board copied from the original decorated paper boards designed by Vanessa Bell, decorative endpapers based on designs by Vanessa Bell in loop and spot pattern, top edge gilt. Decorative floral frames throughout the text by Vanessa Bell. Title page printed in brown. Printed on rectos only. The occasional minor blemish, an excellent copy finely bound.

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

WOOLF, Virginia. KEW GARDENS. The Hogarth Press (1927), London, 1927.

Price: US$10625.00 + shipping

Description: Third Edition and the First Illustrated Edition bound in the original brown and white paper-covered boards with Vanessa Bell's illustrations, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid down; 45 pages with text printed on rectos only and with decorations by Vanessa Bell on every page. Copy #118 of only 500 numbered copies, some of which, as is this copy, were SIGNED by both the author and the illustrator. First published in 1919 with only two illustrations by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, this is the most desirable edition of this short story. Title and limitation pages with moderate foxing, light foxing scattered throughout; front board very slightly bowed, light rubbing to boards and corners. Very Good

Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.