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WOOLF, VIRGINIA. On Being Ill. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, [London], 1930.
Price: US$3564.88 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12 mo. Pp. 34. Blue cloth, vellum spine, gilt spine title, marbled endpapers. With original printed limitation of 125 numbered copies stroked through and 250 copies printed above, "Out of series" handwritten in purple ink by Leonard Woolf, type-set and signed in purple ink by Virginia Woolf, top edge trimmed, others deckled. Covers soiled, spinestrip darkened, tiny 2 mm stain at fore-edge of 3 leaves, else interior clean and crisp. Lacks the dust jacket, else very good copy of the preliminary state.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Virginia Woolf. On Being Ill. The Hogarth Press, 1930.
Price: US$7000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited first edition, number 118 of 250 copies signed by Woolf at the colophon. First published in New Criterion in 1926, Woolf's essay explores the literary possibilities of illness, seeking to establish it as a serious subject of literature, along the lines of love, jealousy and battle. London: The Hogarth Press, 1930. Slim quarto, publisher's original vellum-backed green cloth, marbled endpapers, woodcut vignette on final leaf, original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell; pp. 34, [1]. Binding secure, minimal wear to boards. Faint thumb soiling to cloth, minor discoloration to vellum. Internally clean. Jacket shows some shelfwear at extremities with a chip at spine crown and a short split near spine heel, minor bump and small loss at spine, a touch of rubbing, spine lightly sunned. A presentable copy, protected in archival mylar.
Seller: Kevin Sell, The Rare Book Sleuth, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. On Being Ill.. Hogarth Press, London, 1930.
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Description: Signed limited first bookÂedition of this meditation on the literary possibilities of illness, number 54 of 250 copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink. Octavo, original half vellumÂand green silkÂboards, marbledÂendpapers. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Woolf's essay advances the idea that illness is as worthy a topic of literary attention as more traditional ones like war, love and lust: "novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza; epic poems to typhoid; odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no; ⦠literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear." Woolf wrote this essay while convalescing in bed following a bout with exhaustion. During its composition she was leading what she called an "amphibious" life: half in, half out of bed. She also set the type for this book herself. First published in the Criterion in January, 1926; the text has been slightly revised for this edition. Kirkpatrick A14. Woolmer 248.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. On Being Ill.. Hogarth Press, London, 1930.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited first bookÂedition of this meditation on the literary possibilities of illness, number 154 of 250 copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink. Octavo, original half vellumÂand green silkÂboards, marbledÂendpapers. Fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition. Woolf's essay advances the idea that illness is as worthy a topic of literary attention as more traditional ones like war, love and lust: "novels, one would have thought, would have been devoted to influenza; epic poems to typhoid; odes to pneumonia, lyrics to toothache. But no; ⦠literature does its best to maintain that its concern is with the mind; that the body is a sheet of plain glass through which the soul looks straight and clear." Woolf wrote this essay while convalescing in bed following a bout with exhaustion. During its composition she was leading what she called an "amphibious" life: half in, half out of bed. She also set the type for this book herself. First published in the Criterion in January, 1926; the text has been slightly revised for this edition. Kirkpatrick A14. Woolmer 248.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.