Woolf, Virginia. Roger Fry : A Biography by Virginia Woolf (signed first printing & the last book published in Virginia Woolf's lifetime; 8 months before her death). Hogarth Press, London, 1940.

Price: US$7795.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hogarth Press. London. 1940. 307 pages. First edition, first printing stated. Signed by Virginia Woolf on the title page. Book is tight; binding and hinges are strong and sound. Green cloth gilt-stamped on spine. Sunning along panel edges and backstrip. Vintage bookplate neatly trimmed and pasted to front pastedown underneath DJ flap. Toning to front endpaper; bright and clean throughout. Light shelf-rubbing along edges. Original, uncommon DJ with 12s. 6d. net price on DJ spine and on front flap. Later DJs would remove the price from spine to instead designate a later printing. Attractive DJ shows minor shallow edge chipping. Rear of DJ shows light minor soiling. Small open chip at rear shoulder. Closed tear on upper rear edge of DJ. Roger Fry, a celebrated English painter, was a member of the Bloomsbury Group; an intimate collection of friends made up of English writers, intellectuals, philosophers and artists. Members included Roger Fry among Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf. Most of the group was loosely associated with the University of Cambridge/King's College. Of note, Fry had a well-publicized affair with Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister. Upon Roger Fry's unexpected death in 1934, Virgina Woolf penned this intimate biography of her dear friend. This biography was published July 1940 to mixed critical reviews, sending Woolf into a depression; nine months later she would take her own life. This is the last book published in Virginia Woolf's lifetime. First edition, first printing in original DJ, signed. A rare plum for any serious book collector.

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