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Price: US$354.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST, LIMITED & SIGNED EDITION, no. 94/ 100. Slim 8vo, pp. 55, [1]. Original rose-brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Lean to spine, rubbed and soiled, pushing to spine ends. Gently toned, ffep spotted, signed and numbered by Day Lewis in blue ink to limitation page, a few marks to gutter, front matter gently creased, else, clean. Unusual. Good+ A robust copy of the first, limited & signed edition of Day Lewis' early poetry collection, reflecting his leftist politics of the period. Published in March 1933 and priced at 7s6d, it was no. 1 in the Hogarth Living Poets, Second Series. A trade edition, of 500 copies, was published simultaneously. With a printed dedication: "To W. H. Auden". Woolmer 318A
Seller: Quair Books PBFA, Leeds, United Kingdom
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Sackville-West's collected poems including "The Land" and "Sissinghurst" (which was dedicated to Virginia Woolf), as well as 28 new poems published here for the first time. Octavo, complete in one volume (Volume I was the only volume published). Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. From the library of Erica Jong. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movementâs redefinition of female sexuality. In interviews, Jong stated: âAt the time I wrote Fear of Flying, there was not a book that said women are romantic, women are intellectual, women are sexualâ"and brought all those things together⦠What [Isadora is] looking for is how to be a whole human being, a body and a mind, and that is what women were newly aware they needed in 1973.â The novel remains a feminist classic and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. In very good condition. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it a second time, becoming the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her Collected Poems.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. The Hogarth Press, London, 1933.
Price: US$2800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing of the new edition. Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine titled lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light wear at extremities, light soiling to cloth and endsheets foxed. While limited editions signed by Virginia Woolf are somewhat common, signed trade editions have become quite scarce.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Flush: A Biography.. The Hogarth Press, New York, 1933.
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Description: First edition of Woolf's fictional "stream of consciousness" tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers by Vanessa Bell, with four original drawings by Vanessa Bell and six other illustrations. Boldly signed by Virginia Woolf on the second free endpaper. Very good with laminate to the cloth in a very good supplied dust jacket. One of the most important modernist 20th century authors, British novelist Virginia Woolf became a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism, and her works have since garnered much attention and widespread commentary for "inspiring feminism", an aspect of her writing that was unheralded earlier. Woolf's best known works include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931).
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.