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Price: US$25.73 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 143 pages, very good condition in original decorated paper covered boards and parchment spine, top edge gilt, spine soiled, corners bumped and slightly rubbed, number 341 of an edition of 400, with author's presentation inscription on the half title page ("For Arnold V Bowen/from/Herbert E Palmer/ Spring, 1941/ with much appreciation/ of his appreciation, and/ expectations of his/ coming literary success"). Arnold Bowen was the author of "Lyrics of Love and Death" published by the Fortune Press in 1943.
Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "The Judgment of Francois Villon: a pageant-episode play in five acts" by Herbert Edward Palmer and handnumbered by Virginia Woolf Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London - 1927 limited edition of 400 copies, this copy being no 95 signed by Herbert Palmer - 142p, 18cmx15cm - condition: very good, with original dust jacket in very good condition
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Price: US$77.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Paperback, 16.5 × 10.5cm, 45pp. Inscribed by Robert H Hull to the half-title, "C H Wilkinson from the author, Oxford, October 1927". The tenth title in the second series of Leonard and Virginia Woolf's The Hogarth Press's Hogarth Essays, and music critic Robert H Hull's first book. Here he talks about contemporary music, including Bartok, Delius, Stravinsky etc. Condition: Good / fair condition. The card binding is rubbed to the joints and edges, and with a small amount of damage to the head of the spine. The top corner of the front cover has a very small amount of loss. The pages are age-toned a little but the book remains in strong readable condition.
Seller: Cox & Budge Books, IOBA, Hythe, United Kingdom
Price: US$93.66 + shipping
Description: Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed (twice) and inscribed. Limited first edition = edition no. : 359/400. Physical description; xiv, 14-143, [1] p. ; 23 cm. Subject; Villon, François 1431-1463 Drama. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$96.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition (first printing) - number 99 of 400 numbered copies, this one additionally signed by the author on the colophon. Tall 8vo. 143pp. Decorated quarter-bound parchment-backed boards, lettered in gold at the spine. Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. A trace of light partial browning to half-title, else in virtually fine state with non-price-clipped dust wrapper, a little tanned at spine panel and with several tiny slivers of loss to ends. We have previously had both signed and unsigned copies of this book, suggesting that Palmer put pen to paper only as and when he was in the mood. Woolmer 140.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1927. Signed and Limited First Edition with gift inscription, authors notes and own address in his hand. Number 203 of 400. Signed by author to title page. Also authors presentation copy inscribed to halftitle For George Godwin With admiration and best wishes from the Author. Of additional interest is that the author has written his own name and address to the title page, Herbert Palmer, 22 Batchwood View St. Albans; unfortunately a previous owner has tried to erase this. However Palmers note to himself remains clearly visible to the final leaf; All the preceding books are included with Collected Poems now published by Dent and Sons but only about a dozen copies are left. Royal 8vo. 143pp. Publishers vignette to titlepage. Printed by R R. Clark, Edinburgh, wide margins, top edge gilt, rest uncut. Very good clean tight sound square, beautifully bound Japon Anglaisebacked pictorial red cloth boards featuring black embossed marbling and gilt text, lower corners gently rounded, top edge gilt, rest uncut. A lovely item to grace any library.
Seller: Richard Booth's Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: Very good cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Signed (twice) and inscribed. Limited first edition = edition no. : 359/400. Physical description; xiv, 14-143, [1] p. ; 23 cm. Subject; Villon, François 1431-1463 Drama. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.16 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 143 pages. Parchment-backed patterned cloth.One of 400 numbered copies signed by the author.Fine in fine dustwrapper with a couple of small spots (paper flaw) to rear panel. As good a copy as it would be possible to find.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition Limited to 400 Numbered Copies Signed by Herbert Edward Palmer. Additionally Inscribed by the author on the half-title page, "For Mr & Mrs Howard . with much appreciation and best wishes for the New Year from the bard Herbert Palmer Jan 14th/61". 8vo. 143pp. A near fine copy in 1/4 beige over red and black marbled cloth, gilt titles to the spine, in a very good dust wrapper with brown toning around the edges and a few chips missing on the spine and corners. Woolmer 140. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
William Plomer [Roger Senhouse]. I SPEAK OF AFRICA signed. Hogarth Press, London, 1927.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Signed by Roger Senhouse. Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. Near fine in red cloth, touch of fade and wear at edges) in a scarce dustwrapper, (black lettered in white; large chip at the base of the spine and small chip at the base of the top panel-reinforced tape on back of folds) Rear panel announces various Hogarth Press books including #3 of Woolmer's Hogarth "Ghosts" (de la Mare's, Atmosphere in Fiction, was never published): dustwrapper price at 7s, 6d. Woolmer #142. ROGER SENHOUSE'S copy with his signature on the front free endpaper. Senhouse was Lynton Strachey's friend, and his last lover and operated on the periphery of Bloomsbury. Copies of the First Edition of I speak of African are rare as are the signature of Roger Senhouse.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Sackville-West, Vita. THE LAND - Inscribed by Author. Doubleday Doran & Coy Inc, New York, 1927.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition Inscribed. by Author. Rare First American Edition inscribed by the author on front free endpaper "For Mrs. Little, V. Sackville-West Montreal March 10th 1933" From our Vita Sackville-West Collection. There would be six print runs in the first three years of its publication aided in part by Vita Sackville-West winning the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. 8vo. 107 pp.7 1/4" x 5 1/4" With mylar protection - the original brown cloth covered boards, with an inlay of the dust jacket woodcut illustration designed by George Plank stamped on the front board cover as well as the spine. A slight fading on the front as per the photos. Beige and black dust jacket in very good condition featuring the bold woodcut by GEORGE PLANK. Slight browning and a few chips and cuts to the spine. The DJ has the $2.00 price and stamped with the Hawthornden Prize across the spine. Published by Doran on 16 January 1927 at $1.50 in 500 copies bought from William Heinemann with DJ. Reissued at $2.00, also printed by Heinemann in the same from as the first edition but containing the correction incorporated by Windmill Press. The bibliography on the back panel of the DJ ends with Sissinghurst where as the front flap mentions Family History so the reissue was probably 1933. [Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A13c] Quite a beautiful and of course, a unique addition for any serious VSW Collector.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
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$8684.87 + 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.