London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. First edition. Vanessa Bell.. Demy octavo. Cloth, gilt stamped spine. First edition, second impression. All copies of Flush designated as a "Large Paper Edition" are second impressions, according to the bibliographies. Frontis and plates. Four original drawings by Vanessa Bell, and six other illustrations. Usual tanning to cloth at edges and spine, otherwise a good plus copy in imperfect, soiled cream dust jacket that lacks most of the spine panel, with ghosts of past cellotape at the edge of what had been the spine panel.

Woolf's brilliant biography of a dog; not just any dog, but the poet Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spaniel Flush. Flush not only played an active part in human life and inspired poetry, but was himself a dog estimated by all who knew him as a dog of worth and character well deserving celebration.

"FLUSH is only by way of a joke. I was so tired after THE WAVES, that I lay in the garden and read the Browning letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life. I wanted to play a joke on Lytton [Strachey] -- it was to parody him. But then it grew too long, and I dont think its up to much now. But this is all very egotistical." -- WOOLF, Vol. V. p.161-2. WOOLMER 334.
KIRKPATRICK A19a.

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Bookseller: Second Wind Books LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 287
Title: FLUSH A BIOGRAPHY
Author: WOOLF, Virginia
Illustrator: Vanessa Bell.
Book Condition: Used
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
Publisher: The Hogarth Press
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1933
Keywords: Dogs, poetry, inspiration

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