Kew Gardens
by Woolf, Virginia
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Richmond: The Hogarth Press, 1919 Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Second edition. One of 500 copies, printed for the Hogarth Press by Richard Madley. Original black wrappers hand-painted in royal blue, chocolate brown, and orange. Some shallow chipping and tears to edges of wrappers, else bright and fresh, uncut pages. Overall, a lovely copy in the original fragile wrappers. Housed in a custom folding box. Kirkpatrick A3b. Woolmer 7. Kew Gardens is a short story that was heavily influenced by the post-Impressionist style of art that was adopted by members the Bloomsbury Group. It was first published separately in May 1919 by Leonard and Virginias own Hogarth Press in an edition of 150 copies, bound in wallpaper wrappers which were supplied from Roger Frys Omega Workshops. This second edition was produced one month later using similar hand-painted wrappers in an edition of 500. The third separate edition (1927) was also limited to 500 copies, some being signed by both Virginia and Vanessa Bell. Kew Gardens was included among other short stories in Monday or Tuesday (1921), and in A Haunted House, published posthumously in 1944.. second Edition. Very Good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- VW141
- Title
- Kew Gardens
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- second Edition
- Publisher
- Richmond: The Hogarth Press
- Date Published
- 1919
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Firsts; Fiction; British Literature; Women's Literature;
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About the Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
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New York, New York
About B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA
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Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Uncut Pages
- 'Uncut pages', or simply 'uncut', traditionally refers to a book which has not been trimmed by rebinding. Prior to the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...