THIS PERPETUAL FIGHT LOVE AND LOSS IN VIRGINIA WOOLF'S INTIMATE CIRCLE

New York: The Grolier Club, 2008. First edition, limited edition. Fine. Large octavo. Cloth and decorated paper. 11.5 x 8.75 in. [4],152,[6] pp. Color frontispiece, and numerous color plate illustrations. Introductory note, ten individual topical essays, author biographies, notes, and bibliography. Published to accompany the exhibition at the Grolier Club, New York City, September 16 through November 22, 2008. Personal copy with bookplate of the Hogarth Press /Bloomsbury Group collector and author William Beekman affixed to front pastedown, else a fine, pristine copy; without a dust jacket as issued. 

First edition, limited to 1000 copies. Utilizing books, images, letters, and manuscript materials that best narrate the life and work of Virginia Woolf, This Perpetual Fight focuses on Woolf's relationships with her husband, Leonard Woolf; her parents, Leslie and Julia Stephen; siblings, Vanessa Bell, Thoby and Adrian Stephen; suitors, friends, lovers; and other important figures in Woolf's life, including Vita Sackville-West, Clive Bell, John Maynard Keynes, Saxon Sydney-Turner, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, T. S. Eliot, Lytton Strachey, and Dora Carrington. Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando, A Room of One's Own, and others are discussed and illustrated. Contributions by Deirdre Bair, Rachel Cohen, Ruth Gruber, Mark Hussey, Peter Stansky, Andrew Solomon, and Elizabeth Hartley Winthrop.