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Sissinghurst: A Castle's Unfinished History: Restoring Vita Sackville-West's Celebrated Estate

by Nicolson, Adam

Sissinghurst: A Castle's Unfinished History: Restoring Vita Sackville-West's Celebrated Estate, Nicolson, Adam. Published by McClelland & Stewart, 2010. First Canadian Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 352pp. Green boards with gilt spine titles. A couple of soil marks to outside top edge and otherwise volume is in fine, unmarked condition. Dustjacket has a small cut to rear panel top edge and light shelf wear. Sissinghurst Castle is a jewel in the English countryside. Its chief attraction is its celebrated... Read more about this item

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£11.82

Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West

by Sproles, Karyn Z

Desiring Women: The Partnership of Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, Sproles, Karyn Z. University of Toronto Press, Canada, 2006. First Edition. Card covers. 242pp. with Illustrations, 3 appendices, notes, index. In unmarked, unread condition. On 23 September 1925, Virginia Woolf wrote to Vita Sackville-West: 'if you'll make me up, I'll make you.' In Desiring Women, Karyn Sproles argues that the two writers in fact 'made' each other. Woolf and Sackville-West produced some of the most vibrant and... Read more about this item

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£11.82

A HAUNTED HOUSE AND OTHER SHORT STORIES

by WOOLF, Virginia

London: The Hogarth Press, 1943. Good or better./Good.. Red cloth, stamped in black. Foreword by Leonard Woolf. Vanessa Bell designed dust jacket. A good or better copy of the first printing of this work, now uniformly toned as both book and dust jacket were printed on highly acidic wartime paper stock. Bell jacket largely complete but fragile and split along spine's front panel fold with losses at crown, toe and, most recently, a portion of the spine itself after being carelessly handled. Lowered... Read more about this item

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£52.09

Inheritance, the Story of Knole and the Sackvilles

by Sackville-West, Robert

Inheritance, the Story of Knole and the Sackvilles, Sackville-West, Robert. Published by Bloomsbury Books, London, 2010.8vo up to 9½" tall., 293pp, with colour and black and white plates; genealogical table, portraits, bibliographical references and index. Brown cloth boards with gilt spine titles. Light toning and otherwise in fine, unread condition and housed in a fine, unclipped jacket.

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£14.78

Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian

by Noel Annan

Leslie Stephen: The Godless Victorian, Noel Annan. Published by Random House, New York, 1984. First American Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 432pp. with black and white illustrations, index and notes. Quarter bound in grey cloth over grey boards, copper lettering on cover and spine. Contents are clean without markings; remainder mark to top edge and sunning to board edges. First published in 1951, this 1984 edition is revised and expanded with 30 years of additional research. Revised and expanded edition... Read more about this item

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£10.64

Leonard and Virginia Woolf: A Literary Partnership

by Alexander, Peter F

Leonard and Virginia Woolf: A Literary Partnership, Alexander, Peter F. St. Published by St, Martin's Press, New York, 1992. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 265 pp. with photographs, notes, select bibliography and index. Blue boards with silver spine titles. In fine condition; unclipped dustjacket has light shelf wear and otherwise is fine.

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£11.82

THE LIFE AND DEATH OF ASHAM: LEONARD & VIRGINIA WOOLF'S HAUNTED HOUSE

by [Virginia Woolf]: Hansen, Carol: Wilson, Jean Moorcroft [ed]

London: Cecil Woolf, 2000. First edition. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 28 pp., 4 unnumbered pages of 8 color plates; one b&w half-tone photo, one illustration by Dora Carrington. Crease on lower wrapper fore-tip, small binding pinch at lower edge of spine, else about fine. No other copies currently available in commerce [March 2024]. First edition. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series No. 26. Asham House in East Sussex was... Read more about this item

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£87.09

Bloomsbury a House of Lions

by Edel, Leon

Bloomsbury a House of Lions, Edel, Leon. Published by Lippincott, Philadelphia, 1979. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 288pp. notes, chronology, bibliography and index; illustrated with black and white photos. Quarter navy over blue. Bit of fading to board edges, the number 2 in ink to free endpaper and otherwise volume is fine condition without markings etc. Unclipped jacket has edge wear, scuffing and inside toning. An examination of the lives, careers, achievements, and influence of the... Read more about this item

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£8.87

ANONYMITY AN EQUIRY. THE HOGARTH ESSAYS, FIRST SERIES, NO. XII

by FORSTER, E. M

Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Pale green sewn paper boards, printed and decorated in black. First edition, published December 1925 at 2 s.; 2000 copies printed. Cover design by Vanessa Bell. 23pp. 8½ x 5½". Some scattered marks to upper panel and sunning along upper edges, spine split starting, bump to lower fore-tip, neat ink ownership signature to verso of front panel, else a good copy. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American... Read more about this item

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£104.18

THE LONDON SCENE FIVE ESSAYS BY VIRGINIA WOOLF

by WOOLF, Virgnia

London: The Hogarth Press, 1982. First UK edition. Small octavo. Reddish-grey cloth boards, lettered in gilt, edges trimmed. White illustrated dust jacket by Angelica Garnett, printed in yellow, brown, and black. Fine, in equally fine dust jacket. First UK edition of essays originally written for "Good Housekeeping" magazine in 1931-1932, and previously only published in book form in an American limited edition of 750 copies in 1975 by Frank Hallman, New York. The five essays of the title are, The... Read more about this item

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£26.04

A Boy at the Hogarth Press

by KENNEDY, Richard; HILLIER, Bevis (Introduction)

London: Heinemann, 1972. Cloth. Near Fine. FIRST TRADE EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR. 4to, pp. x, 85, [1], amply illustrated with b/w line drawings + fold-out map of 'The Hogarth Press [about 1928]', lettered in red. Original beige linen, spine and upper board blocked in black, lettered in gilt. Top edge yellow. Gentle pushing to spine ends. Signed by Kennedy in black pen to title page, scant spotting to endpapers and map. Else, clean and tight. In the original illustrated dust jacket:... Read more about this item

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£50.00

Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932

by Gretchen Gerzina

Carrington: A Life of Dora Carrington, 1893-1932, Gretchen Gerzina Published by Pimlico, 1995. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 342pp. with index, notes, black and white photos and illustrations. Light shelf wear to card covers; text block has moderate toning.
Dora Carrington (1893-1932) was a gifted artist and an intimate of the Bloomsbury set including Virginia Woolf, Augustus John, E.M. Forster. Wyndham Lewis, D. H. Lawrence, and Aldous Huxley each portrayed her in their novels. Married to Ralph Partridge the... Read more about this item

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£7.09

The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years

by Herbert Marder

The Measure of Life: Virginia Woolf's Last Years, Herbert Marder. Published by Cornell University Press, Ithaca & London, 2001. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 418pp. including several black and white photos. In fine condition without markings, folds or tears; lightest of shelf wear to covers. This is a richly detailed biography of Virginia Woolf's last ten years, from the creation of her great visionary novel, The Waves, to her suicide in 1941. Herbert Marder looks closely at Woolf's views on... Read more about this item

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£9.46

Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1930 -1964

by Harold Nicolson; Olson Stanley (edited and condensed by), Nigel Nicolson (introduction by

Harold Nicolson: Diaries and Letters 1930 -1964, Olson Stanley (edited and condensed by), Nigel Nicolson (introduction by). Published by Collins, London, 1980. New and Condensed Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 436pp. with index. Brown cloth boards with blindstamped titles to front and copper titles to spine, top edge orange. Name to free endpaper and otherwise volume is in fine condition; unclipped jacket has light shelf wear. Sir Harold George Nicolson KCVO CMG was a British politician, diplomat,... Read more about this item

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£11.82

Letters of Leonard Woolf

by Woolf, Leonard; Edited by Frederick Spotts

Letters of Leonard Woolf, Woolf, Leonard; Edited by Frederick Spotts. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, New York And London, 1989. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 616pp., with family tree, chronology, biographical appendix, index and 16pp. of black and white plates. Quarter dark blue cloth over blue boards, gilt spine titles. In fine condition in price clipped jacket also in fine condition and protected in mylar. Contains 600 letters dating from 1901 to 1969; correspondents include... Read more about this item

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£11.82

Portrait of a Marriage

by Nicolson, Nigel

Portrait of a Marriage, Nicolson, Nigel, Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1973. Black cloth boards with red and silver spine titles, top edge red. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 235pp. with index and 12 pp. of black and white plates. Volume is in fine condition with very light spine slant. Unclipped jacket has toning to flaps, edge rubbing with a few small chips and 2 closed tears. . Nigel Nicolson is the son of the politician, diarist and biographer Harold Nicolson, and the poet and writer Vita... Read more about this item

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£8.87

Virginia Woolf

by Nicolson, Nigel

Virginia Woolf, Nicolson, Nigel. Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London, UK, 2000. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 165pp. with black and white and colour illustrations. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine titles, illustrated end papers. In fine, unread condition; unclipped jacket has small wrinkle head of spine and is otherwise, fine.

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£11.82

Old Friends Personal Recollections

by Bell, Clive

Old Friends Personal Recollections, Bell, Clive. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1957. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 200 pp. with frontis caricature portrait by Max Beerbohm, index. Quarter beige cloth over marbled boards, green gilt spine titles and green gilt C.B. initials to front. Ghost mark to free endpaper from paper slip laid in and otherwise contents in fine condition. Unclipped dustjacket has light scuffing and toning. Clive Bell (1881-1964) was an art critic. He was... Read more about this item

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£17.74

The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs, Commentary and Criticism

by S. P. Rosenbaum (editor)

The Bloomsbury Group: A Collection of Memoirs, Commentary and Criticism, S. P. Rosenbaum (editor) Published by University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Canada, 1996. Revised Edition. Card covers. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 495pp. including notes, bibliographies of Group members, identifications, bibliography, index. Contents in fine, unmarked condition, binding remains tight. Covers have light shelf wear.

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£11.82

Moore: G. E. Moore and The Cambridge Apostles

by Levy, Paul

Moore: G. E. Moore and The Cambridge Apostles, Levy, Paul. Published by Papermac, London, 1989. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 335pp.with index, bibliography, bores, appendix and glossy section of black and white photos. Toning to text block and otherwise without markings, tears or folds, average shelf wear to card covers.

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£7.09

The Loving Friends: A Portrait of Bloomsbury

by Gadd, David

The Loving Friends: A Portrait of Bloomsbury, Gadd, David. Published by Harcourt, New York, 1974. First Edition, second printing. Quarter black over grey. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 210pp with black and white photographs, index and bibliography. Inscription to free endpaper and otherwise both volume and unclipped jacket are in fine condition.

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£11.82

Sowing; Growing; Beginning Again; Downhill All the Way; The Journey Not the Arrival Matters

by Leonard Woolf

An Autobiography: Sowing; Growing; Beginning Again; Downhill All the Way; The Journey Not the Arrival Matters, Leonard Woolf. Published by The Hogarth Press, London, 1962 to 1969. First four volumes are second printings; fifth volume is a first printing. A complete set of five volumes: Sowing (1880 to 1904); Growing (1904 to 1911); Beginning Again (1911 to 1918); Downhill All the Way (1919 to 1939); and The Journey not the Arrival Matters (1939 to 1969). 8vo up to 9½" tall., Blue cloth with gilt spine... Read more about this item

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£82.77

Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family

by Caine, Barbara

Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family, Caine, Barbara. Published by Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., xvii, 488pp.with illustrations. Black board with gilt titles. Moisture mark to lower part of rear dustjacket and board which does not affect contents; volume and jacket are otherwise in fine condition without markings, tears or folds; binding is tight.

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£9.46

Eminent Victorians

by Strachey, Lytton

Eminent Victorians. Strachey, Lytton. Published by The Folio Society, London, 1986. Follows the text of the first edition published by Chatto & Windus in 1918. 4to up to 12" tall. 272pp. with 12 pages of illustrations in colour and black and white. Green cloth boards with four photographic portraits within elaborate gilt scrolled borders; green endpapers. Housed in a green paper covered slipcase. Eminent Victorians. Strachey, Lytton Published by The Folio Society, London, 2000. Follows the text of the... Read more about this item