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Brooklyn, NY: Hamilton Easter Field, 1921. Good. Tall octavo. Printed and decorated gray wrappers. First edition. Cover art by Robert Laurent. Full and half-page black and white reproductions of important art exhibited during the first quarter of the twentieth century. Art and artists, exhibitions, books, letters and opinions of the editor/ publisher/noted artist enhance the enjoyment of this highly personal arts monthly. Advertisements for art galleries, art supplies, artist's studios and apartments, private art sales, etc., precede and follow the text. From the private collection of the Bloomsbury / Hogarth Press William Beekman, whose bookplate is laid in. All edges ruffled, snagged with small tears, upper panel has small red smudge, spine cracked and split, else good and thoroughly enjoyable. Field reviews the book, SOME CONTEMPORARY ENGLISH ARTISTS, Birrell & Garnett, London, 1921, [which is available elsewhere on this website] on page 58.

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 animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. . WOOLMER 61..

Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1931. Buff paper, hand-sewn wrappers, printed in black and blue. Cover design by the surrealist artist John Banting. 27pp. 7⅜ x 4¾. Black and white engraving of Prince Lee Boo Second Son of Abba Thulle. First edition, published October 1931 at 1s.; 5,000 copies printed of which 500 copies were bound up in the collected  edition of The Hogarth Letters. Edges tanned, some scattered foxing, else very good. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. . WOOLMER 254..

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,… Read More