ORLANDO A BIOGRAPHY by WOOLF, Virginia - 1928
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Large octavo. Original publisher's black cloth, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, publisher's charming device to upper board, cream endsheets. T.e.g., other edges untrimmed. Frontispiece portrait of Orlando, plus seven half-tone illustrations, variously portrayed by Vita Sackville-West, to whom the book is dedicated. Trace of minor foxing to front endsheets, a few very minor smudges to cloth, light shelf wear at base of spine, otherwise about fine.
First edition, first printing, number 554 of the 800 copies signed by the author in her characteristic purple ink on the half-title verso; from a limited edition of 861 copies. This edition preceded the first trade edition, published by Woolf's Hogarth Press on 11 October 1928. Woolf's fictitious transgender "biography" of the life and times of a seemingly ageless being named Orlando who starts life as an Elizabethan nobleman, eventually evolving into a woman poet of vast social insight. The story spans 340 years (1588-1928); during this time Orlando ages only thirty-six years and meets key figures of English literary history. The novel is a satirical examination of gender roles and a commentary on the fluidity of identity.
"She wrote Orlando. It was her most elaborate love-letter, rendering Vita androgynous and immortal: it transformed her story into a myth, gave her back to Knole." - Nigel Nicholson, The Letters of Virginia Woolf, Volume III: 1923-1928, p. xxii.
KIRKPATRICK AND CLARKE A11a;
WOOLMER 185 [Note].
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- Date Published 1928
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