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WOOLF, Virginia SKU: 19306 Barcode:
Stock No. 19306
Authors: Virginia, WOOLF
London: Hogarth Press, 1953
First Edition, first printing. 8vo. pp x + 372. Original orange cloth boards, with the orange and black 'Bloomsbury' dust-jacket designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell. Wrapper is not price-clipped but the spine is browned and there is a small amount of loss at the head and tail. Other than that, condition of book both and jacket is excellent, with two former owner's neat inscriptions to first free endpaper (author Justin Wintle and 'Olivia Ellis', both dated. Top edge of text block stained orange, to match the cloth. Internally clean, no foxing or offsetting, and text block is tight and square.. Pages clean. No reading lean to the binding. A VG+ copy all round. Virginia Woolf left behind her twenty-six volume diary, started in 1915, following death by her own hand in 1941. Her husband, Leonard, distilled from it "everything which referred to her own writing", thus providing "an unusual psychological picture of artistic production from within". In this way. the journal gives for twenty-seven years a consecutive record of what she did, the people she saw, and particularly of what she thought about those people, about herself, about life, and about the books she was writing or hoped to write.
