Search Results: Bloomsbury Group from TBCL The Book Collection Library

London, 1998. 1st Edition. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Autograph letters signed by Frances Partridge in her 98th year. Partridge, Frances. 1900 - 2004. The second to last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group, the last being, Anne Olivier Popham Bell, wife of Quentin Bell, (as of 2007). A wonderful, original set of two handwritten letters, dated 1998, to Vita Sackville-West's bibliographer. In addition, an original photograph Inscribed on the verso by Frances Partridge. Her death in 2004, at the great age of 103, closed a remarkable chapter in English literary life. Her friendships with Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey, Dora Carrington, David Garnett, (her brother-inlaw), are vividly chronicled in her memoirs and would have assured her own immortality. Born and brought up in the heart of Bloomsbury, in Bedford Square, she became allied by marriage and friendship to everyone of significance in the literary and artistic worlds of the Twenties and Thirties. Two… Read More

London: Victor Gollancz, 1939. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition, Victor Gollancz's First UK Trade Edition published 1939. Not to be confused with the more commonly found 'Left Book Club' softcover edition published the same year. Bloomsbury Scholar, PETER STANSKY'S copy with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper Peter D L [David Lyman] Stansky and dated Cambridge 1953. 8vo. 221 pp. He co-wrote an engaging biography on Leonard Woolf entitled" Leonard Woolf Bloomsbury Socialist with Fred Leventhal. A very good copy in black covered boards, black with gilt titles to the spine.Dust jacket slightly browned on the spine, a little soiling and edge wear. 'Two weeks post-Munich Victor Gollancz wrote Leonard Woolf that tolerance, the open mind and freedom of thought were endangered and invited him to write a book with a title along the lines of, The Defence Of Western Civilization. On May 9, 1939, Leonard Woolf submitted his manuscript, Barbarians At The Gate".… Read More

Boston: Little, Brown, (1992), 1992. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A fine copy in the publisher's navy cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine in a fabulous pictorial dustwrapper depicting Vanessa Bell's, Charleston Garden on the front and Duncan Grant, Roger Fry and Vanessa Bell Charlestonian paintings on the back panel. Quarto. 120 pp. A panoramic view of Charleston, exploring its design developments that now attracts thousands of tourists yearly. Illustrated with sumptuous colour photographs recalling the daily lives of all of its inhabitants and Bloomsbury Group visitors, including Clive Bell, Maynard Keynes, Lytton Strachey, Roger Fry, E.M. Forster, Virginia and Leonard Woolf, David Garnett et al. A truly stunning book.

London, 1931. First Edition. Hardcover. Dora Carrington. Dora Carrington. First Edition. Hardcover. Dora Carrington. Bookplate for Lytton Strachey. Circa 1931. Small. 1" by 3/4 " with the words Lytton Strachey in a plaque or cartouche with folded edges surrounded by net-like cross hatching in dark sepia tone. Stuck to a marbled board: 6 1/2" x 4". Carrington wrote of this bookplate in her diary (March 20 1931) rather prophetically:- 'As I stuck the book plates in with Lytton I suddenly thought of Sothebys and the book plates in some books I had looked at, when Lytton was bidding for a book and I thought: These books will one day be looked at by those gloomy faced booksellers and buyers. And suddenly a premonition of a day when these labels will no longer (be) in this library came over me. I longed to ask Lytton not to stick in any more.' Strachey died 10 months later.

London: Hogarth Press, 1937. CAN I HELP YOU? Hogarth Press. 1937. Illustrated by Virginia Parsons who was the daughter of Viola Tree. Published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf. 8vo. 256 pp. 8 5/8" x 5 1/2" in the "peach" coloured dust jacket printed black with the blue gilt stamped blue cloth. Typically this edition is housed in an orange dust jacket but according to "Washington State University Library has a copy in peach with "Travellers Copy"written across the top". Woolmer 422. This copy does not. This is a book on etiquette that the actress Viola Tree adapted from her eight years as an advice columnist called 'Can I Help You?' in London's Sunday Dispatch. A very solid and lovely copy. A very good copy for any Hogarth Press collector.

London: The Lefevre Galleries, March, 1934. First Edition.. Soft cover. First Edition. Soft cover. Woolf. Virginia. CATALOGUE OF RECENT PAINTINGS BY VANESSA BELL. With a Foreword by Virginia Woolf. London: The Lefevre Galleries, March, 1934. First Edition. Stapled wrappers. Sm. 8vo., 4 pages. pale blue paper wrappers printed in darker blue and red. Page 1 forward by Virginia Woolf. Of the two Vanessa Bell catalogues in this format, with the Woolf forward, the 1930 while scarce in condition is the more common. The 1934 is rare & we have not seen another offered in some time. This is a very good copy showing its age but here it is, none-the-less ["Not offered for sale"] - Kirkpatrick B14.

New York: Harcourt Brace, (1925), 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. by Author. Very scarce First American Edition Neatly Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. The First Series not the more Common Second Series. 8vo. 332 pp. A fine fresh copy in a beautifully crafted black leather and cloth binding with gold stamping on the spine and gold leaf edging on the top pages, with dynamic purple marbled patterned endpapers. A very Rare copy indeed. An erudite collection proving Woolf at her critical best. Includes her now famous, On Not Knowing Greek, Modern Fiction, Jane Austen & Montaigne, with whom both Virginia and Leonard Woolf harboured a special sympathy for, culminating in, Leonard Woolf"s autobiography, The Journey Not The Arrival Matters. Kirkpatrick & Clarke A8b.

London: Chatto & Windus, 1932. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. First UK Edition. Original publisher's ochre-coloured boards with black lettering to the spine. Clean copy with sharp corners and tight binding, 266pp. 8vo. Lewis's feud with the Bloomsbury Group, Roger Fry and by extension, Virginia Woolf is now legend and immortalized in his, Men Without Art.

London: Chatto & Windus Ltd, 1997. First Edition. First Edition. First Edition, DUNCAN GRANT Signed by Frances Spalding London(1989) Hard Cover. A near fine copy with a beautifully dynamic dustjacket depicting one of Grant's self portraits. DUNCAN GRANT (1885-1978) Duncan Grant was a British painter and designer of textiles, pottery, theatre sets and costumes and an active member of the Bloomsbury Group of intellectuals, philosophers and artists in the first half of the 20th century The Bloomsbury group was comprised of ten original members: Clive Bell, art critic Vanessa Bell, post-impressionist painter E. M. Forster, fiction writer Roger Fry, art critic and post-impressionist painter Duncan Grant, post-impressionist painter John Maynard Keynes, economist Desmond MacCarthy, literary critic Lytton Strachey, biographer Leonard Woolf, essayist and non-fiction writer Virginia Woolf, fiction writer and essayist.

London: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1978. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition.Inscribed by Francis King "To Melanie with Love from Francis 2 July1978" and signed as well on the title page. A fine copy in the publisher's original grey cloth covered boards, gilt lettering to the spine and front in a near fine "unclipped" pictorial dust wrapper depicting E.M. Forster by George Platt Lynes on the front panel and in his King's College, Cambridge rooms on the back panel. Small 4to. 128 pp. With 122 black and white photographs throughout. A superb biography of the author of A Passage To India and Howards End.

London: Anthony Blond, 1969. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. ERTÉ.. ERTÉ. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Illustrator. First Edition Signed by ERTÉ on the title-page whose elegant designs grace the pages of Lytton Strachey's little "entertainment", a camouflaged indictment against the sexual mores in England during his time. 8vo. 48 pp. A near fine copy in pink cloth, gilt titles and decorations in a fine ERTÉ illustrated dust wrapper with some shelf wear. An Introduction by Michael Holroyd. "Will you believe me when I tell you that I have begun and got well under way with a new facétie?" Lytton Strachey to Henry Lamb. Letters. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall with Foyles Books Sticker on inside cover.

New York: Harcourt Brace, (1987), 1987. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed. First American Edition Inscribed by Editor Andrew McNeillie on the title page. "D- from Andrew, Andover October '89, with best wishes, A McNeillie". A fine copy in 1/4 wine cloth over beige paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in a fine pictorial dustwrapper. 8vo. 381 pp. A brilliant collection, spanning the years 1912 to 1918, again proving Woolf at her critical best. Includes her now famous, Hours In A Library, Philosophy In Fiction and A Scribbling Dame. Kirkpatrick And Clarke A63b. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

NY: Harcourt, Brace And Company, (1958). 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition with rare Advance Copy announcement dated September 10, 1958 inside. 8vo. 240 pp. Near fine in the Vanessa Bell unclipped dust wrapper showing light general toning and sunning to spine. Original Blue cloth covers with some overall use and rubbing on the spine. A very good attractive copy indeed.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Leonard Woolf. First Edition, First American Edition with Leonard Woolf's inscription "Elizabeth from Leonard Christmas 1962" GROWING. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARS 1904 TO 1911 in the original blue cloth covers with gild stamping to the spine. Unclipped and bright dust jacket with some light overall use. The cloth boards have some edge wear. The inside solid and clean. A rare addition to any collector of Leonard Woolf.

London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. First Edition. First Edition of Leonard Woolf's HUNTING THE HIGHBROW published at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square. Small 8vo. Beautiful cover design by Vanessa Bell, Virginia Woolf's sister on beige boards with black printing. Covers and inside slightly aged. Issued as No.5 of 'The Hogarth Essays, Second Series'. Woolmer, 152: 1,000 copies were printed. A lovely discreet label on the inside cover "The Times Bookclub

London: Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. First Edition. Signed by Roger Senhouse. Hogarth Press, 1927. First Edition. Near fine in red cloth, touch of fade and wear at edges) in a scarce dustwrapper, (black lettered in white; large chip at the base of the spine and small chip at the base of the top panel-reinforced tape on back of folds) Rear panel announces various Hogarth Press books including #3 of Woolmer's Hogarth "Ghosts" (de la Mare's, Atmosphere in Fiction, was never published): dustwrapper price at 7s, 6d. Woolmer #142. ROGER SENHOUSE'S copy with his signature on the front free endpaper. Senhouse was Lynton Strachey's friend, and his last lover and operated on the periphery of Bloomsbury. Copies of the First Edition of I speak of African are rare as are the signature of Roger Senhouse.

Boston: Little, Brown, (1983). First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Cloth. First Edition. A near fine copy in 1/4 black cloth over yellow paper covered boards, gilt titles to the spine in a lovely pictorial dustwrapper portraying Julia Strachey, Lytton Strachey's niece. 8vo. 308 pp. Black and white photographs. Inscribed "To Eva with very much love from Frances" The Eva was most probably Eva Disher who was a friend of Frances and the Bloomsbury group and was in "Friends in Focus", a book with photos by Frances Partridge. A fascinating Bloomsbury memoir. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: William Heinemann, 1949. First Edition, 3rd Impression of the 1922 Edition KNOLE AND THE SACKVILLES of Vita Sackville-West's homage to her ancestral family home, Knole. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with gilt stamping on the front and spine with some slight staining and minor bumping on the front board. Usual shelf wear to the spine. Pages are clean. A very good copy. Signed and Inscribed to the front free endpaper. "For Miss Cashford- who knows Knole-, V. S.W. Sissyinghurst Christmas 1949" A wonderful addition to any VSW collector's library.

London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, (1977). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. First Edition Inscribed by Nigel Nicolson on the title-page. "Inscribed for Aunt Helen by Nigel Nicolson". 8vo. 228 pp. A fine copy of this winner of the 1977 Whitbread Prize for biography in brown cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a bright, fresh neatly price-clipped pictorial dust wrapper with a touch of edge wear. With black and white photographs throughout. 'American-born Mary Curzon and her three daughters are considered to be part of the inspiration for the fictional characters Lady Grantham and her three daughters in the Downton Abbey television series'. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, (1948), 1948. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. A lovely copy in the publisher's maroon cloth covered boards, gilt on the spine a trifle faded, in a truly exquisite Vanessa Bell dustwrapper, the pink still very bright indeed, traditionally clipped on all four sides. This early volume of essays, published seven years after her death, collects hitherto unpublished pieces by Woolf. A unique glimpse into the mind of this truly great writer through a diversity of subjects, literary and personal. Includes, The Moment: Summer's Night, On Being Ill, Roger Fry, Notes On D.H. Lawrence, The Art Of Fiction and The Leaning Tower. 8vo. 140 pp. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A29b.