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Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1928. Near fine./Rare, good.. Octavo. Orange cloth, lettered in gilt. 300pp. 8 ⅝ x 5½ in. White dust jacket printed in black. The jacket reproduces an unidentified portrait from the Worthing Art Gallery. Frontispiece and seven black and white photographic plates. Index. Spine lightly sunned, else a near fine copy in a dusty dust jacket with a triangular piece missing from the lower edge where it is creased; at some point a copy of a dust jacket was made and the missing piece was slipped in behind the panel to complete the wrapper, but not permanently affixed. Dust jackets in any condition on this edition are rare, and none currently found in commerce by this cataloguer. From the library of James Strohn Copley, with his bookplate. First English edition, first impression; published 11 October 1928, 5080 copies printed, 9s. Dedication to V. Sackville West.  In an excess of emotion, Woolf wrote to her dearest… Read More

Mecklenburgh Square, London: The Hogarth Press, 1941. Very Good.. Publisher's bright blue cloth, lettered in gilt. 256 pp. 7⅛ x 4¾ in. White dust jacket printed in black, designed by Vanessa Bell, with "Vanessa" in the bottom right corner rather than the usual "V.B." Boards clean, spine has sunned line at crown where it sat proud from the dust wrapper; minor shelf-wear, offsetting to endsheets, ink ownership signature on front free endpaper with the date "July, 1941" which is the date of publication. Light crease on title page. Rear endsheets have a book review by Woolf's friend Desmond MacCarthy in the Observer, another laid in by Richard Church in an unidentified publication, and yet another in Time and Tide 17 May 1941 by Lord David Cecil entitled "A Note of Virginia Woolf." Dust jacket has one chip near top of spine, tiny closed tear on top edge of rear panel, and the usual smudges a white dust jacket would have. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator,… Read More

Richmond: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1922. First edition, first impression. Very Good.. Octavo. Original publisher's crocus-yellow cloth boards, white label lettered in black on spine. 290,14pp. 7½ x 5 in.  Published 27 October 1922, only 1200 copies printed at 7s. 6d. Boards are cleaner than usual having been kept in an acetate dust jacket in lieu of the Vanessa Bell wrapper, which is not present on this copy. Spine label darkened and chipped at left edge causing a small loss to the first letter in "JACOB." Top edge trimmed, others uncut. Some little edgewear, crown of spine may have been repaired. Interior clean and unmarked. Paris, December 1922 ownership inscription on first free endpaper of Edith Bone (1889-1975). Bone was a doctor, journalist, and translator who in 1949 was acting as a freelance correspondent in Budapest for the London Daily Worker when she was arrested and accused of spying. Bone was held in solitary confinement without trial for seven… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. Very good or better. Octavo. Red cloth boards, blind-stamped, gilt spine. [iii],334pp. 8¾ x5¾ in. Cream pictorial dust jacket printed brown and green, designed by Vanessa Bell. Boards bright and clean, ink ownership signature and date on front free endpaper, edges dusty, otherwise very good or better, in an unclipped dusty, dust jacket with a few chips at extremities and a small loss at the at the upper spine and upper fore-tip. 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. Scarce in dust jacket. First American edition, third impression. Published 14 May 1925; 2000 copies printed at $3.50. There was a second impression of 535 copies in November 1927, and a third of 500 in December of 1930, of which this edition is a copy. There were additional impressions in… Read More

[New York: Rapho-Guillumette, 1959. Two gelatin silver print borderless film stills, one with the photographer's ink-stamp credit to verso and caption. (1) candid production set still of Audrey Hepburn in nun's habit standing in a river in the Belgian Congo with many natives and production crew, 14 x 11 in. (35.5 x 28 cm.); (2) Audrey Hepburn walking with Dean Jagger in a Belgian city with director Fred Zinnemann, Cinematographer Franz Planer, and a member of the production crew as Hepburn is being escorted by her father to a convent, 13.5 x 7.78 inches (34.29 x 20 cm).  Sanford H. Roth (1906-1962) was an American photographer whose work has appeared in Time, Life, Look, Fortune, Paris Match, Elle, Der Stern, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, Oggi, People, and other publications. His photographs of James Dean, Audrey Hepburn, and Marlon Brando still appear regularly in books, magazines, print and other works all over the world. The Nun's Story is a 1959 drama film based upon the popular novel of the same… Read More

Sign of the Red Pale, Westminister: [William Caxton], 1482. One original folio leaf of the chapter Liber Quartus, viii, (Book Four), printed on recto and verso in black bâtarde typeface, rubricated in red, with marginal chronological notes in red, and ink notations in an early hand. 10.63 x 7.69 in. (27 x 19.5 cm) approx. 40 lines plus heading on each of the two pages. Small chip from the lower foretip, tiny paper adhesion on extreme edge of verso, else very good. Contained in a floating mat for observation of entire leaf. Scarce. William Caxton (1422-1491 or 1492) introduced printing in English in 1476, establishing his first press on the grounds of Westminster Abbey. Printed in 1482, Caxton's edition of Ranulph Higden's Polycronicon, written around 1344, is a universal history concentrating on Britain. It was translated into English by John of Trevisa in 1387 and was a popular text that was widely copied and read. Caxton's early modern translation expands the chronicle to his own time. The… Read More