Estimate: | £200 - £300 |
Hammer price: | £180 |
WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). Three Guineas. London: The Hogarth Press, 1938. 8vo (183 x 120mm). Half title, 5 half tone plates. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt (some very light staining), dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell (repairs on verso, backstrip faded and with small piece torn away from head). FIRST EDITION of the author’s feminist and pacifist polemic. Kirkpatrick A23a; Woolmer 440. With 9 other books by Virginia Woolf, namely Jacob’s Room (London, November 1922, original cloth, lacking the dust-jacket, second impression), The Years (TWO COPIES, London, 1937, original cloth, both lacking the dust-jacket), Roger Fry. A Biography (London, November 1940, original cloth, lacking the dust-jacket, third impression), Between the Acts (London, 1941, original cloth, lacking the dust-jacket), A Haunted House (London, 1943, original cloth, lacking the dust-jacket), A Haunted House (London, June 1944, original cloth, dust-jacket, third impression), The Moment and Other Essays (London, 1947, original cloth, lacking the dust-jackets) and A Writer’s Diary (London, 1953, original cloth, dust-jacket), all FIRST EDITIONS except where indicated. Provenance: From the Library of the late Sir George Engle. (10)