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20th century British & Irish art. Including property from the Reader's Digest Association Inc.
London: Christie's, 2004. Glossy card covers. pp 275. Extensively illustrated in colour and b&w. Fine copy. Includes works by Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Dora Carrington, Glyn Philpot and many others. 1.3 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51775More details Price: USD $18.95 -
A CHECKLIST OF THE HOGARTH PRESS 1917-1938, With a Short History of the Press by Mary E. Gaither
Edition: First edition
Andes, New York: Woolmer / Brotherson, 1976. Purple cloth. pp (xii), 177. B&w photos, index. Addenda sheet laid in. Yellowing to page edges, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51738More details Price: USD $18.95 -
A MARRIAGE OF TRUE MINDS: an intimate portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf.
Edition: First US issue
New York: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1977. Black cloth pp (xiv), 210. Many photos in text, index. Just a litt leaned, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51813More details Price: USD $16.95 -
A PASSAGE TO INDIA
Edition: First Canadian issue
Toronto: Longmans, Green, 1924. Octavo. Dark red ribbed cloth lettered in black. 325 pp + (3) pp UK (Edward Arnold) ads. Bruise to upper outer corner of front cover; light yellowing to page edges and endpapers; oval rubber stamp of a Canadian bookstore on front free endpaper (City Book & News Co., Vancouver), else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner names. Made from UK sheets with cancel title leaf. The Canadian issue not noted by Kirkpatrick A10a. The author's best known book, in an issue that is much scarcer than either the UK or US editions. Connolly Modern Movement #45. #25 in the Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the Twentieth Century series.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 39006More details Price: USD $350.00 -
ART MADE MODERN: Roger Fry's Vision of Art
London: Courtauld Gallery / Merrell Holberton, 1999. Glossy card covers. Pp 224. Colour reproductions. Index. Fine copy. 1.3 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51808More details Price: USD $24.95 -
BATTERSEA RISE
Edition: First printing
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1955. pp (4), 11 + one plate. Decorated paper boards with cover label, without printed jacket, as issued. Rubber stamped at bottom of verso of title leaf "Publisher's Gift Jan 12 1956". Slight wear to head of slightly darkened spine, fine otherwise. Privately issued as a New Year's greeting for friends of the publisher, issued 21 Dec., 1955, in an unknown number of copies. This is the first chapter, slightly condensed, of the forthcoming MARIANNE THORNTON. Kirkpatrick A33. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51908More details Price: USD $19.95 -
Bloomsbury and France: Art and Friends. With a Preface by Michael Holroyd
Edition: First Edition
New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Green cloth & mauve boards, photographic endpapers.pp xviii, 430 + colour plates; b&w illustrations in text, index. Fine in fine jacket. 1.4 kg parcel
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51751More details Price: USD $24.95 -
BLOOMSBURY IN SUSSEX. Illustrated by Barbara Childs
Edition: First edition
Alfriston, Sussex: Snake River Press, 2007. Printed boards. pp 96. Bound in ribbon marker. Fine copy. Pink jacket suuned on the spine, else fine. A Sussex Guide. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51763More details Price: USD $9.95 -
BLOOMSBURY PAST: a visual history
Edition: First edition
London: Historical Publications, 1993. Blue boards. pp 144. Many illustrations, index. Short tear in top margin of one leaf, else fine in fine jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51693More details Price: USD $13.95 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS. Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings...Edited and with a Preface by Mary Lyon.
Edition: First US printing
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. Black cloth and mauve boards. pp x, (223), [7]. Light sunning to upper & lower edges of boards, small private name label, else fine. Price-clipped dust jacket has slight surface rubbing to black front panel, else fine. 48 essays and reviews selected from 100 previously uncollected items.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 51913More details Price: USD $14.95 -
BOOKS AND PORTRAITS. Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Mary Lyon.
Edition: First printing
London: Hogarth Press, 1977. Salmon boards. Very light yellowing to page edges, else fine in fine jacket. 48 essays and reviews selected from 100 previously uncollected items.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51879More details Price: USD $24.95 -
CARLYLE'S HOUSE and other sketches.
Edition: First printing
London: Hesperus Press, 2003. Card covers with flaps (no hardcover). Foreword by Doris Lessing. Fine copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51954More details Price: USD $8.95 -
CATALOGUE OF I: Typefounders Specimens. II: Books Printed in Founts of Historic Importance, III: Works on Typefounding, Printing, & Bibliography, Offered for Sale
London: Birrell & Garnett, Ltd. Booksellers, 1928. Yellow card covers. Pp (12), (108). Facsimile title pages. Index. Four page Foreword by Graham Pollard. 252 items. Ends of backstrip chipped away, light cover soiling, page edges yellowed, VG otherwise. David Garnett and Francis Birrell operated a bookshop near the British Museum in the 1920s.
Condition: Binding: Softcover
Book ID: 51804More details Price: USD $50.00 -
FREDEGOND AND GERALD SHOVE. With a Preface by Ermengard Maitland
Colliers, Brookthorpe, Gloucester: Privately printed, 1952. Quarter bound in black cloth and patterned boards. pp (xviii), (47) + 5 photo plates. Edition of 250 copies. Some yellowing to page edges and endpapers, bubbling to pastedowns, rippling to frontispiece, boards just a little splayed, else VG. Pale grey jacket has yellowing, chips to spine ends and one corner, old internal cellotape repair to spine splits; fair. Autobiographical writings, quotes from her poetry, and a memoiir of her husband the economist Gerald Shove. Fredegond Shove, a cousin of Virginia Woolf, published three volumes of poetry (one with the Hogarth Press).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51925More details Price: USD $95.00 -
FRENCH, FLEMISH AND BRITISH ART
Edition: First US issue
New York: Coward - McCann, 1951. Light blue cloth. pp xii, 215 + b&w plates + errata slip. Index of artists. Page edges a little yellowed, small blue spot on front cover, else fine. Jacket has chips to spine ends and upper outer corner of front panel, short tear to rear panel, generally VG otherwise. Collects "Flemish Art* (1927), "Characteristics of French Art" (1932), and "Reflections on British Painting" (1943), but with fewer illustrations. Made from UK sheets.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51761More details Price: USD $19.95 -
GRANITE AND RAINBOW: essays
Edition: First US issue
New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1958. Blue-grey cloth. Narrow band of light sunning to upper and lower margins of covers and spine; small corner bump to front cover, very light yellowing to page edges, else fine.Pale blue jacket (art by Vanessa Bell) has slight yellowing to spine and flap folds, else fine, flap price intact. Kirkpatrick A34b. The last of four posthumous collections of Woolf's essays edited by Leonard Woolf. Actually scarcer than the UK edition (4000 vs 6000 copies).
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51857More details Price: USD $125.00 -
GRANITE AND RAINBOW: essays
Edition: First printing
London: Hogarth Press, 1958. Blue cloth. Slight yellowing to text paper and page edges yellowed, as usual; ink owner name at front; very small bruise to upper edge of rear cover; else fine. Price-clipped dust jacket (art by Vanessa Bell) has tanning to spine and flap folds, else fine. Kirkpatrick A34a. A nice copy. The last of four posthumous collections of Woolf's essays edited by Leonard Woolf.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51861More details Price: USD $150.00 -
GREY WETHERS: a romantic novel
Edition: Fiirst printing
London: Heinemann. Octavo, green linen grain cloth stamped in black. Spine has only faint sunning and quite minor rubbing at ends; tanning and slight foxing to page edges; yellowing to free endpaper; scattered light foxing in text; else a very nearly fine copy, no owner names, lacking the rare dust jacket. Her fourth novel, uncommon in first edition.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 40377More details Price: USD $75.00 -
GROWING: an autobiography of the years 1904 to 1911
Edition: First printing
London: Hogarth Press, 1961. Blue cloth. pp 256 + plates. Index. Book a bit leaned; else VG in VG price-clipped jacket.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover
Book ID: 51969More details Price: USD $14.95 -
INTERNATIONAL GOVERNMENT: two reports by L.S. Woolf prepared for the Fabian Research Department, together with a project by a Fabian committee for a supernatural authority that will prevent war
Edition: First edition
London: Fabian Society / Allen and Unwin, 1916. Blue cloth. pp 259, (11, ads). Index. Bit of yellowing to page edges and free endpapers, else a near fine copy.
Condition: Binding: Hardcover.
Book ID: 51856More details Price: USD $65.00