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uncovering of the hoax by the Daily Mirror brought attention to the young Bloomsbury Group and their pacifist ideals. Octavo. Original brown quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, black and white woodcut to front cover designed by Vanessa Bell. No jacket issued. With 4 full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell, and 1 p. of publisher’s advertisements at end. Slight rubbing and soiling, toning to endpapers. A very good copy. ¶ Kirkpatrick A5; Woolmer 17. £3,750 [153738] 95 WOOLF, Virginia. Jacob’s Room. London: The Hogarth Press 1922 one of 40 advance copies for subscribers First edition, first impression, one of 40 “A” subscribers’ copies, with the part-printed limitation label on the front free endpaper completed in ink by Virginia Woolf and signed by her. These copies were issued in advance of the trade edition and were issued without dust jacket; they were given to active subscribers who had supported the press’s early publications. The recipient of this copy, Arthur Lindsay Dakyns (1883–1941)
was a barrister and occasional writer who had met VW as early as 1908 and was on friendly terms with E. M. Forster, Bertrand Russell, and J. M. Keynes. The publication of this, Woolf’s breakthrough third novel, marked the point at which Leonard and Virginia Woolf decided to take the Hogarth Press forward as a serious commercial publishing venture. The novel was “recognized, in its stunningly mischievous ellipses and its often absent protagonist, as a new development in the art of fiction; it was hailed by friends such as T. S. Eliot (‘you have freed yourself from any compromise between the traditional novel and your original gift’) and attacked by, for example, John Middleton Murry for its lack of plot . . . From this time onwards Woolf was regarded as one of the principal exponents of modernism” ( Oxford Companion to English Literature ). Octavo. Original yellow cloth, printed paper label on spine. Housed in a dark blue morocco-backed folding case by the Chelsea Bindery. Contents a little spotted and rather shaken, spine label slightly rubbed. Very good. ¶ Kirkpatrick A6a; Woolmer 26. £25,000 [65828]
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