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98 WOOLF, Virginia. The Years. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1937 An exceptional copy First edition, first impression, rarely encountered in such lovely condition. This is Woolf’s penultimate novel, also the most popular during her lifetime. She began writing it in the early 1930s as a novel-essay titled The Pargiters , and subsequently divided it into two parts: the fiction portion became The Years and the essay portion the basis for Three Guineas . Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Housed in a custom black quarter morocco and red cloth box. A fine copy, fresh and clean, the jacket sharp and bright, exceptionally well-preserved. ¶ Kirkpatrick A22a; Woolmer 423. £4,500 [153306]
99 YEATS, W. B. The Tower. London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928 Yeats’s key collection, in a near-fine jacket First edition, first impression, in a superb jacket, of what is generally accepted to be Yeats’s single most important collection. The Tower includes many of Yeats’s greatest and most enduring poems, including “Sailing to Byzantium”, “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen”, “Leda and the Swan”, and “Among School Children”. Allan Wade notes that a first edition of 2,000 copies was published 14 February 1928. A second impression was required the following month and a third impression the following year. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover in gilt, fore and lower edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Housed in a green morocco-backed folding box. Binding design by T. Sturge Moore. Extremities slightly bumped, front cover very slightly bowed, gilt dull in places, browning to endpapers, foxing to edges; a very good copy, in an exceedingly smart jacket, slight darkening to spine panel and a few very minor nicks to extremities. ¶ Wade 158. £5,000 [152478]
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