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Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1998. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. Number 12 of only one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author on the colophon. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. Number 82 of only one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author on the colophon. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. Number 25 of one hundred twenty-five numbered copies, specially bound, numbered and signed by the author on the colophon. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002 in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 2000. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. Cloth and decorated boards. First edition, limited issue. Number 42 of only one hundred numbered copies, specially bound, and signed by the author on the colophon. Cover design by Barbara Martin. Fine, in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. Black Sparrow Press was a small independent publishing house focused on avant-garde literature. Established by John and Barbara Martin in 1966, in Los Angeles, and shuttered in 2002, in Santa Rosa. With the help of typographer and printer Graham Mackintosh, the Press was responsible for drawing attention to Charles Bukowski and his literary work. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1928. Blue cloth.  First U.S. edition.  A few nicks at spine ends, upper edges of boards very lightly sunned, else a very good copy in a somewhat dust-smudged dust jacket with a few chips at the edges, price intact. "'Our morals have gone, our prepossession for Five Towns statistics is rapidly passing, what then is left to us? The most brilliant book of criticism since Virginia Woolf's Common Reader* suggests the answer. I mean The Strange Necessity of Rebecca West. Whoever may be at the head of male English letters since Thomas Hardy's death, there is no doubt at all that Mrs. Woolf and Miss West divide the feminine crown between them ... It is not in fact an exaggeration if one claims that The Strange Necessity and The Common Reader of Virginia Woolf are the two finest volumes of literary criticism written by women in the English language. I, at least, am unaware of their rivals'" -- Hugh Walpole, quoted, in part, from the turn-ins. * The Common Reader… Read More

New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1932. First American Edition, first printing. Near fine. Octavo. Publisher's dark blue diagonal fine rib cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt to upper board and spine. Lovely creme yellow endsheets. 432 pp., printing code "(I)" on page 432, as called for. Dust jacket: wove paper, front and spine with black background, back and flaps with white background; front: two lines in white, drawing printed in black, white, and moderate greenish blue, of a country home and garden; both bindings and dust jacket "A" of two variants (which have no priority), as noted in Garrison. Near fine, in an about fine dust jacket with a few tiny chips at spine edge and at top and bottom.  "An Appreciation of Edith Wharton," by William Lyon Phelps occupies the entirety of the lower panel of the dust jacket. Welcome to the Gilded Age of New York! The Gods Arrive is the continued story of a pair of lovers introduced in Wharton's Hudson River Bracketed: one a troubled writer,… Read More

New York: Friedmans', 1920. Paper boards, paper label to spine and upper board. Frontispiece portrait. A few finger smudges to boards, labels a trifle worn, very good or slightly better.  First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies, this being No. 52. The pioneering attempt, by the innovative publisher/bookseller.

New York: St. Martin's Press, 2008. Fine/Fine. Octavo. Red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Signed on the title page in bookseller's presence. A fine, as new copy in a pristine pictorial dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Wilder's second novel is set in 1903 at a health resort in Badenweiler, Germany. Jeremy Webb, a young concert violinist of the Cleveland Orchestra, has had a nervous breakdown onstage and is sent to the resort in an effort to restore his equilibrium. While casting about for his sanity he encounters a devastatingly beautiful fellow inmate, Mrs. Clara Mulpas, who he decides will fall for his line - she doesn't. She has sworn off men and is adamantly impervious to his suit. Wilder credits Anton Chekhov's short stories for his inspiration. I personally don't remember Chekhov divulging  a  love interest's constipation but I concede I haven't read his entire oeuvre.

Sauk City, Wisconsin: Arkham House, 1967. First American edition. Black cloth, gilt spine. xxi,222 pp. First American edition, reproduced by offset from the British edition by Arthur Barker, Ltd., published in the same year. Fine, unmarked copy in near fine dust jacket designed by Frank Utpatel with a lightly sunned spine and small rub near the toe of spine.  "The time is the end of the twentieth century. The story begins with the suicide of a renowned scientist, moves rapidly to the discovery of gigantic prehistorically inscribed blocks of stone two miles beneath the surface of the earth, and soon involves Professor Gilbert Austin in an incredible conflict with the Tsathogguans -- the invisible mind parasites that menace the civilized world, particularly the most briliant of men and women." -- from the publisher. JOSHI 92.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition. Edited by Sandra Braman, preface by Ed Dorn. Number 17 of one hundred deluxe, numbered copies. Fine, in a fine acetate dust wrapper as issued. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979. Cloth and boards, gilt spine. Black and white photo illustrations. A fine, unmarked copy in a lightly rubbed dust jacket. First American edition. Mixing personal and literary history, Lehmann writes of his friendship and partnership with Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. In 1931 he was hired as a "trainee manager" at the age of 24, left and later returned as a partner and manager.  A friend of the Woolf's nephew, Julian Bell, Lehmann was a family as well as a business insider. Essential reading for any admirer of Virginia Woolf and/or the Hogarth Press.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1927. First edition. Very good.. Gilt cloth. Bookplate scar on front pastedown, otherwise a very good copy, without the uncommon dust jacket. First edition. Essays concerning Jonson, Hazlitt, Stevenson, Butler, and Conrad, among others. According to Woolmer, one of 1520 copies printed, of which 350 copies were later pulped; according to Luedeking & Edmonds, only 1000 copies were printed. WOOLMER 153. L&E A24a.

London: Victor Gollancz, Ltd. / Left Book Club Edition, 1939. Pink paper over boards, printed in black. Foreword by the author. Spine very slightly cocked, darkening at spine, text block uniformly tanned as a result of the poor quality of the paper, crown of spine rubbed, spot on upper panel, else a good copy. First edition of this book in this format and binding. The second of Woolf's political essays written during Europe's tumultuous 1930s. The directors and the publisher of the Left Book Club, whose titles state on their covers: NOT FOR SALE TO THE PUBLIC, were uncertain about publishing this book to their club members. It was the first of their titles to openly criticize the Soviet Union, and Stalin particularly, through Woolf's condemnation of the Soviet regime's autocratic suppression of intellectuals and personal freedom. In Woolf's foreword he states in full:  "This book was written before the conclusion of the treaty between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany and before the outbreak of war.… Read More

London: The Hogarth Press, 1979. Near fine. Red cloth, title stamped in gilt. Introduction by Ian Parsons, Woolf's colleague when the Hogarth Press joined Chatto & Windus, and the husband of the woman, Margaret Tulip (Trekkie) Ritchie Parsons, with whom he fell in love after the death of his wife Virginia in March, 1941. Neat bookseller's label affixed to the pastedown, some minor offsetting to endpapers, top edge a bit dusty, else near fine in a very good dust jacket, lightly toned at edges, and designed by Trekkie Ritchie (Parsons). First new edition of The Wise Virgins, first published during the outbreak of World War I in 1914. This was Leonard Woolf's second novel, published two years after the author's marriage to Virginia Stephen, and begun during their honeymoon. The autobiographical elements of the book are well documented in Quentin Bell's Virginia Woolf A Biography, in which Bell quotes from Virginia Woolf's Diary, 31 January 1915, "it's a remarkable book: very bad in parts; first rate… 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

Paris: Librairie Stock Delamain et Boutelleau, 1929. First French Edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers.  xii, 240pp. Roman traduit de l'anglais par S. David; Préface de André Maurois. All leaves unopened; a very good, clean and bright copy preserved in an acetate cover.  First French translation. Edition limited to 2700 numbered copies, this being № 262, printed on Alfa Satinè paper; from the collection Le Cabinet Cosmopolite, 31. In his preface, Maurois states his great admiration for Woolf whose work affected him profoundly. Comparing her style favorably with that of the Impressionists, he writes: "Virginia Woolf goes beyond Impressionism with this vision she has of the beauty and grandeur of life considered in its simplest acts." [Cataloguer's translation]. . Kirkpatrick & Clarke D22a.

London: Hogarth Press, 1966. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine. Duncan Grant:. Gilt purple cloth boards. Frontispiece and five additional illustrations by Duncan Grant. A faint trace of foxing to endsheets, otherwise a near fine, bright copy, without printed dust jacket, as issued. From the famed collection of Bloomsbury/Hogarth Press collector William Beekman. Essential to a complete Virginia Woolf/Hogarth collection.   First separate edition in book form (4000 printed). "Foreword: Mr. Wallace Hildick, when examining the MS of Virginia Woolf's MRS DALLOWAY, now in the British Museum, discovered the short children's story which is here published under the title NURSE LUGTON'S GOLDEN THIMBLE. The story appears suddenly in the middle of the text of the novel, but has nothing to do with it. It was in fact written for Virginia Woolf's niece Ann Stephen when she, as a child, was on a visit to her aunt in the country. The story was first published, with an explanatory note by Mr. Hildick, in THE TIMES… Read More

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. First edition. Tall octavo. Printed blue wrapper. Fine in slightly frayed proof dust jacket. Uncorrected page proofs of the first U.S. edition, edited by Anne Olivier Bell and assisted by Andrew McNeillie. A laid in sheet corrects the assertion on the upper wrapper, but not the proof dust jacket, that Quentin Bell contributed an Introduction to this volume. He did so for the prior volume, not this volume.     This, the second volume of Woolf's diaries, covers a crucial period in Woolf's development as a writer as it records the successful completion of her two best known works, To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931), as well as the magnificent Orlando: A Biography (1928). Additionally, Woolf conveys her satisfaction with her increasing financial security and social assurance, and reveals the happiness and support she found in her relationship with Vita Sackville-West. .

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980. 1st Edition. Soft cover. Fine. Printed wrappers, paper label. Uncorrected page proofs of the first American edition, edited by Anne Olivier Bell and Andrew McNeillie. Edges and spine sunned, otherwise fine with promo sheet affixed inside front wrapper which states, "The third part of the five-volume Woolf diary, invaluable for its documentation the writing of TO THE LIGHTHOUSE and THE WAVES." 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall.

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