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New York: Davis & Long Company, 1980. Tan stapled, printed wrappers. First edition. 44 pp. Frontispiece portrait, thirteen full-page b&w plates. Introduction, chronology, and cataloguing by Richard Shone. Catalogue prepared for a retrospective exhibition, produced in association with Anthony D'Offay, Ltd., and held in New York City 18 April - 24 May, 1980. From the library of Bloomsbury collector William Beekman, with his bookplate affixed to the verso of the upper wrapper. Fine.

London: Cecil Woolf, 2000. First edition. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 24 pp., 8 unnumbered pages of 10 color plates, 6 b&w. Glossary, conspectus, bibliography, and notes. Crease on lower wrapper fore-tip, else about fine.  No other copies currently available in commerce [March 2024]. First edition. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series No. 27. Virginia Woolf was an amateur bookbinder who bound or re-covered books throughout her adult life, both for herself and for others. It is not known what motivated her to engage in bookbinding, but she was a publisher who set type and sewed the hand-printed books of her publishing house. She may have done binding as a creative outlet as her books exhibited enthusiasm rather than skill. OCLC: 46648822.

London: Cecil Woolf, 2000. First edition. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 28 pp., 4 unnumbered pages of 8 color plates; one b&w half-tone photo, one illustration by Dora Carrington. Crease on lower wrapper fore-tip, small binding pinch at lower edge of spine, else about fine.  No other copies currently available in commerce [March 2024]. First edition. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series No. 26. Asham House in East Sussex was the country retreat for the Woolfs from 1912 to 1919. Standing hidden from the road, it played host to some of the most influential writers, artists and intellectuals of the time, and was the setting for Virginia Woolf's short story, "A Haunted House." The house was demolished in 1994 to make way for an extended landfill. OCLC: 47883271.

[Southport, UK]: Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain, 2003. First, limited edition. Yellow card stapled wrappers, paper label. 28 pp. Published in a limited edition of 300 copies, of which 50 copies have been signed by the author on the title page. This is the fourth in the Virginia Woolf Society's printed  Annual Virginia Woolf Birthday Lectures. A fine, unmarked copy of an elegantly presented lecture that makes clear that Woolf never wrote a sentence that didn't have a connection or ramification in the greater world experience of her imagined characters. Scarce. .

London: Cecil Woolf, 2001. First edition. Yellow card wraps printed and decorated in red, green, and blue. First edition. Cover design by Robert Campling. 21 x 14.5 cm. 28 pp. The Bloomsbury Heritage Series No. 29; Jean Moorcroft Wilson, general editor. Printed on blue paper; illustrated by Sandra Lello throughout. No other copies currently available in commerce [May 2024].  Illustrator's name misspelled on upper wrapper and title page, else fine.    .