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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.

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, 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.

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.

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

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

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.

New York: Grolier Club, 2004. Fine, as new.. Octavo. Decorated green & yellow wave pattern. Black and white illustrations. Bookplate tipped onto turn-in flap of front panel. 54pp. Fine.  First edition, limited to 1500 copies printed at the Thornwillow Press. From the collection of the noted Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, Bloomsbury collector, William Beekman. As of 2019, a collection of 153 items resides as the "William Beekman Collection of Virginia Woolf and Her Circle," at the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature, The New York Public Library. "This collection of Virginia Woolf books, correspondence, photographs, and other material was assembled by collector William Beekman over the course of several decades. Many of the books within this collection were originally owned, or gifted, by Virginia Woolf and Leonard Woolf." - NYPL Archives & Manuscripts.

Mecklenburgh Square, London: The Hogarth Press, 1941. Very Good.. Publisher's bright blue cloth, lettered in gilt. 256 pp. 7⅛ x 4¾ in. White dust jacket printed in black, designed by Vanessa Bell, with "Vanessa" in the bottom right corner rather than the usual "V.B." Boards clean, spine has sunned line at crown where it sat proud from the dust wrapper; minor shelf-wear, offsetting to endsheets, ink ownership signature on front free endpaper with the date "July, 1941" which is the date of publication. Light crease on title page. Rear endsheets have a book review by Woolf's friend Desmond MacCarthy in the Observer, another laid in by Richard Church in an unidentified publication, and yet another in Time and Tide 17 May 1941 by Lord David Cecil entitled "A Note of Virginia Woolf." Dust jacket has one chip near top of spine, tiny closed tear on top edge of rear panel, and the usual smudges a white dust jacket would have. From the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator,… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1933. First edition. Vanessa Bell.. Octavo. Cloth, gilt stamped spine. First American edition. Pinkish brown cloth, lettered in silver, edges trimmed; white endpapers with brown line drawings by Vanessa Bell printed on each. Frontispiece portrait of Flush, two further full page portraits in text. Gift inscription on border of rear pastedown, else very good.  Woolf's brilliant biography of a dog; not just any dog, but the poet Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spaniel, Flush. Flush not only played an active part in human life and inspired poetry, but was himself a dog estimated by all who knew him as a dog of worth and character well deserving celebration.  "FLUSH is only by way of a joke. I was so tired after THE WAVES, that I lay in the garden and read the Browning letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life. I wanted to play a joke on Lytton [Strachey] -- it was to parody him. But then it grew too long, and I… Read More

Iowa City, IA / Shallotte, NC: Making Waves Press, 2021. First edition. Fine.. Oblong. Perfect bound, pictorial wrappers in the colors violet, white, & green in homage to the Suffragist Movement. Fully illustrated in pictorial assemblages by the author. Fine, as new. First edition. Centenary cinematic edition. "Virginia Woolf's comic 'counterblast' takes on male privilege," -- from the cover. The "take" refers to a "public debate about the limits of women's intelligence and creativity ... between Woolf and Desmond McCarthy (and Arnold Bennett) in the New Statesman 'Letters to the Editor' pages in October 1920" -- page [4-5]. "A Society" was published in MONDAY OR TUESDAY  in 1921 by the Hogarth Press. Leslie Kathleen Hankins is a professor at Cornell College, Iowa, and a book artist. She is a former president of the International Virginia Woolf Society and has been presenting and publishing on Virginia Woolf and the cinema for several decades. In 2012, Hankins founded a press of her own, Making… Read More

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1999. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth and boards. 225pp. Four leaves of black & white photos. Appendix, family tree, notes, bibliography, and index. Near fine in a similar pictorial dust jacket. First American edition. "[E]minent psychiatrist Peter Dally explores the darker side of Virginia Woolf. Bringing together his knowledge of as a doctor with his lifelong fascination with Woolf's life and work, he sheds light on the depression that tormented her adult years" -- from the dust jacket.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1945. Small octavo. Cloth. First American edition. Fine in very good, or better, lightly edgeworn dust jacket. .