Search Results: Titles starting with V from Second Wind Books LLC

New York: Frank Hallman, 1974. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Gilt white cloth. A fine copy, without printed dust jacket, as issued. First edition in this format of two pieces first published in CARAVEL and THE DOUBLE DEALER. This edition, designed by Ronald Gordon and printed at The Stinehour Press, consists of five hundred numbered copies, this being number 60.

Iowa City, IA / Shallotte, NC: Making Waves Press, 2022. First edition. Fine.. Perfect bound, pictorial wrappers. Fully illustrated in pictorial assemblages by the author. Fine, as new. First edition. "The Value of Laughter" by Virginia Stephen (Woolf) was originally published on 16 August 1905 in The Guardian. 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  for several decades. In 2012, Hankins founded a press of her own, Making Waves Press.

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.

Poughkeepsie, NY: Vassar College Art Gallery, 1984. First edition. Pictorial and printed wrappers. First edition. 47,[1]pp. Twenty plates, four in color, several full-page. Exhibition catalogue prepared to accompany an exciting presentation of Bell's work, many items for this exhibition were found to be in the collections of Vassar alums or faculty. Foreword and Introduction by Gallery Director Joan Mickelson Lukach; an extensive essay, "Of Granite and Rainbow: Vanessa Bell & Her Art," by Susan P. Casteras, Yale Center for British Art. Footnotes, chronology, and Checklist of the Exhibition, which included 55 items. Very good or better.

Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press, 1978. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and pictorial boards, printed spine label. First edition, thus. Number 25 of only 50 copies numbered and signed by Everson, handbound in boards by Earle Gray, and containing a holograph poem signed and dated "Holy Thursday, 1978" by the author, bound before the dedication. Very fine, in a fine acetate dust wrapper. 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. There has been interest in reviving this press of late, and relocating it to the east coast.

Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Cloth and decorated boards, paper spine label. First edition, limited issue. Number 26 of one hundred fifty copies, signed and numbered by the author, of the third installment of his autobiography. 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.

New York: [Open Road, 2014. First edition. Fine. Thick octavo. Illustrated wrappers. 615,[1] pp. Thirty-one pages of black & white photos, index. Inscribed and signed by the author on the title page. Fine.

London: Martin Secker, 1930. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Publisher's original brown cloth with gilt spine. First English edition. Lovely old UK bookseller's label on rear pastedown, closed fray at top of spine, else a very good copy, lacking the dust jacket.

New York and London: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975. First American edition. Small quarto. Pale green cloth, gilt spine. 128 pp. 136 black and white illustrations. Bibliography, chronology, list of illustrations, and index. Dust speckled at top edge, remainder mark at bottom, else a very good copy in a good, unclipped dust jacket with a tiny closed tear at bottom edge of rear panel. First American edition. Woolf is honored today as the "author of the most brilliantly argued exposition of the female standpoint in modern times, A Room of One's Own," -- from the publisher.

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.

Norfolk, Connecticut: New Directions, 1942. First edition. Small octavo. Blue cloth, spine stamped in blue. 169,[1]pp. Frontispiece portrait by Man Ray for "Harper's Bazaar." Ink personal inscription from the author to a friend on the front free endpaper. Selective bibliography and index. Very good or better, pictorial dust jacket by the celebrated designer Alvin Lustig with chips and closed tears, good. First edition. The second volume in New Directions' "Makers of Modern Literature Series." Daiches  (1912 - 2005) was a Scottish literary historian and literary critic, scholar and writer. He wrote extensively on English and Scottish literature and culture. The inscription to his friend and fellow literary historian and critic Harry T. Moore reads: "For Harry Moore / with many memories / of conversation & drink / at Marios & elsewhere / -- and hopes of more / & better of both in / the unpredictable world / after the deluge / David Daiches / April 1943." Daiches' signature is not often seen. "Mr.… Read More

Oxford: Shakespeare Head / Blackwell Publishers, 1992. Octavo. Black cloth. xlv,[1],215,[3]pp. Edited by S. P. Rosenbaum. Facsimiles, errata sheet laid in. Fine, in an about fine dust jacket.   First edition. The presumed lost manuscript of A Room of One's Own lay virtually unknown for nearly fifty years before being rediscovered by Professor Rosenbaum. A Room of One's Own follows the general outline of Women & Fiction yet, as the manuscript shows, almost every sentence of the book was revised in the course of its composition.  .

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.

[New York: Lipper / Viking, 2000. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth and pictorial boards. [12],195,[1]pp. Ten black and white photographs. Short bibliography. About fine, in a lovely dust jacket with a vignette cut to expose the portrait of Woolf on the upper boards. First American edition, issued in the "Penquin Lives" series. "Virginia Woolf's life as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group has captured the imagination of millions. Now Nigel Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West -- one of Woolf's closest friends and sometime lover -- threads his personal reminiscences through the narrative of her life. In so doing, he paints an astonishing portrait of one of the most remarkable women in history. Nicolson recalls childhood times with Woolf: from her walks around his ancestral home as she planned Orlando to her writing of the modern classics Mrs. Dalloway and A Room of One's Own. [Nicolson's] Virginia Woolf probes keenly her stance on women's… Read More

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

[New York]: Thames & Hudson, 2011. Grey cloth boards, blind-stamped dolphins, silk page-mark. Frontispiece portrait. Forty-six half-tone illustrations. Fine, in a near fine dust jacket with the publisher's sticker on upper panel, as usual.  First American edition. "This gripping new account offers an ideal introduction to both the life and work of Virginia Woolf. It considers each of Woolf's novels in context, traces the contentious course of her 'afterlife,' and shows why, seventy years after her death, she continues to haunt and inspire us" -- from the upper book flap. A beautifully produced book. .

Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005. First edition. Fine. Octavo. Green cloth boards, gilt spine. First edition. 124,[2] pp. Fine, without dust jacket as issued. Virginia Woolf in 90 Minutes offers a concise, expert account of Virginia Woolf's life and ideas, and explains their influence on literature and on humankind's struggle to understand their place in the world. This edition is part of Strathern's series of brief biographical studies of the world's great writers and philosophers; it brings their lives and ideas to the forefront in an entertaining and accessible fashion. A list of Woolf's chief works, a chronology of her life and times, and recommended reading is included.

New York City: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2004. Octavo. Decorated green and white stiff card, paper label, full fold-in flaps. First edition. Frontispiece color illustration, color plates. [8],67,[5] pp. Excerpt of 1928 letter to Virginia Woolf as prologue; Introduction by Sackville-West's son, Nigel Nicolson; Notes, and Works Cited. Collection of forty-five books, journals, and manuscripts, with extensive descriptions and essays. The bookplate of the noted Hogarth Press /Bloomsbury Group collector William Beekman is affixed under front flap, else a fine copy.