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Lot 354
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$2,375
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WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). On Being Ill. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1930.
8vo. Half-title; corrected limitation page (see below). Original vellum-backed pale blue-green cloth-covered boards, uncut;slipcase.
FIRST SEPARATE LIMITED EDITION, one of 250 copies SIGNED BY VIRGINIA WOOLF. KIRKPATRICK'S PRELIMINARY STATE with the limitation corrected from 125 to 250 on p.[5], and with "out of series" note in Leonard Woolf's hand in purple ink in place of the number. "The preliminary state probably comprises 25 copies which were distributed free, probably without a dust jacket" (Kirkpatrick A14). Woolf's essay was first published in the New Criterion in January 1926.