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	VIRGINIA WOOLF : MONDAY OR TUESDAY. Richmond : By Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1921. First edition : [one of 1,000 copies]. Seven short stories and pieces, including the title-story, as well as "A Haunted House", "Blue and Green", "Kew Gardens" and a revised version of "The Mark on the Wall". Cover design and four full-page woodcut illustrations by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961). Crown 8vo (20cm). (92),[ii],[2]pp. Illustrations. Original black and white boards, with brown cloth spine; lightly rubbed, a little worn at corners and slightly soiled; mild tanning of endpapers; slight offsetting from illustrations as usual, but a good copy of a fragile production. With the successive ownership inscriptions of E. M. W. - dated 2.8.21, Ann B. Twentyman - who died in 1933, and the noted artist and educationist Nan Youngman (1906-1995). Kirkpatrick A5a. Woolmer 17. £1,000 To purchase this book please contact ABA member Ash Rare Books at www.ashrare.com - mentioning the ABA website.	Featured Authors Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) By common consent one the great authors of the twentieth century. The original editions of her work, decorated so often by her sister, Vanessa Bell, are among the most haunting icons of the period. See all our Featured Authors

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	VIRGINIA WOOLF : THE DEATH OF THE MOTH AND OTHER ESSAYS. London : Hogarth Press, 1942. First edition. A collection of twenty-six essays, edited and introduced by Leonard Woolf. Includes "Street Haunting: A London Adventure"; "Middlebrow"; "Professions for Women"; "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid", as well as Woolf on Henry James, E. M. Forster, George Moore, etc. Demy 8vo (23cm). (158),[ii]pp. Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt; a little sunned; a few slight marks; some spotting, mainly of edges and endpapers, but a good copy in the fragile wartime dust-jacket - a Vanessa Bell design in black and white - a little nicked and with several small chips, but essentially complete and still attractive. Kirkpatrick A27. Woolmer 500. £125 To purchase this book please contact ABA member Ash Rare Books at www.ashrare.com - mentioning the ABA website.	Featured Subjects See all our Featured Subjects

	VIRGINIA WOOLF : THE MOMENT AND OTHER ESSAYS. London : Hogarth Press, 1947. First edition. "On Being Ill" and twenty-eight further essays - on William Congreve, Laurence Sterne, David Copperfield, Lewis Carroll, D. H. Lawrence, the art of fiction, American fiction, Ellen Terry, fishing, etc. Edited and introduced by Leonard Woolf. Post 8vo (21cm). (192)pp. Original maroon cloth, ruled and lettered across spine in gilt; a very good copy in the original Vanessa Bell dust-jacket - a pictorial design in pink and black - a little tanned and faded, lightly worn at head, and with a small hole and slight scuff to spine, a single short tear and a tiny nick. SOLD To purchase this book please contact ABA member Ash Rare Books at www.ashrare.com - mentioning the ABA website.	Featured Shops See all our Featured Shops

	VIRGINIA WOOLF : THE CAPTAIN’S DEATH BED AND OTHER ESSAYS. London : Hogarth Press, 1950. First British edition. A collection of twenty-five essays, edited and introduced by Leonard Woolf. Includes "Reviewing"; "Reading"; "The Cinema"; "Flying over London"; "Thunder at Wembley", as well as Woolf on Arnold Bennett, Joseph Conrad, Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Hardy, John Ruskin, Walter Sickert, Ivan Turgenev, Gilbert White, etc. Demy 8vo (21cm). (224)pp. Original red-brown cloth, lettered in gilt; top edge brown; spine a little sunned; a few tiny spots to endpapers, but a very good copy in the original Vanessa Bell dust-jacket - a design in lemon and black - just slightly toned at spine and with a single tiny nick, but also very good. Neat ownership inscription of R. W. Raines Jones. Kirkpatrick A30b. £200 To purchase this book please contact ABA member Ash Rare Books at www.ashrare.com - mentioning the ABA website.	Featured Maps See all our Featured Maps

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VIRGINIA WOOLF FIRST EDITIONS FROM ABA MEMBERS