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London: Hogarth Press / Chatto & Windus, Random House. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1999. Hardcover. 070116879X . A 1999 facsimile edition of the original, limited 1919 edition. In her short story, Virginia Woolf presents musings set against the marvelous Kew Gardens, just outside London. With decorations on every page in black & white by her sister, Vanessa Bell. This facsimile even offers a duplicated limitation page, purporting to limit "this edition" to 500 numbered copies. --- In brown and white paper-covered boards with Vanessa Bell art in color to front panel. Unpaginated (about 50 pp.). Volume lacks a dust jacket. --- An about-Near Fine copy with ever-so-slight back cover soiling, else clean, tightly-bound, and bright.; Small Quarto - 9 to 11 in. tall; c.50 pp pages .

Chatto & Windus/Random House, 1999-01-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hogarth Press, London, 1927. Hardcover. Good. Large 8vo, hardcover. No dj. Good+ condition. Paper backstrip perished; covers lightly soiled. Contents clean, no marking or writing. Binding secure. A lovely collaboration between Virginia Woolf and her sister. First published in 1919, the sisters reprised the joint effort. From the NYPL: "By 1927, the Woolfs� [Hogarth Press] printing capabilities had improved, and Bell agreed to revisit the project in the form of a large-paper limited edition. She designed head- and tailpieces plus other decorations for each page, as well as covers that are emblematic of Bell�s style."

The Hogarth Press, Printed & Engraved By Herbert Reiach, Limited , UK, 1927, 1927 Hard Cover. No Jacket. Signed by Author. HB NODustJacket, 1927, Limited NUMBERED Edition, #120/500 Copies, Third English Edition, & 1st Illustrated Edition, Brown, white green, grey decorated Illustrated Boards lettered in Brown slightly Warped Cover & with chips tears to Extremities, Spinestrip MISSING, but tiny Spine Piece still there unattached, VG-/G00D-, SOLD AS-IS, NODJ, Light soil Back, Corner cover tiny ding Tear, Interior Relatively Nice tight , light wear, Fox, with tiny corner DINGS to bottom edge pgs, Unpaginated, INNER Hinges Starting causing LOOSENESS to some PAGES, . This story, was first Originally published by the Hogarth Press in 1919, & was Woolfs First Individual Volume Published ). Signed by Author. F. Hard Cover.

London: Hogarth Press, 1927. Third Edition/First Thus. Hardcover. Near Fine in Fine Drop-Spine Archival Box. Third Edition/First Thus. Hardcover. Binding is housed in a clamshell box covered in sky blue buffalo skin and light blue Stonehenge paper. Leather spine embroidered with author's name in pale pink cotton floss. Trays covered in pale yellow handmade paper and lined with light grey Novasuede. Exquisitely bound in a manner and style reflecting Vanessa Bell's illustrations. First fully illustrated edition, hand-numbered by Virginia Woolf, this being number 48 of 500. This was a collaboration between author and artist which was deeply important to Woolf, who saw it as a means of "binding herself to her sister" (Willis, p31). "Bell's designs for this edition occur on every page of text, acting as borders, punctuation, bridges, or disruptions into the type-set text. In contrast, the first and second editions of 1919 only had a frontispiece and finispiece by Bell, and she was not satisfied with… Read More

Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919. Second Edition. Soft cover. Second Edition. Soft cover. Woolf, Virginia. KEW GARDENS. Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1919. Second Edition. (500 copies printed). 8vo. 16 pp. With two engravings by Vanessa Bell, in the original decorated wrappers, which have had some excellent edge restoration. White printed label to upper wrapper. Not in fact printed at, but for, the Hogarth Press by Richard Madley of Whitfield Street, possibly in consequence of Vanessa Bell's disappointment at the first edition's rendering of her interior art, which had, at 150 copies, been well enough subscribed to put forth a second. A lovely example. "Leonard Woolf thought that these wrappers were not from the Omega Workshops but were copied from the first edition by someone else". Kirkpatrick and Clarke A3b. Woolmer 7.