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Stockholm: Hugo Gebers, 1927. First edition. Crown octavo. Original wrappers printed in black & orange on cream. 248,[4] pp. Wraps, spine, and text clean and bright, a few nicks to edges due to the wraps extending beyond the text; many leaves unopened. Upper wrapper design reminiscent of Vanessa Bell & Duncan Grant period designs, lower wrapper advertises other titles available from the publisher. Very good to near fine.  WorldCat shows copies in only two libraries, and only one other comparable copy available in commerce. First Swedish edition. The translation is by Siri Thorngren-Olin. According to The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe, edited by Mary Ann Caws, and Nicola Luckhurst. London: Continuum Books, 2002. p. 10. "We are surprised to learn, for example, that the first complete translation of Woolf in book form was into Swedish." A rare distinction. KIRKPATRICK & CLARKE D191. OCLC: 840922585.

Richmond: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1922. First edition, first impression. Very Good.. Octavo. Original publisher's crocus-yellow cloth boards, white label lettered in black on spine. 290,14pp. 7½ x 5 in.  Published 27 October 1922, only 1200 copies printed at 7s. 6d. Boards are cleaner than usual having been kept in an acetate dust jacket in lieu of the Vanessa Bell wrapper, which is not present on this copy. Spine label darkened and chipped at left edge causing a small loss to the first letter in "JACOB." Top edge trimmed, others uncut. Some little edgewear, crown of spine may have been repaired. Interior clean and unmarked. Paris, December 1922 ownership inscription on first free endpaper of Edith Bone (1889-1975). Bone was a doctor, journalist, and translator who in 1949 was acting as a freelance correspondent in Budapest for the London Daily Worker when she was arrested and accused of spying. Bone was held in solitary confinement without trial for seven… Read More

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.

[Godalming, Surrey]: The Pendomer Press, 1978. First edition. Quarto. Brown cloth, gilt spine. First edition. 136 pp. Foreword by Wilfrid Blunt; black and white, and color plates and illustrations throughout the first book of Nash's work as an illustrator by his friend, John Lewis. Full bibliography by Simon Heneage. Noted collector's bookplate on front pastedown, private library notations, else a near fine copy in a very good dust jacket with two minor nicks to bottom edge of upper panel and a bit of residue of a label at the very lower edge of the rear panel.