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Virginia Woolf. On Being Ill. Richmond: The Hogarth Press, 1930. First separate edition, limited to 250 copies, this being number 47. Signed by the author on the limitation. Octavo. 36 pages. Original blue-green cloth boards with vellum backstrip lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers, edges untrimmed. Original illustrated dust jacket.This first separately published edition of Woolf's essay on illness contains a slightly altered text than that which was first printed in the New Criterion in January 1926 and Forum in April. The text as it appears here was later reprinted as part of the collection The Moment and Other Essays (1947).
Condition: Board edges faintly soiled. Initial and terminal blanks faintly offset, pencil notations to the same; first two leaves uncut. Internally clean and tight. Dust jacket with moderate edgewear, light chipping at corner folds, minor loss at head, 25 mm closed tear to front panel, rear panel and verso foxed, somewhat toned, front flap rubbed. Near fine book in a very good dust jacket.
References: Kirkpatrick A14; Woolmer 245.
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2023 November 29 - 30 Rare Books Signature® Auction #6278 (go to Auction Home page)
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