London, The Hogarth Press, 1972
Inscribed presentation copy. Inscribed by the author: 'inscribed for Ina by Quentin Bell November 3 1972'.
The first edition Quentin Bell's two-volume biography of his aunt Virginia Woolf presented in the custom slipcase. The fourth impression of volume one was specifically printed for the boxed set, bearing the same publication date as the first impression of volume 2.
First boxed edition; 2 vols (volume one: first edition, fourth impression; volume 2: first edition, first impression), 8vo; volume 2 inscribed by the author to 'Ina'; both vols illustrated with black-and-white plates including portrait frontispieces, map endpapers, family tree in vol one; publisher's pale grey cloth, gilt lettering to spines, original unclipped dust jackets (priced £3), both with light sunning; presented in slightly soiled pictorial pale blue paper-covered slipcase; a bright, clean set.
Kirkpatrick B15a - B16.
The first edition Quentin Bell's two-volume biography of his aunt Virginia Woolf presented in the custom slipcase. The fourth impression of volume one was specifically printed for the boxed set, bearing the same publication date as the first impression of volume 2.
First boxed edition; 2 vols (volume one: first edition, fourth impression; volume 2: first edition, first impression), 8vo; volume 2 inscribed by the author to 'Ina'; both vols illustrated with black-and-white plates including portrait frontispieces, map endpapers, family tree in vol one; publisher's pale grey cloth, gilt lettering to spines, original unclipped dust jackets (priced £3), both with light sunning; presented in slightly soiled pictorial pale blue paper-covered slipcase; a bright, clean set.
Kirkpatrick B15a - B16.
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