Sale 2508 - 19th & 20th Century Literature, May 14, 2019

270 c   WOOLF, VIRGINIA. Orlando. Illustrated. 8vo, publisher’s blue cloth gilt- and blind-stamped, faint mottling to rear board, small blemish to front board; dust jacket, spine panel darkened with short closed tears at corner folds and small chip at foot, corners clipped, folds rubbed; unobtrusive bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown. NewYork: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1928) [300/400] first american trade edition , “ first regular edition ” stated . Somewhat elusive in intact and unrepaired dust jacket. One of 6350 copies. Kirkpatrick A11c. 270 271 271 c   WOOLF, VIRGINIA. The Voyage Out. 8vo, publisher’s green cloth, spine tips fraying slightly, bottom corners bumped with exposure; dust jacket, few tape repairs on verso, tear at head of spine panel with some title letters lost, extending into front panel touching two more letters, short chip at spine panel foot, soiling to rear panel; front hinge tender, pp. 86-87 with offsetting from laid in slip. NewYork: George H. Doran Company, (1920) [2,000/3,000] first american edition of woolf ’ s first book in the rare dust jacket . Woolf revised the text from the 1915 English First Edition published by Duckworth & Co. for this American one. A limited number of sheets from this printing were sent to England for a second edition by Duckworth and, subsequently, the first Hogarth Press edition in 1929. Just two copies of this edition in the jacket traced at auction. Kirkpatrick A1b.