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

272 272 c   WOOLF, VIRGINIA. The Years. 8vo, publisher’s green cloth, spine titles gilt; pictorial dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, spine panel tanned with creasing to head and small chip to foot touching imprint letters, spotting to flaps; mild foxing/toning to front and end matter. first edition . Kirkpatrick A22a. London:The Hogarth Press, 1937 [800/1,200] 273 c   ZAMIATIN, EUGENE. We. Translated from the Russian by Gregory Zilboorg. 8vo, publisher’s black cloth, gilt border and titles to front cover; gilt faded from spine, faint staining to front cover, slightly shaken, corners bumped with light exposure, rear cover with small abrasions; lacking the exceedingly rare dust jacket; ownership signature to rear pastedown. NewYork: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1925 [1,000/1,500] first edition , second printing , (March 1925). Suppressed upon its completion in 1921 by the Soviet censors, the manuscript then found its way to the US and published by Dutton in translation.A Russian edi- tion did not appear until 1988. Scarce surviving example with no copies traced at auction on ABPC or AE. END OF SALE 273