May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 271

Price Realized: $ 2,125
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
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. New York: George H. Doran Company, (1920)

Additional Details

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.