Description
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 329, [1] + 5 plates. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Endpapers toned. Binding somewhat dustsoiled. Booksellers label to front pastedown.
£120
FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. 329, [1] + 5 plates. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Endpapers toned. Binding somewhat dustsoiled. Booksellers label to front pastedown.
The first edition of Woolf's book-length essay on war and women's work and education, the non-fiction portion of was was originally conceived as a 'novel-essay' - the fiction portion having been published as The Years the previous year. Only about half of the first impression was issued as such in this form; the remaining sheets were bound in green cloth as part of the Uniform Edition five years later.