ORLANDO A BIOGRAPHY

by Woolf, Virginia:

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New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928.. Large octavo. Gilt cloth, t.e.g. Frontis and plates. Frontis. Trace of minor foxing to front endsheets, a few very minor smudges to cloth, otherwise about fine. First edition, preceding the UK trade edition. Copy #554 of eight hundred numbered copies (of 861), signed by the author. Woolf's amazing fictitious four century transgender "biography" of an ageless being named Orlando who starts life as an Elizabethan nobleman, then eventually transforms into a woman poet of vast social insight. It was written for, and inspired by, Woolf's friend and lover, Vita Sackville- West, to whom the book was dedicated and who appears as Orlando at various life- stages in several of the book's photographs. It has been described as "the longest love letter ever written."