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London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Signed by Author. Woolf, Virginia. THE YEARS. London: The Hogarth Press, 1937 Signed by Virginia Woolf. First Edition. Crown 8vo. 469 pp. Publisher's light jade-green cloth, gilt titles to the spine. A lovely near fine or better copy in a superb example of the illustrated original cream dustwrapper designed by Vanessa Bell and printed in black and brown. Quite stunning edition. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A22a. Wolmer 423. The author's penultimate novel, bringing together all of her classic themes. The success of The Years, (now recognized as a feminist novel rather than simply a family saga), motivated Time Magazine to devote a 1937 cover to Virginia Woolf. A signed copy of The Years is rare to find.

London: The Hogarth Press,, 1937. Thinking was torment; why not give up thinking, and drift and dream? First edition, first impression, of the author's penultimate novel, the most popular during her lifetime. Woolf began writing the work in the early 1930s as a novel-essay titled The Pargiters and subsequently divided it into two parts: the fiction portion became The Years, and the essay portion the basis for Three Guineas. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket, designed by Vanessa Bell. Spine slightly faded, head of front cover a little darkened, contents clean; jacket spine and edges lightly toned, faint foxing, a few small nicks to extremities, price intact: a near-fine copy in near-fine jacket. Kirkpatrick A22a; Woolmer 423.

London, The Hogarth Press, 1937. . First edition; 8vo; light foxing to endpapers and edges of textblock, otherwise internally unmarked; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, corners and spine ends slightly bumped, with the original dustjacket by Vanessa Bell, some general spotting, small nick to lower front joint, else very good. Woolf's penultimate novel, forming the fictional companion volume to Three Guineas (1938).

London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition. [4], 469 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original green cloth. Very good, some foxing. Without the dust jacket. First edition. [4], 469 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. David Garnett's Copy. Signed "David Garnett/March 9, 1937." on flyleaf. This was 6 days prior to publication. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, intimately involved with a number of their personal and artistic lives, Garnett was the only child of Edward Garnett and Constance Garnett, the great translator from the Russian. His novel Lady Into Fox won the 1922 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, he founded the Nonesuch Press, and ran a bookshop near the British Museum with Francis Birrell in the 1920s. Woolmer 423

London: The Hogarth Press, 1937, 1937. FIRST EDITION. 1 vol., 7-3/16" x 4-15/16", bound in full green morocco, ribbed gilt decorated spine, covers ruled and paneled in gilt, gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, marbled pastedowns and endpapers, internally clean and bright, hinges fine, A VERY GOOD COPY.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with titles in gilt on spine. Near Fine with foxing to cloth and textblock edge, small divot to bottom of textblock edge and former owner name written in light pencil to the front free endpaper. Eight small, circular spots to the front free endpaper, suggesting the removal of a bookplate or appendage. In a Very Good+ original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, with heavy foxing, light chipping, and light gnawing to the flap folds. The last of Woolf's novels to be published during her life time.

London: Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition of the most successful of Woolf's later novels, often viewed as her masterpiece. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. Virginia Woolf struggled for years with this novel, hoping to incorporate into a fictional form deep and meaningful commentary on the English middle class. Her efforts to revise, rewrite and edit what would become her longest work led her to compare it to "a long childbirth." On publication, audiences and critics responded eagerly, making her truly wealthy for the first time in her life. Viewed as her masterpiece, here Woolf "triumphantly accomplished what she set out to achieve: 'a full, bustling live book'" (Bradshaw & Blyth, eds., The Years).

The Hogarth Press, London., 1937. First edition. Octavo. A 469-page novel. Edges spotted. Free endpapers lightly tanned. Very good indeed in very good, slightly chipped and dusty dustwrapper, designed by Vanessa Bell, with some light spotting.

First edition, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. The Years is the eighth novel by Virginia Woolf, the last published in her lifetime. Cream coloured dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell.
Hardcover, 479 pp. Pale sage green cloth binding, guilt lettering on spine. Very light wear on edges of spine and corners. Very good condition. Front cover detached from rest of the jacket, with small chips at top and bottom of spine and corners. Despite this, dust jacket is in otherwise very good condition, complete and preserved in archival sleeve.

London: The Hogarth Press,, 1937. Thinking was torment; why not give up thinking, and drift and dream? First edition, first impression, of the author's penultimate novel, the most popular during her lifetime. Woolf began writing the work in the early 1930s as a novel-essay titled The Pargiters and subsequently divided it into two parts. The fiction portion became The Years, while the essay portion provided the basis for Three Guineas (1938). Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. Spine slightly darkened, spine ends bumped, mottling to cloth, browning to outer leaves, contents clean; jacket foxed, spine browned, shallow wear to ends and corners, not price-clipped: a very good copy in like jacket. Kirkpatrick A22a; Woolmer 423.

The Hogarth Press, Tavistock Square, London., 1937 FIRST EDITION. 469 printed pages [470-472 blank]. Very slight offsetting on free endpapers. Text block slightly toned. 13 x 19 cm. Original pale jade-green cloth, lettered in gilt on the spine (very lightly toned, very slight rubbing to the spine ends). Complete with unrepaired cream dust jacket printed in black and brown, designed by Vanessa Bell. Mild chipping to head and tail of spine, and to top and bottom of the hinges; one or two 3-5 mm pieces at head of spine, virtually detached; spine panel a trifle darkened. About twelve small dark foxing spots on each of the upper and lower panels. Book and dust jacket in very good to near fine condition. 18,142 copies were published on 15th March 1937 at 8s.6d. The Years is the last novel by Virginia Woolf published in her lifetime. It traces the history of the Pargiter family from the 1880s to the "present day" of the mid-1930s. The novel had its inception in a lecture Woolf gave to the National… Read More

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 6". None. A first edition of one of Virginia Woolf's brilliant novels, a good association copy, from the library of fellow Bloomsbury member Barbara Hiles Bagenal. The first edition.In a striking custom quarter morocco drop-back box, in a fine condition.An association copy, from the library of Barbara Hiles Bagenal, with her ink signature to the recto of the front endpaper. Barbara was an artist associated with the Bloomsbury Group, once staying in a tent on the lawn of Vanessa Bell's Charleston house. She was a lifelong friend of fellow Bohemian Dora Carrington. It's thought that John Maynard Keynes was in love with Barbara, and later a companion, perhaps lover, of Clive Bell. She also had an affair with Saxon Sydney-Turner, suggesting to him that he form a menage-a-trois with Barbara and her husband. Barbara is referenced to in many of Virginia Woolf's and Vanessa Bell's letters to one another.'The… Read More

Hogarth Press,, 1937. 8vo., First Edition; handsomely bound in full dark green crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments ruled and lettered in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt edges, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, custom-made slip-case, a most attractive copy ideal as a gift or for presentation. Kirkpatrick A22a; Woolmer 423.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 469pp. Pale green cloth. Extremities of spine a little rubbed, near fine in very good internally mended dust jacket, with several small chips and short tears on spine, verso with considerable archival paper mends (along spine and flap folds), else quite fresh and bright. *Kirkpatrick* A22a; *Woolmer* 423.

London: Hogarth Press, 1937. 1st British edition original, bright green cloth w/small stain to upper edge of rear cover, moderate worming to hinge; lite toning of end papers; bright dj (by Vanessa Bell) w/lite chippping at edges, in mylar. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

The Hogarth Press, 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Published in Richmond, England by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press in 1937. First edition, indicated by matching publication dates on title and copyright pages. With DJ designed by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. This one of Woolf's later, easier to read works. Book very good+. DJ very good.

london: London, 1960. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Author. First Edition with Leonard Woolf's ownership signature to the half-title page. An excellent copy in blue cloth, gilt titles to the spine in a very good bright fresh dust wrapper with some light overall use. Discreet previous owners inscription. Black and white photographs throughout. 8vo. 206 pp. The first volume of Leonard Woolf's monumental autobiography. Luedeking & Edmonds A38a. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

London: The Hogarth Press 1937. 8vo. [iv], 469 pp. Recently bound in full purple morocco with raised bands and gilt lettering. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. No ownership marks. The last novel published in Woolf's lifetime. . Near Fine. Full Morocco. First Edition. 1937.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1962. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. Signed by Leonard Woolf. First Edition, First American Edition with Leonard Woolf's inscription "Elizabeth from Leonard Christmas 1962" GROWING. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARS 1904 TO 1911 in the original blue cloth covers with gild stamping to the spine. Unclipped and bright dust jacket with some light overall use. The cloth boards have some edge wear. The inside solid and clean. A rare addition to any collector of Leonard Woolf.

London: Hogarth Press, 1964. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First Edition. Hard Cover. First Edition with Leonard Woolf's ownership signature to the half-title page in his BEGINNING AGAIN. AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEARS 1911 TO 1918 with the original blue cloth covers with gild stamping to the spine. Unclipped dust jacket with some toning and a small tear on the spine with some light overall use. Discreet previous owners inscription. This is the third volume of Leonard Woolf's monumental autobiography series following his autobiography, "Sowing" and "Growing.". This covers the period when Leonard Woolf returned to England from Ceylon and then married, on Aug. 10, 1912, a gifted and romantic young woman named Virginia Stephen. And so began the creative years that followed with Virginia Woolf and their literary collaboration together for many years.