The Mark on the Wall.
WOOLF Virginia (1919.)
£950.00
Available to view at our Curzon Street shop.
First separate edition.
First separate edition. 8vo., original off-white stapled wrappers, lettered in black. London, printed by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press.
The first separate printing of this short story. Initially published in Two Stories alongside Leonard Woolf’s ‘Three Jews’ in a run of 150, being the first book printed by the Hogarth Press. The little book took the Woolfs two and a half months to prepare, with Virginia painstakingly typesetting and binding in delicate and beautiful paper, and Leonard printing. By the time of this publication, the press had already been through a long line of “tortured assistants”, becoming in the process more a business interest than a hobby. This run was printed in 1000 copies.
Staples rusting, very slightly nicked at the edges, otherwise an excellent copy. Kirkpatrick A2b.
Stock Code: 229157
