Three Guineas by Virginia Woolf, First Edition (53 results)

First Edition. First Edition. Woolf, Virginia. THREE GUINEAS. Signed By Virginia Woolf. London: The Hogarth Press, 1938. First Edition Neatly Signed by Virginia Woolf in her characteristic purple ink to the half-title page. 8vo. 329 pp. An excellent copy in yellow cloth, gilt titles to the spine lacking the dustwrapper. Housed in a custom clamshell case. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A23a. Woolmer 440.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Vanessa Bell (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Virginia Woolf's detailed essay examining her views on fascism, war and women's rights, in the original Vanessa Bell dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of Virginia Woolf's book length essay discussing her views on war and women's rights. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper, illustrated by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell.Woolf's essay confronts three questions: How should war be prevented? Why does the government not support education for women? Why are women not allowed to engage in professional work?Originally conceived as a work of fiction and non-fiction simultaneously, with one half of the work dedicated to each style, Woolf eventually divided the work; the fiction portion became Woolf's most popular novel during her lifetime, 'The Years'.Illustrated with five photographic plates. Collated, complete.A fascinating work written shortly before the onset of war, the views Woolf expresses in this essay have been described as feminist, pacifist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Cloth is a little discoloured, in particular to the spine, as is usual with yellow cloth. A few minor handling marks to the boards. Spots to the endpapers. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn, with chips to the head and tail of the spine, and small closed tears. Spine is age-toned. Light marks to the wraps, heavier to the rear wrap. Spots to the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Near Fine. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First British Edition, First Impression. Very Near Fine in pale yellow cloth, spine gilt, in a Very Good Vanessa Bell dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with fading of violet color along spine, light edgewear, front spinefold tender. Tiny dots to top of textblock. 329pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Illustrated with some black and white photographic reproductions. Q19623.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Vanessa Bell (illustrator). First edition. The first edition of Virginia Woolf's detailed essay examining her views on fascism, war and women's rights. In the publisher's original unclipped illustrated dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of Virginia Woolf's book length essay discussing her views on war and women's rights. In the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper, illustrated by her sister, Vanessa Bell.Woolf's essay confronts three questions: How should war be prevented? Why does the government not support education for women? Why are women not allowed to engage in professional work?Originally conceived as a work of fiction and non-fiction simultaneously, with one half of the work dedicated to each style, Woolf eventually divided the work; the fiction portion became Woolf's most popular novel during her lifetime, 'The Years'.Illustrated with five photographic plates. Collated, complete.With the former owner's inscription of Stephen Bagnall to the head of the front free endpaper.A fascinating work written shortly before the onset of war, the views Woolf expresses in this essay have been described as feminist, pacifist, anti-fascist, and anti-imperialist. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped illustrated dust wrapper. Light discolouration to back strip, with minor shelf wear to back strip tail. More significant discolouration to the tail of front and rear board, and tail of back strip. Former owner's inscription to the head of the front free endpaper. Significant discolouration to dust wrapper back strip, with moderate marks to front and rear wrap. Edge wear to head of dust wrapper, and tail of dust wrapper back strip. Small closed tears to head and tail of fold between back strip and front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First American Edition, First Printing. A Fine copy in brown cloth, grey topstain, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with just the slightest toning to spine panel. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell. 285pp. with black and white illustrations. Scarce in this condition. Q18104.

Hard Back Quarter Marocco. Condition: Fine condition. illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. A beautifully rebound copy of this scarce English literary classic, bound in fine brown leather with raised bands black title label gilt titles name and date to spine, Marbled boards new end papers, 329pp. A very fine copy.

First American edition, review copy, stamped by the publisher on the front endpaper "Review Copy / Publication Date / Aug. 25 1938 Price $2.50". 8vo. (6), 285 pp. Verso of dust jacket reinforced at head of spine, else very good. Rust cloth, gilt spine title, decorated dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell (rubbed, price clipped, spine darkened). (9578).

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in the original cloth boards. Tiny owner inscription. End pages darkened. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.

First edition. Octavo. 329 pages. Black and white plates. The author develops some of the ideas which ran through her final novel The Years.Spine and cover edges darkened as usual. Very good in good, spotted and nicked dustwrapper, by Vanessa Bell, darkened at spine with some of the lettering barely legible, chipped at head and tail of spine and with a 3cm tear to fold of front flap.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Jacket slightly chipped, with fading to the spine and lettering.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 329 pp. Yellow cloth in dust jacket. Boards slightly darkened and stained. Small ink inscriptions to ffep. Dust jacket damaged. Dj spine darkened with remains of cellotape along upper edges. Dj chipped and edgeworn with pencil notations to rear flap. 8vo.

Hardback. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. 329, [1]. Publisher's lemon-yellow cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. With 5 half-tone photographic plates. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell (priced at 7s. 6d. net to front flap and spine). One of slightly more than half of the 16,250 copies printed bound thus - the remainder were issued in the Uniform Edition(s) in 1943 (1,000 copies) and 1947 (7,250). Boards mottled, top edge dust-soiled, usual offsetting to endpapers. Dustwrapper split along upper spine fold and mid-way through sunned backstrip, with small loss at crown and tail, light chipping at tips, moderate foxing and dust-soiling to front and back panels. Contents clean and crisp. A book-length essay in an epistolary format on the cause of pacifism conceived as a companion volume to A Room of One's Own (1929). Originally intended as a "novel-essay," with each chapter alternating between essay and fiction, Woolf ultimately decided to separate the two, publishing the fiction section as her 1937 novel The Years. This unfinished manuscript was published in 1977 as The Pargiters. "Achingly relevant." -Natasha Walter, The Guardian. [Kirkpatrick and Clarke A23a; Woolmer 440] 452.

1st Edition. 1st Edition. First American Edition. A lovely copy in the publisher's brick cloth covered boards, gilt to the spine in an unclipped dynamic designed dust jacket by Vanessa Bell printed in mauve and blue, with minor chipping at the heel and crown of the spine, a few tiny indiscernible closed tears and sunning at the spine and edges. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A23b. 8vo. 285 pp. The second major work of non-fiction by Virginia Woolf, conceived as a companion volume to 'A Room Of One' Own', establishing Woolf as a significant voice in the causes of feminism and pacifism. Quite lovely indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. Good with some browning to cloth at spine and offset browning to front endpaper, where attractive meticulously cut out front panel of jacket has been loosely laid-in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. First edition hardcover, with very fine leather rebinding, including gilt detailing to the spine and complementary marbled pastedowns. Gilded pageblock head. Light shelf and handling to boards, minor wear to edges. Pageblock is tanned and lightly foxed, tanning leading into page edges. Binding is secure, and other than occasional blemish within, content is unmarked. CN. Used.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. True first British printing with original unclipped (priced to spine) jacket (7/6). Jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Jacket has faults - namely edge/shelf wear, numerous old browned tape repairs/reinforcements to reverse (white side), a little patchy loss (mainly to head/tail of spine and to corners), few tears (largest approx. 2cms), creasing/rubbing to edges, mild foxing, pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, numerous marks, pushing/bumping to corners, patchy browning (including to spine), mild foxing/browning/rubbing/creasing to front/back inner flaps, is a little fragile and is in only fair condition. Boards are very good (having been generally well protected by the jacket) with minor pushing/bumping to corners, patchy browning (including to spine), few marks, the odd small bump/rub to edges, a little patchy grubbiness and minor pushing/rubbing/bumping to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Inside boards/end-papers tanned with the odd small mark/mild foxing. Pages bit tanned. Previous owner's name in pen to top of half-title page. Odd small marks/minor foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Occasional small mark/spots of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. DUST JACKET (UNCLIPPED; SPINE DARKENED, FEW SMALL CHIPS) FIRST AMERICAN EDITION VERY GOOD.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 8vo., yellow cloth lettered in gilt; soiling to spine and covers; offsetting to front endpaper. First edition. Woolmer 440. A lovely copy.

Hard Cover. Dust Jacket Condition: Yes. First. First American edition (stated). REVIEW COPY, so stamped by the publisher on the front free endpaper: "Review Copy/ Publication Date/ Aug 25 1938 / Price $2.50". Woolf's brilliant examination of questions concerning the education and economic freedom of women, war and peace, politics and careers. The work ws inspired by three requests to Mrs. Woolf for donations --one for a war prevention society, one from the treasurer of a woman's college and the third from the treasurer of a society for obtaining employment for professional women. The book traces the connection between these three requests and discovers upon what terms the three guineas should be given to the three treasurers. Very good, spine gilt somewhat dulled and a touch of wear at the tips. In edgeworn dust jacket, spine darkened and with some scrapes as well as a small chip out of the lower portion of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. (Chipping at spine ends on jacket. Other chips & tears along edges. A few soil spots at top edge. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 285 pages.

Original Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First American Edition. Review copy (so stamped, with date) of the First American Edition. Jacket darkened on spine and chipped at edges.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Good+ in boards. Owner name on FEP. Staining on bottom of front/rear panels and spine heel.

Cloth. Condition: Good. First Edition. 329 pp. Publisher's yellow cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Spine darkened with small split to top end and boards marked. Darkening and staining to endpapers, previous ownership name in ink on front endpaper. comes in a facsimile dustwrapper. 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. In pictoiral jacket over wine red cloth with gilt spine titling, 8vo [6]+285pp. Original illustrated dust jacket with design by Vanessa Bell on upper cover and spine and advertisements for the author's works on the back cover. [Kirkpatrick A23b]. (jacket with light rubbing to extremities; light toning and browning to jacket spine and extremities). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾". Book.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition 1938. Book is very good with bright boards. Cloth lightly marked. Contents good. Small Edward Ardizzone bookplate to age toned endpaper. More images can be taken upon request.Ref18408.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition 1938. Book is very good with bright boards. Spine a little age toned. Contents good. Small bookplate to age toned endpaper. More images can be taken upon request.Ref18408.

Hard. Condition: Good Minus. No Jacket. First Edition. Boards rubbed and stained in places, spine browned, light edgewear, foxing to endpapers, ink inscription to fep, 5 black and white illustrations clear, pp clean and unmarked, binding secure. Size: 12mo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Very Good. First Edition Thus. First US edition, hardcover, has bumps to the spine ends and cover corners, light sunning to the spine and head with some fading to the top edge treatment, the shadow of a stamp to the front paste down, and a thin smudge to the fore edge of the title page. Overall, this is a solid, tight, Very Good copy in an unclipped, Near Very Good dust jacket, which has bumps with shallow losses at the spine ends and corners, sunning and scuffing to the spine, rubbing with some light smudges to the covers, and wear with a few short tears to the edges. The jacket is in Mylar.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Hardback. A good plus copy in the original yellow cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. The dustwrapper is quite spotted on the front and rear panels, with a few edge chips, faded on the spine and with a lengthy tear at the join of the spine and rear panel. It is now protected in a clear, removable sleeve. There is some browning/foxing to the front end-papers and half-title but otherwise the book is clean internally. There is no ownership inscription. Photographs available on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dustjacket. First Edition. Bound in yellow cloth with gilt titles to spine, this hardcover dated 1938 First Edition is VG. 329pp with Three Parts and Five Photographs. Clean endpapers, spine a shade darker than boards but lettering clear, and otherwise VG.