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WOOLF (VIRGINIA)
Orlando, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ("Virginia Woolf/Oct. 1928") on the front free endpaper, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, at The Hogarth Press, 1928

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WOOLF (VIRGINIA)

Orlando, FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ("Virginia Woolf/Oct. 1928") on the front free endpaper, 8 plates, publisher's cloth, fading [Kirkpatrick A11b; Woolmer 185], 8vo, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, at The Hogarth Press, 1928

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INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR, IN THE MONTH OF PUBLICATION, FOR THE HOGARTH PRESS SECRETARY. "Miss B[elsher] takes no interest in the books, but stumps out to lunch with a woman's magazine. I think she read Orlando, but that's because Mrs Woolf gave her a signed copy" (Richard Kennedy, A Boy at the Hogarth Press, 1972).

Provenance: Peggy Belsher, secretary and head clerk at the Hogarth Press from 1928 to 1936, inscribed for and gifted to her by Woolf, and with her own inscription inside lower cover; by family descent to the present owner.

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