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WOOLF (VIRGINIA) A Room of One's Own, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Peggy Belsher/Virginia Woolf/Nov. 1930" on the front free endpaper, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, at The Hogarth Press, 1930 image 1
WOOLF (VIRGINIA) A Room of One's Own, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Peggy Belsher/Virginia Woolf/Nov. 1930" on the front free endpaper, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, at The Hogarth Press, 1930 image 2
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WOOLF (VIRGINIA)
A Room of One's Own, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Peggy Belsher/Virginia Woolf/Nov. 1930" on the front free endpaper, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, at The Hogarth Press, 1930

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WOOLF (VIRGINIA)

A Room of One's Own, FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Peggy Belsher/Virginia Woolf/Nov. 1930" on the front free endpaper, publisher's cloth, dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, small loss at extremities of spine not touching letters [Kirkpatrick A12b; Woolmer 215B], 8vo, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, at The Hogarth Press, 1930

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Provenance: Peggy Belsher, secretary and head clerk at the Hogarth Press from 1928 to 1936, inscribed to her by Woolf; by family descent to the present owner.

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