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WOOLF (VIRGINIA) Flush. A Biography, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "P. Belsher from Virginia Woolf" on the front free endpaper, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1933 image 1
WOOLF (VIRGINIA) Flush. A Biography, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "P. Belsher from Virginia Woolf" on the front free endpaper, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1933 image 2
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WOOLF (VIRGINIA)
Flush. A Biography, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "P. Belsher from Virginia Woolf" on the front free endpaper, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1933

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WOOLF (VIRGINIA)

Flush. A Biography, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "P. Belsher from Virginia Woolf" on the front free endpaper, 10 plates (including 4 after drawings by Vanessa Bell), publisher's cloth (spine soiled), dust-jacket (spotting and toning with small loss at extremities of spine) [Kirkpatrick A19a], 8vo, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1933

Footnotes

Writing some forty years after she had left her position at the Hogarth Press, Peggy remembered that "After lunch Mr W. would come through the office with Pinker [sic], their spaniel, cross over the [Tavistock] Sq. Gardens for the dog to have exercise etc & sometimes V.W. accompanied him". The photograph of a dog on the dust-jacket is "probably Pinka, given to Virginia by Vita in 1926" (Julia Briggs, Virginia Woolf. An Inner Life, 2005).

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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