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Lot 189

WOOLF (VIRGINIA)
The Years, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Peggy Belsher from Virginia Woolf, March 12th 1937" on front free endpaper, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1937

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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WOOLF (VIRGINIA)

The Years, FIRST EDITION, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "Peggy Belsher from Virginia Woolf, March 12th 1937" on front free endpaper, publisher's green cloth (faded), dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell (small loss at corners, 2 tears without loss) [Kirkpatrick A22a], 8vo, Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1937

Footnotes

THE YEARS INSCRIBED THREE DAYS BEFORE PUBLICATION. Both Leonard and Virginia kept in touch with Peggy after she left the Hogarth Press 1936, and had previously visited her at home after her marriage. Virginia recorded that visit in her diary "...all Tot. Court Road is theirs; the world is to their liking. And gramophones & cases of cutlery... All this they have & enjoy, genuinely, without any shyness... I thought them rather engaging, so pleased with having what everyone has. And Miss B. as she likes to be called, is quite on top of the situation. Patted my shoulder. No snobbishness. No sense of class differences. And science has helped them to toasters: I mean their life is much freer & easier than ours at Hyde Park Gate... she does not mean to have children". Shortly after Virginia's death in 1941, Leonard wrote to Peggy thanking for her letter of condolence mentioning that "Mrs Woolf often spoke of you with affection".

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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