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Lot 171

FORSTER (E.M.)
The Story of the Siren, [ONE OF 500 COPIES], 1920; Howards End, Ray Strachey's copy, 1910; Woolf. Monday or Tuesdays, 1921, FIRST EDITIONS (3)

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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FORSTER (E.M.)

The Story of the Siren, FIRST EDITION, [ONE OF 500 COPIES], paper toning, uncut in publisher's blue mottled wrappers, printed label with gold-printed border on upper covers, uneven fading, extremities rubbed [Kirkpatrick A6, first state], Richmond, Hogarth Press, 1920; Howards End, FIRST EDITION, first issue with "A Stepson of the Soil" featured on last page of the 4pp. of advertisements, half-title, spotting, publisher's cloth, spine worn, hinges splitting, Edward Arnold, 1910--WOOLF (VIRGINIA) Monday or Tuesday... With Woodcuts by Vanessa Bell, FIRST EDITION, 4 full-page woodcuts by Bell, advertisement leaf at end, publisher's cloth-backed decorative boards designed by Bell, rubbed and spotted [Kirkpatrick A5], Richmond, Hogarth Press, 1921, 8vo (3)

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Provenance: Ray Strachey (nee Costelloe, 1887-1940), Suffragist and politician, ownership signature ("Ray Costelloe") in Howard's End, which was published the year before her marriage to Oliver Strachey, Lytton's brother, in 1911. From a house associated with the Strachey family.

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