[Rarebooks] FS: Signed copy of Jacob's Room by Virginia Wolff

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*Woolf, Virginia*. *Jacob's Room* [*Rare Signed Copy*]. New York: Harcourt,
Brace and Company, 1923. First edition. A Very Good copy of the first
American edition, first printing, in the Publisher's original yellow cloth
with a paper spine label, lacking the rare dust jacket, *SIGNED AND
CONTEMPORARILY DATED BY VIRGINIA WOOL*F on the half-title as follows:
"Virginia Woolf / Oct. 1923"; Virginia Woolf's third novel, in which she
presents Jacob Flanders' life story from his childhood through his
adulthood until he is killed during World War I. In this important
modernist work, Woolf presents Jacob's life story primarily through various
women in his life who give their own perspectives of him -- an experimental
form and a dramatic departure from her more conventional prior novels. A
mere 1,500 copies of the first American edition were printed. The book was
first published in England in a Subscriber's edition of 40 copies (only a
few of which are on the market), issued prior to the UK trade edition and
for which Woolf filled in a preprinted Subscriber's slip with the book's
title and the Subscriber's name. She also signed and dated the slips Oct.
1922. The Subscriber's slip, signed separately from the book, then would be
tipped onto the book's front free endpaper. Here we have a Very Good copy
of the first American edition, first printing. The book is mildly askew at
the spine, shows light handling soil, moderate bumps and some wear to the
board corners, some modest spotting to the boards, thin and low diagonal
bump across rear board, light pushing to the spine ends, some wear to the
spine label's edges, and a short marginal tear to the first page of text --
not affecting the text. As noted above, the Subscribers copies were signed
on a slip which then was tipped onto the book's front free endpaper -- i.e.
the book itself was not signed. In the copy presented here, however, Woolf
has signed and dated the book itself. Copies of this important work
actually signed by Woolf are extraordinarily scarce to the market.
Furthermore, this copy has an excellent Provenance, having come from the
Estate of decorated Naval veteran and noted Actor Douglas Fairbanks, whose
bookplate resides on the book's front pastedown. A Very Good copy of an
important Virginia Woolf novel, with the book itself SIGNED AND
CONTEMPORARILY DATED BY VIRGINIA WOOLF. RARE INDEED. Very Good. Hardcover.
(#00003660)

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