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

[Allington Books]

Stephen Johnson
Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
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336-414-0435

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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)
>
> DISCOUNTED PRICE:  *$2,375.00*
>
> Stephen Johnson
> Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC
> Rare and Collectible Books, both Antiquarian and Modern
> 336-414-0435
>