Beschreibung:

Woolf, Virginia
On Being Ill
(London): Printed and Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1930. First and limited edition, #54/250 numbered copies, signed by Woolf in purple ink. 8vo. 34 pp. Publisher's quarter vellum over blue-green cloth-covered boards, stamped in gilt; all edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; text completely unopened; in original scarce pictorial dust-jacket printed in grey, yellow, and black, spine slightly darkened, top of same chipped, other scattered wear and creasing along edges. Kirkpatrick A14; Woolmer 245
A handsome unopened signed first edition of Woolf's powerful essay on the possibilities of illness as a subject of literary interest. First published by T.S. Eliot in the New Criterion in January, 1926.
Provenance
The Estate of G. Franklin Ludington, New York City.