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Scholar makes facsimile of 1st edition of TTL available

Posted in books, To the Lighthouse, tagged , , , on Saturday 29 August 2026| Leave a Comment »

Edward Mendelson had a need. While working on the text of To the Lighthouse, the Virginia Woolf scholar wanted to use a hard-copy facsimile of the first edition. And since he couldn’t find anything available online, he created his own.

Now he has made that facsimile available to everyone as a hard copy print-on-demand edition. It can be purchased via Amazon at the lowest price the mammoth online retailer allows.

Here’s how Mendelson describes the volume, which uses his “low-quality scans of the first edition” of Woolf’s 1927 novel printed by the Hogarth Press:

This is an absolutely no-frills production, with plain paper covers and all the faults of my original scans. But it’s there if anyone wants it. Despite its faults, it’s surprisingly satifisfying to work with.

They are the same scans that Mendelson posted online some time ago.

How to purchase it

About Mendelson

Mendelson is the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. His new book, The Inner Life of Mrs Dalloway, came out last year from Columbia University Press. Mendelson also edited Mrs. Dalloway: The First-Edition Text with the Author’s Revisions, which was published by New York Review Books.

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Looking for a Virginia Woolf first edition? Here are 2 sources

Posted in books, tagged , , , , , , on Wednesday 2 August 2023| Leave a Comment »

Shopping online for books devoted to Virginia Woolf, the Bloomsbury group, and the Hogarth Press? I have two sources for you. One, I have written about before. The other is new to me, although its proprietor is not.

York Harbor Books

Jon and Margaret Richardson are not newcomers to the world of Woolf. They have made hunting down the works of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury group their mission since opening York Harbor Books in Maine more than 25 years ago.

The shop does not have its own website, but you can search the Jon S. Richardson Rare Books offerings on AbeBooks. You can also reach the shop at yorkharborbooks@aol.com or at 207-752-1569.

The Richardson duo put out a list of “Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group” offerings each summer. This August’s list includes 27 pages of items, including the following:

  • First edition of Virginia’s The Common Reader (1925) with the Vanessa Bell cover,
  • Signed copy of the first American edition of Leonard’s Downhill All the Way, An Autobiography of the Years 1919-1939 (1967),
  • Julie Singleton’s A History of Monks House and Village of Rodmell, Sussex Home of Leonard and Virginia Woolf (2008) from Cecil Woolf Publishers,
  • First edition of Vita Sackville-West’s Passenger to Teheran (1926),
  • Very scarce first edition of David Garnett’s Never Be a Bookseller (1929).

Second Wind Books

Second Wind Books is the brainchild of Leslie Arthur, who is also not a newcomer to the world of Woolf. Leslie and I met at past Woolf conferences when she was in the midst of learning the craft of bookselling at the William Reese Co.

She now has an online shop of her own. Recently she has been “off buying new stock and furiously cataloguing it” and attending a rare books seminar in Minnesota and Rare Books School in California, according to emails to Blogging Woolf that announce her new site.

Current finds listed in such categories as Bloomsbury, the Hogarth Press and more, include the following:

  • First edition of A Writer’s Diary (1955) with Vanessa Bell dust jacket,
  • First edition of The Years (1937) with Vanessa Bell dust cover,
  • First edition of The Common Reader Second Series (1935),
  • First edition of Jacob’s Room (1922),
  • First edition of The Death of the Moth and Other Essays (1942).

Some featured items on the Second Wind Books website

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