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
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
