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One of 250 signed copies
Virginia Woolf, 1930
WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). On Being Ill. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1930.

First edition, limited to 250 copies, signed by the author. Woolf's powerful essay on illness gave a female voice to the genre. Written in 1925, it originally appeared in T.S. Eliot's The Criterion in January 1926. This is copy no. 51. Kirkpatrick A14.

Octavo. Blue-green cloth boards, vellum spine. Pictorial dust jacket printed in grey, black, and yellow (light wear and several short closed tears to extremities).
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