The Years

by Virginia Woolf

$1,102 · Offered by Biblio

First edition

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1937. First edition. Cloth. Good. 8.5" by 6". None. A first edition of one of Virginia Woolf s brilliant novels, a good association copy, from the library of fellow Bloomsbury member Barbara Hiles Bagenal. The first edition.In a striking custom quarter morocco drop-back box, in a fine condition.An association copy, from the library of Barbara Hiles Bagenal, with her ink signature to the recto of the front endpaper. Barbara was an artist associated with the Bloomsbury Group, once staying in a tent on the lawn of Vanessa Bell s Charleston house. She was a lifelong friend of fellow Bohemian Dora Carrington. It s thought that John Maynard Keynes was in love with Barbara, and later a companion, perhaps lover, of Clive Bell. She also had an affair with Saxon Sydney-Turner, suggesting to him that he form a menage-a-trois with Barbara and her husband. Barbara is referenced to in many of Virginia Woolf s and Vanessa Bell s letters to one another. The Years was the final of Woolf s novels published in her lifetime, an epic following one family across the generations, set in the 1880s to the mid 1930s.Written by the Bloomsbury author Virginia Woolf, a central figure of the literary group, herself known for her experimental writings and affair with fellow author Vita Sackville-West. Published by the Hogarth Press, the Bloomsbury publishing house founded ran by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The press was founded in the interwar period

• Publisher: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
• Year: 1937
• Edition: First Edition
• Binding: hardcover

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