WOOLF, Leonard.

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Stories of the East. First edition of this early Hogarth Press book, one of 300 copies hand printed by the Woolfs and with a front wrapper design by Dora Carrington. The stories were inspired by Woolf's time as a civil servant in Ceylon, where he served for seven years from 1904.An instant success, with all but three copies sold, Stories of the East was one of the Hogarth Press's best-sellers, beaten only by Gorky's The Note-Books of Tchekhov and Virginia's Monday or Tuesday.

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