WOOLF, Virginia. Flush

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WOOLF, Virginia. Flush. With four Original Drawings by Vanessa Bell and six Other Illustrations. London: The Hogarth Press. 1933. 8vo. First edition; titled the ‘Large Paper Edition 7/6 net’ on the dust jacket, but this is the first edition and printing of the work. Publisher’s pale brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A handsome copy, the cloth a little marked, the spine darkened, with one unfortunate perforation around titles. The binding tight and square, and the contents very clean indeed, fine but for some toning to the half-title from a loosely inserted newspaper clipping. The dust jacket priced 7s 6d net to spine, spine darkened with associated perforation, plus bump here. Corners and spine head gently rubbed and a trifle nicked, a few faint spots to front flap, but this remains a bright and sharp example.

Incorrectly considered one of Woolf’s minor artistic outputs purely on the basis of its plot—‘an attempt to write the life of a dog, Mrs. [Elizabeth Barrett] Browning’s spaniel Flush, who not only played an active part in human life, and inspired poetry, but was himself a dog of worth and character well deserving celebration’. Yet the work contains much of her stream-of-consciousness narrative and modernist experimentation that Woolf remains celebrated for. It was, at the time, Woolf’s best-selling book.

WOOLF, Virginia. Flush. With four Original Drawings by Vanessa Bell and six Other Illustrations. London: The Hogarth Press. 1933. 8vo. First edition; titled the ‘Large Paper Edition 7/6 net’ on the dust jacket, but this is the first edition and printing of the work. Publisher’s pale brown cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket. A handsome copy, the cloth a little marked, the spine darkened, with one unfortunate perforation around titles. The binding tight and square, and the contents very clean indeed, fine but for some toning to the half-title from a loosely inserted newspaper clipping. The dust jacket priced 7s 6d net to spine, spine darkened with associated perforation, plus bump here. Corners and spine head gently rubbed and a trifle nicked, a few faint spots to front flap, but this remains a bright and sharp example.

Incorrectly considered one of Woolf’s minor artistic outputs purely on the basis of its plot—‘an attempt to write the life of a dog, Mrs. [Elizabeth Barrett] Browning’s spaniel Flush, who not only played an active part in human life, and inspired poetry, but was himself a dog of worth and character well deserving celebration’. Yet the work contains much of her stream-of-consciousness narrative and modernist experimentation that Woolf remains celebrated for. It was, at the time, Woolf’s best-selling book.