A Calendar of Consolation. A Comforting Thought for Every Day in the Year.

First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. 101, [3, blank]. Grey cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. In price-clipped and slightly chipped photographic dust jacket with a couple of short closed tears to back panel.

Fine copy signed by Leonard Woolf to title-page. Price-clipped dustwrapper sustaining a few closed tears to edges and folds, else Very Good.

An anthology of quotations by authors' ancient and modern, selected by Woolf for their profundity or originality. Here's a taster: "There is no state in Europe where the least wise have not governed the most wise." [Jean-Jacques Rousseau in his correspondence to Malesherbes (French statesman)]