A Writer's Diary. Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf.

First edition. Demy 8vo. Pp. x, 371, [1]. Publisher's salmon-pink linen, lettered in gilt to spine. Top edge stained red (as called for). Dustjacket designed by Vanessa Bell (priced 18s. net to front flap). With the very uncommon 'Recommended by The Book Society' wrap-around-band. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf. With a Chronological bibliography and an Index. Issued in a print run of 9,000 copies on 2 November 1953.

A near fine copy, with former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, in a lightly rubbed d/w with a few tiny closed tears to extremities.

N° 70 in Connolly's Modern Movement. Leonard Woolf has here excerpted his wife's diaries from 1918 through 1941, including "everything which referred to her own writing". The resulting book "throws light upon Virginia Woolf's intentions, objects, and methods as a writer. It gives an unusual psychological picture of artistic production from within."

[Kirkpatrick & Clarke A31a]