Three Guineas

First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. 329, [1]. Publisher's lemon-yellow cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. With 5 half-tone photographic plates. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell (priced at 7s. 6d. net to front flap and spine). One of slightly more than half of the 16,250 copies printed bound thus – the remainder were issued in the Uniform Edition(s) in 1943 (1,000 copies) and 1947 (7,250).

Boards mottled, top edge dust-soiled, usual offsetting to endpapers. Dustwrapper split along upper spine fold and mid-way through sunned backstrip, with small loss at crown and tail, light chipping at tips, moderate foxing and dust-soiling to front and back panels. Contents clean and crisp.

A book-length essay in an epistolary format on the cause of pacifism conceived as a companion volume to A Room of One's Own (1929). Originally intended as a "novel-essay," with each chapter alternating between essay and fiction, Woolf ultimately decided to separate the two, publishing the fiction section as her 1937 novel The Years. This unfinished manuscript was published in 1977 as The Pargiters. "Achingly relevant." –Natasha Walter, The Guardian

[Kirkpatrick and Clarke A23a; Woolmer 440]