B A U M A N R A R E B O O K S W O M E N S H I S T O R Y 2 0 2 4 Women's History Month 44 “A TAUT, REAL, STRENUOUS BOOK” 44. WOOLF, Virginia. The Years. London, 1937. Octavo, original green cloth, dust jacket. $4200 First edition of the most ambitious and successful of Woolf’s later novels. Woolf struggled for four years with this novel, hoping to incorporate into a fictional form deep and meaningful commentary on the politics of the English middle class. Her efforts to revise, rewrite, and edit what would become her longest work led her to compare The Years to “a long childbirth.” When The Years was finally published audiences responded eagerly, making her truly wealthy for the first time in her life. As is usual with Woolf’s books, the jacket design is by her sister, Vanessa Bell. Kirkpatrick A22. Woolmer 423. Bell, 440. Book with slight tape marking to endpapers, light wear to extremities of cloth. Dust jacket with small spots of tape residue to flaps, light wear edgewear mainly affecting spine-ends, and slight toning to spine. An extremely good copy.
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