Author: VIRGINIA WOOLF.
Title: Atalanta's Garland. Being the Book of the Edinburgh University Women's Union.
Description: Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 1926. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition - issued to celebrate the twenty-first anniversary of the opening of the Edinburgh University Women's Union. 8vo. vix, 191pp. White buckram with white and tan decorated paper sides and a printed paper title label. With a captioned tissue-protected colour frontispiece and eleven plates, three of them also in colour (one of which is a reproduction of a watercolour by Katherine Cameron) and nine of them with captioned tissue protectors, as required. A small area of indeterminate staining to the base of the backstrip and a touch of spotting to the free endpapers and to occasional leaf margins. A very good copy with the uncommon Otto Schlapp-designed dust wrapper, a little darkened and spotted with an inch or so of loss from the spine panel ends. Virginia Woolf contributes an original five-page essay, 'A Woman's College from the Outside', which includes a full-page photograph of the author. Other contributors include W.H.Davies (his poems 'Where Shall We Live' and 'Contented Hearts'), Katherine Mansfield ('Two Unpublished Sketches'), Hugh MacDiarmid (his 'Penny Wheep' poem 'Hungry Waters', here set to music by Francis George Scott), Hilaire Belloc, Walter de la Mare (his poem 'The Snail'), T.Sturge Moore, Edwin Muir, Charlotte Mew, Gordon Bottomley &c. 2,000 copies were printed (of which 750 were subsequently pulped). Kirkpatrick B6 (for both Woolf and Mansfield), in the primary tan patterned binding (a total of five binding variants have been identified). Very Good/Good.

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