Author: VIRGINIA WOOLF.
Title: The Mark on the Wall. A story.
Description: Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1919. 1st Edition. Hardcover. The first separate edition (erroneously marked 'second edition' on the upper wrapper). Slim 8vo. 10pp. Originally issued in thin off-white paper wrappers, this copy has been rebound into red cloth with a gilt lettered and bordered leather spine label, retaining the original wrappers. The tips of two corners very gently bumped. The front wrapper lightly marked and soiled, with some light spotting to the leaf margins and to one blank concluding leaf, and with a crease to the rear wrapper. A very good copy. Woolf's ten-page story was first printed in the very first Hogarth Press publication, Two Stories (1917), a hand-printed production limited to just 150 copies, where it appeared alongside Leonard Woolf's story 'Three Jews'. This separate edition, its second appearance in print, followed nearly two years later, and the story was subsequently revised and collected in 'Monday or Tuesday' (1921) and 'A Haunted House' (1944). 1,000 copies were printed, but its somewhat ephemeral nature makes it really quite scarce. Kirkpatrick A2b / Woolmer 8. Very Good.

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