Paper darts (The Illustrated Letters)

Virginia Woolf; Paper Darts; Selected and Introduced by Frances Spalding; Collins & Brown. London, 1991, first edition. From the blurb – “Virginia Woolf was a tireless correspondent, writing as many as six letters a day; and Paper Darts, selected and introduced by Frances Spalding, offers a fascinating insight into her life. Virginia Woolf’s close associates included her sister, the painter Vanessa Bell, writers such as E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey and Vita Sackville-West, and artists such as Roger Fry and Duncan Grant. As a member of the Bloomsbury Group (then considered shockingly avant-garde) and co-founder with her husband Leonard of the influential Hogarth Press, Virginia leaves us with a dazzling evocation of the intellectual life of the day. Virginia was a writer of genius; and through her correspondence we come close to one of the most brilliant, capacious and high-spirited minds of the twentieth century. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs and paintings – many by members of the Bloomsbury Group – of the people and places with which Virginia was most closely associated.” Frances Spalding is an art historian and Bloomsbury scholar. This book, 160 pages measuring 245mm X 187mm, is in fine condition in a fine dust jacket, that is now in a protective mylar wrap.