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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Letters of Leonard Woolf, Woolf, Leonard; Edited by Frederick Spotts. Published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, San Diego, New York And London, 1989. First Edition. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 616pp., with family tree, chronology, biographical appendix, index and 16pp. of black and white plates. Quarter dark blue cloth over blue boards, gilt spine titles. In fine condition in price clipped jacket also in fine condition and protected in mylar. Contains 600 letters dating from 1901 to 1969; correspondents include E. M. Forster, Eliot, H. G. Wells and Sylvia Townsend Warner. Portrait of Leonard Woolf on dustjacket by Vanessa Bell, artist and sister of Virginia Woolf. Leonard Woolf (1880-1969) was a political historian and author of both fiction and non-fiction, and a founding member of the Bloomsbury group. Together with his wife Virginia Woolf, he established The Hogarth Press which published 474 titles including the early work of T. S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, and John Maynard Keynes, Russian novelists as well as Sigmund Freud.