Mutations Phoenix by Read Herbert (2 results)

1st Edition. 1st Edition. First edition, one of 200 copies hand-printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at Hogarth Press. Beautiful bright red marbled paper boards with red cloth boards in very good condition with some slight rubbing on the edges and spine crown and foot. Pages clean and no foxing. White label on the spine printed in black with a some wear and tear. Size: 9 7/8" x 7 3/8" pp.51 plus 3 page Hogarth Press advertisement. Published May 1923. Woolmer(38). A lovely copy indeed for any Hogarth collector.

First edition, first impression, one of 200 copies printed, in a handmade binding by Vanessa Bell. This is a variant issue bound in full marbled paper, rather than the usual red cloth-backed marbled paper. The Hogarth Press commissioned Bell to do 300 covers for this publication, although only 200 were published. In a letter to her sister dated March 1923, Woolf wrote: "I should like to come and put the colours on under your direction, as I said. What did you think of the marbling colours?" (Letters, pp. 19-20). Woolmer 38; Virginia Woolf, The Letters: 1923-1928, vol. III. Quarto. 3 pp. publisher's advertisements at end. Original red marbled paper-covered boards heightened in gilt, white paper spine label printed in black. Spine a little sunned, otherwise bright, one chip at foot, extremities rubbed and bumped with a couple of spots of wear: a very good copy.