Publication details: Duckworth,1915,
Rare Book
Her first novel, with a dual Bloomsbury Group association, being originally the copy of civil servant Saxon Sydney-Turner - one of that circle's founding members, having befriended Leonard Woolf, Thoby Stephen et al. at Cambridge; his ownership inscription is then converted into the ex dono inscription of Barbara Bagenal (ne Hiles) - a friend of Carrington from the Slade who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing and forged various relationships within the group, the longest of which was with Sydney-Turner. Both are mentioned recurrently, generally in fond terms (though Saxon is often made a figure of fun), in Virginia's diary and letters.
FIRST EDITION, pp. [viii], 458, [6, ads], 16 (list), crown 8vo, original green cloth, the rules to upper board and publisher-device to lower board both blind-stamped, lettering in black to upper board in gilt to backstrip, the latter darkened with some rubbing along joints and tiny spots of wear at tips, slight lean to spine, edges a little toned and dusty, good
Bibliography: (Kirkpatrick A1a)
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