Buyer not afraid of Virginia Woolf value
Complete with the often missing dust jacket and entirely unrestored, as the cataloguer’s notes were pleased to point out, a 1925 Hogarth Press first of Virginia Woolf’s famous novel Mrs Dalloway was offered as part of a March 2 sale at Swann Galleries (25/20/12% buyer’s premium) of New York.
That jacket, which reveals the original UK price tag of 7/6d, is slightly tanned and shows some ch…