Sowing. An Autobiography of the Years 1880–1904.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 11–205, [1]. Frontis., b/w pls., index. Publisher's turquoise cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Grey, printed dustwrapper priced at 21s. net to front flap. 1/4,000 copies printed.

Signed by author to title page for Joan Hardinge, with her pencilled jottings to rear free endpaper, noting date and place of purchase (March 1961, at Harrods), plus date and place of signing (September 18th, 1965, at Rodmell). Ephemera to rear, including newspaper reviews and articles. Light dusting to top edge, slight spotting to fore and bottom edges, else Fine.

The first volume of Leonard Woolf's autobiography in which he tells the story of his childhood and his Cambridge years, focusing on Lytton Strachey, Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, and Clive Bell – the kernel of what was to become the Bloomsbury Group – as young men.

[Luedeking & Edmonds A38a]