Downhill All the Way. An Autobiography of the Years 1919–1939.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [viii], 9–259, [1, blank]. Frontis., b/w pls., index. Publisher's turquoise cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Photographic dustwrapper designed by Michael Harvey (priced at 35s. net to front flap).

Signed by author to title page for British politician, fellow author, journalist and broadcaster, Woodrow Wyatt, with the latter's bookplate affixed to pastedown. Upper board tips bumped, a 1" closed tear to bottom edgefold of dustwrapper front, a couple of tears to crown and foot of spine, edges somewhat creased, else a thoroughly clean, fresh copy.

The third volume of Leonard Woolf's autobiography in which he tells of how Virginia Woolf wrote her major novels, of the growth of the Hogarth Press, and of his own trajectory as a writer and publisher.

[Luedeking & Edmonds A42a]