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 Joan Hardinge, with her pencilled jottings to rear free endpaper, noting date and place of purchase (May 1967, Scuddys), plus date and place of signing (August 1967, at the Hogarth Press). Ephemera to rear, including newspaper reviews and articles. Light dusting to top edge, slight spotting to fore and bottom edges, some creasing to oversized dustwrapper flaps from heavy-duty protective sleeve, else Fine.

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]