Beginning Again. An Autobiography of the Years 1911–1918.

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [xiv], 15–259, [1]. Frontis., b/w pls., index. Publisher's turquoise cloth boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Grey, printed dustwrapper priced at 30s. 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 1964, at Harrods), plus date and place of signing (September 18th, 1965, at Rodmell). Ephemera to rear, including signed correspondence from the author to Ms. Hardinge. Light dusting to top edge, slight spotting to fore-edge, sparse foxing to inner rear flap, else Fine.

Winner of the W.H. Smith Literary Award. The third volume of Leonard Woolf's autobiography in which he tells of the launching of his career as a writer in London, the beginnings of the Bloomsbury Group, his marriage to Virginia Stephen, and the starting of the Hogarth Press.