Woolf, Virginia “A Haunted House & Other Short Stories” [Hogarth Press, 1943] 1st

WOOLF, Virginia. A Haunted House and Other Short Stories.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1943. First edition, first printing, with "First published 1943" on copyright page. Publisher's original crimson cloth with gilt lettering to spine, in original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Cloth clean with minor wear to extremities. Pages uniformly toned, as typical of the wartime paper stock. Dust jacket substantially toned, with chipping and losses along edges and spine, including a large section missing from the lower spine panel. Front panel artwork remains largely intact. Very Good in Good dust jacket.

A posthumous collection of eighteen short stories by Virginia Woolf, assembled and edited by her husband, Leonard Woolf, following her death in 1941. The volume includes stories previously published in Monday or Tuesday (1921), pieces that appeared in literary periodicals, and several previously unpublished works. Among the selections are "Kew Gardens," "The Mark on the Wall," "The String Quartet," and the title story, "A Haunted House." Leonard Woolf's foreword explains his efforts to fulfill Virginia's intention to publish a second collection of her shorter fiction. The original dust jacket was designed by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell, whose distinctive artwork appeared on numerous Hogarth Press publications. Although dated 1943, the first edition was issued in January 1944, with a printing of 6,000 copies.