Mutations of the Phoenix
first edition
1923 · Richmond
by Read, Herbert
Richmond: Hogarth Press, 1923. First edition. Hogarth Press. One of 200 copies hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The first book by the critic poet, and novelist. A rare variant binding of full marbled paper-covered boards, white spine label. Woolmer's "Checklist of the Hogarth Press" mentions only copies bound with a red cloth back. Light wear to edges of the spine. From the George Spater library, with bookplate. Woolmer 38. (Inventory #: 30590)