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Publication: Orlando: A Biography

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  • Publication: Orlando: A BiographyPublication Record # 370607
  • Author: Virginia Woolf
  • Date: 1928-10-11
  • Publisher: Hogarth Press
  • Price:
    9/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
  • Pages: 299
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NOVEL
  • Notes:
    • First trade edition, preceded by 9 days by the signed limited edition from Crosby Gaige.
    • Includes 8 photographic plates of "Orlando", of whom this is a fake autobiography, apparently at different points in his life. The photos are actually Woolf's lover, Vita Sackville-West, in drag.
    • Data from Wikipedia, OCLC, Sotheby's auction house, and Bloomsbury Auctions.
    • Worldcat 9325512 lists the publisher as "Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press", Reginald lists the publisher as "Leonard & Virginia Woolf". Bleiler-78 also lists the Woolfs.
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