Description
The first edition, first printing of The Captain’s Death Bed by Virginia Woolf, published posthumously in 1950.
Octavo, viii, 248pp. Blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine. Stated “first American edition” on the copyright page. Lightly bumped top corner, internally clean. In the publisher’s dust jacket, both corners clipped, a few closed tears along heel of spine, bright illustrations, a very good example. (Kirkpatrick A30a) Jacket designed by her sister, Vanessa Bell.
This first American edition preceded the first English edition, published by The Hogarth Press, by a few months. (Kirkpatrick A30b)
