A HAUNTED HOUSE AND OTHER STORIES Woolf Virginia

First edition With the Vanessa Bell illustrated dustjacket. 8vo, publisher's oriignal red cloth lettered in gilt, in publisher s original dustjacket, designed by Vanessa Bell. 124 pp A very pleasing copy with some slight rubbing to the extremities of the jacket, the book well preserved with only minor mellowing to the wartime paper. FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL VANESSA BELL DESIGNED DUSTJACKET. Leonard Woolf writes in the foreword, "All through her life, Virginia Woolf used at intervals to write short stories. It was her custom, whenever an idea for one occurred to her, to sketch it out in a very rough form and then to put it away in a drawer. Later, if an editor asked her for a short story, and she felt in the mood to write one (which was not frequent), she would take a sketch out of her drawer and rewrite it, sometimes a great many times." In the present volume, Leonard was carrying out Virginia s wish in 1940 to put together a new volume of short stories, some of which had appeared in Monday or Tuesday, others in magazines, and still others unpublished.