Bloomsbury a House of Lions
London: The Hogarth Press, 1979. First Edition. Octavo. Item #015629
288pp. Author Leon Edel won a Pulitzer Prize for his definitive Life of Henry James which was produced in several volumes. This title is part of a series of biographical essays. Edel had planned introducing the Bloomsbury Group; writers, painters, critics, economic and political activist who came together during the Edwardian period and flourished beyond the Second World War. Here he introduces Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Clive and Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, Duncan Grant, Maynard Keynes, Desmond MacCarthy and Lytton Strachey. Bound in brown paper covered boards, spine lettering gilt. endpapers are street maps, in unclipped dust jacket.
Price: $45.00