Orlando: A Biography
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Overview:
- Title: Orlando: A Biography
- Author: Virginia Woolf
- Year: 1928
- Publisher: Crosby Gaige
- Pages: 333
- Binding: Hardcover
- Type: Novel
- Title Reference: Orlando: A Biography
- Notes:
- Signed limited edition, preceding by 9 days the publication of the trade edition. 800 copies were signed by Woolf in purple ink on the verso of half-title page. Numbered on the limitation page, p. [334], and were for sale. Another 61 copies not for sale were signed without a number.
- Housed in custom clamshell, with "Virginia Woolf" simulated signature in gold leaf.
- 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, from Abebook dealers, from Sydney Rare Book Auctions (Australia), and from the verification copy.