Orlando: A Biography

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.