A Letter to a Young Poet by Virginia Woolf first edition 1932

WOOLF, Virginia. A Letter to a Young Poet. London: The Hogarth Press, 1932.
Slim octavo pamphlet, 28pp. Original publisher’s cream wrappers printed in black and green. A very near fine copy, remarkably fresh and clean throughout, the text entirely free from spotting, marks or inscriptions. Staples sound; wrappers unusually bright with only the faintest natural toning and a handful of light spots to the upper text block.
 
First edition of the eighth volume in the Hogarth Letters series, issued by Leonard and Virginia Woolf from Hogarth Press headquarters at 52 Tavistock Square. Written in the form of a reflective epistolary essay, Woolf considers the changing nature of correspondence, literary culture, and the craft of writing itself, opening with a meditation on the supposed “death” of letter-writing before turning to the possibilities of modern literary expression. Genuinely very near fine examples are uncommon.