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Virginia Woolf, Three Guineas
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1938
Columbia RBML B825W883 X3 1938
Shown here is the first American edition of Virginia Woolf's Three Guineas. Published by Harcourt Brace and Co., the dust jacket was designed by her sister, Vanessa. Vanessa Bell did not always read the works but would create the design after a conversation with Virginia Woolf about it. The jacket design shows three banknotes, suggestive of the three guineas of the title. There are copies of this edition in the Milstein collection and the Butler stacks.
This edition includes inset photographs. In the first section of Three Guineas Woolf invites her alleged interlocutor: "Photographs, of course, are not arguments addressed to the reason; they are simply statements of fact addressed to the eye. But in that very simplicity there may be some help. Let us see then whether when we look at the same photographs we feel the same things."