Woolf’s rumination on being ill and its effects on one’s life. Illness, she argues, is an experience as significant as love, jealousy and other human conditions. On Being Ill is a poignant, humorous, and serious short essay about isolation and loneliness.

Woolf, Virginia. On Being Ill. The Hogarth Press. London. 1930. First edition. Octavo. 35 pages. Hand-set by Woolf. Hand-printed by Woolf and Leonard Woolf. Dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell. Marbled endpapers. Original vellum backed bluish-green cloth boards. Pages uncut. Number 155 of 250 copies. Signed by the author in her distinctive purple ink, she accidentally dots the third i in her name twice. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket with the slightest rubbing at the edges. This copy is rather glorious.