London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Bell, Vanessa. Octavo, original stiff pictorial boards designed by Vanessa Bell. Lightest toning to boards, tiny chip at base of spine. Item #100139

First edition of novelist E.M. Forster's essay on the place of the author's name in literature, opening with the question: "Do you like to know who a book's by?" Forster argues that the best literature "wants not to be signed . . . Literature does not want to remember." A near-fine copy of an interesting critical work, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf as number XII in the Hogarth Press essay series.