Woolf (Virginia) The Years, first edition, signed presentation inscription "Janet [Case] with love from Virginia" to front free endpaper, shadowing from inscription onto half-title, browning to rear endpapers, spotting to front endpapers with cracking and surface residue to gutter, original cloth, spine darkened, fraying to spine tips and corners, extremities rubbed, [Kirkpatrick A22a; Woolmer 423], 8vo, 1937.*** A remarkable presentation copy, inscribed to Woolf's tutor and friend Janet Case (1863-1937), intimate presentation copies of works by Woolf are rare at auction.Case became Woolf's tutor in ancient Greek in 1902 and the two women quickly developed a close relationship based on their mutual adoration of literature and writing. Case exerted a significant influence on the younger woman, something Woolf acknowledged in a letter to Margaret Llewellyn Davies following Case's death in July 1937: "no-one, not Leonard even, knows how much I have to thank Janet for."