WOOLF, VIRGINIA

The Common Reader

London, Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press NONE. 1929. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. 305pp. 12mo. Green cloth, gilt title stamped to spine; sunned and faded, somewhat irregular in its pattern. Spine is slightly cocked and there is light discolouration to the free endpapers. There is a notation lightly pencilled tothe front free endpaper. Else is clean and bright, solid. A very good copy of this classic, essential Woolf read.

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Book number: 128990

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: British Literature, Bloomsbury, Hogarth Press, Literature - British

Woolf, Virginia

The Common Reader

New York, Harcourt Brace, (1925), 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. by Author. Very scarce First American Edition Neatly Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. The First Series not the more Common Second Series. 8vo. 332 pp. A fine fresh copy in a beautifully crafted black leather and cloth binding with gold stamping on the spine and gold leaf edging on the top pages, with dynamic purple marbled patterned endpapers. A very Rare copy indeed. An erudite collection proving Woolf at her critical best. Includes her now famous, On Not Knowing Greek, Modern Fiction, Jane Austen & Montaigne, with whom both Virginia and Leonard Woolf harboured a special sympathy for, culminating in, Leonard Woolf"s autobiography, The Journey Not The Arrival Matters. Kirkpatrick & Clarke A8b. .

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Book number: 33291

Catalogue: Gallery Highlights

Keywords: Virginia Woolf Collection Electronic List TBCL Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury Virginia Woolf & Hogarth Press Bloomsbury Group

Woolf, Virginia

The Common Reader. Second Series

London, Hogarth Press, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. Vanessa Bell. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author Virginia Woolf. Vanessa Bell. First Edition. Woolf, Virginia. THE COMMON READER: SECOND SERIES. Signed By Virginia Woolf. London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. First Edition. 8vo. 270 pp. Neatly Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. A very good copy in green cloth, fade to the boards, gilt titles to the spine in the Vanessa Bell designed dustwrapper that has foxing overall. Small book trade label of 'The Times Book Club, 42 Wigmore Street, London W1' affixed to the rear pastedown, the unobtrusive small stamped number 10 32, (October, 1932), to the rear free endpaper indicating that the book was acquired by way of 'The Times Book Club'. Virginia Woolf's second collection of critical essays after finishing the Waves and working on Flush. In a February 1932 letter to Ethel Smyth, Woolf wrote: "I admit I think it a very good thing, this working. I have been toiling over Donnes poetry all the morning, - with antlike assiduity; for the Common Reader (Second Series)". The Letters Of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A18a. Woolmer 315.(32469). Ill.: Vanessa Bell. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 33142

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Keywords: VIRGINIA WOOLF COLLECTION,HOGARTH PRESS / VIRGINIA WOOLF LEONARD THE BLOOMSBURY GROUP FIRST EDITION Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury Virginia Woolf & Hogarth Press Hogarth Press

Woolf, Virginia

The Common Reader. Signed by Virginia Woolf Association Copy from the Library of Victoria Strachey & Mark Holloway

London, Hogarth Press, 1925. First Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. Woolf. Virginia. THE COMMON READER. Signed Association Copy From the library of Victoria Strachey & Mark Holloway. London: Hogarth Press, 1925. 8vo. 305pp. light grayish blue cloth, second edition issued November - the first was issued in April. A short & amusing Als. from Virginia Woolf tipped to the front free endpaper, reading: "To / Dr. Rendel, / A small dose nightly to / ensure sleep / Virginia Woolf / Christmas 1925". The book is further signed in pencil by F.E. Rendel at the top of the front endpaper. At the corner of the front pastedown is another [very lightly written] inscription that reads: "For Victoria [Strachey] with love from . March 21st. 1951" A very good copy lacking the dustwrapper & showing light general use. There is some spotting to some of the front & back pages, the spine is slightly yellowed & there is a chip to the paper spine label which is mildly tanned. Provenance: Ex Libris; Dr. Frances Elinor Rendel & Acquired from the library of Victoria Strachey & Mark Holloway. [Lytton Strachey was Victoria Strachey's great uncle] - Dr. F.E. Rendel, to whom this letter is inscribed by Virginia Woolf, was Doctor Frances Elinor Rendel (1885 - 1942), the daughter of Lytton Strachey's Eldest sister Eleanor, & was known as Ellie Rendel. At some point in 1924, Dr. F.E. Rendel became the London doctor of Virginia Woolf, Roger Fry & the Bells (Vanessa & Clive). Vanessa Bell writes in a letter to Virginia Woolf of April 23rd. 1927:- "Roger [Fry] comes tomorrow. He was to have come before, but it seems that Ellie [Rendel] nearly killed him, like you, with her new brand of inoculations, and he couldn't start as he meant to." Dr. F.E. Rendel was the doctor treating Virginia Woolf at the very end of her life. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 32468

Catalogue: Gift Suggestions

Keywords: VIRGINIA WOOLF COLLECTION Gallery Highlights Presentation & Inscribed Copies Electronic List TBCL Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury

WOOLF Virginia

The Common Reader. Second Series. 3200 COPIES WERE PRINTED

Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,, 1932. 8vo., First Edition; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With Vanessa Bell's 'wolf' design on title. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A SEPIA-TINTED POSTCARD SHOWING THE AUTHOR SEATED READING IN A GARDEN. The first edition was limited to 3200 copies. Kikpatrick A18; Woolmer 315.

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Book number: 49145

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, woolf, virginia woolf, bloomsbury, hogarth press

Woolf, Virginia

The Common Reader. Second Series

London, The Hogarth Press, 1948. Hardcover. Uniform Edition. Fifth impression. 270pp. Cloth. A collection of critical essays on Robinson Crusoe, Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, and more. Light fading to spine panel else a fine copy in very good+ dustjacket with toning to spine. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 37277

Catalogue: General Non-Fiction

Keywords: non-fiction, ESSAYS, LITERATURE

Virginia Woolf

The Common Reader: Second Series

London, The Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A smart example of Virginia Woolf's fascinating work of literary criticism, in the original dust wrapper designed by Vanessa Bell. The first edition, first impression, being one of 3200 copies. In the original unclipped dust wrapper designed by Vanessa Bell. The Common Reader: Second Series, was the second collection of Woolf's essays published, following on from the successful first in 1925. Arranged in chronological order, the volume begins with Elizabethan authors, all the way to her contemporary, Thomas Hardy. Woolf's essays are enthusuastic and insightful and highlight her skill as a journalist and critic. Written by the Bloomsbury author Virginia Woolf, a central figure of the literary group, herself known for her experimental writings and affair with fellow author Vita Sackville-West. Published by the Hogarth Press, the Bloomsbury publishing house founded ran by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The press was founded in the interwar period, as printing became a hobby for the couple, diverting Virginia when her writing became too stressful. Both Woolfs' taught themselves to use a printing press, publishing 527 titles from the period of 1917 to 1946. In the original green cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart with minor bumping to the extremities and head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is very smart with spotting to the wrap. The occasional closed tear and chipping to the wrap, worse to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just the odd spot, heavier to the fore edge. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: Vanessa Bell. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.

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Book number: 828K6

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: Bloomsbury Group Vanessa Bell Literary Criticism Vanessa Bell Vanessa Bell

Virginia Woolf

The Common Reader, First Series and Second Series

London, The Hogarth Press, 1925-1932 . First edition. Cloth. The first editions of the first and second series of Virginia Woolf's literary essays. Present here is the 1925 first edition, first impression of Woolf's 'First Series', and the 1932 first edition, first impression of the 'Second Series&apos.The 'First Series' a collection of essays, many of which originally appeared in publications such as New Statesman and The Times. The work includes essays on literary giants such as Geoffrey Chaucer, Jane Austen and George Eliot.The 'Second Series' follows from the success of the earlier volume. Arranged in chronological order, the volume begins with Elizabethan authors, and concludes with her contemporary, Thomas Hardy.Woolf's essays are insightful and highlight her skill as a journalist and critic. With a loosely inserted Hogarth Press prospectus, advertising Woolf's works.In these works, Woolf sought to write literary criticism which could be enjoyed by the 'common reader&apos. 'First Series' in the publisher's original cloth backed pictorial paper covered boards, with 'Second Series' in the publisher's original cloth binding. Significant discolouration to 'First' back strip, with bumping to back strip head and tail. Tide mark to tail of front board, with handling marks to board, and board perimeters age toned. Significant handling marks and discolouration to rear board. 'Second' externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages generally clean and bright, with the odd light handling mark. Light spotting to volume I title page. Good . Ill.: Vanessa Bell. Good .

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Book number: 894F57

Catalogue: Literary Criticism

Keywords: The Common Reader essays virginia woolf leonard woolf essays Vanessa Bell

WOOLF, VIRGINIA

The Common Reader Second Series

The Hogarth Press, 1932-01-01. Hardcover. 1932 Hogarth Press first edition in unclipped jacket with toned spine. Tight and unmarked looks unread. Please email for photos.. Collectible: Very Good .

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Book number: 72254

WOOLF, Virginia

The complete shorter fiction

Chatto & Windus, 1989. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket . Expanded and revised edition, 1989. Pages yellowed; otherwise a tidy copy in tight binding. Dust jacket not price-clipped; small stains on reverse side of rear panel with colour transfer from green cloth. Photo:http://cibimages.blob.core.windows.net/img-1/stand_80121_jpg.jpg. ISBN: 070120852X

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Book number: BOOKS302340I

Woolf, Virginia

Congenial Spirits; the Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

San Diego, Etc. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1989. 1st Edition. Edited by Joanne Trautmann Banks. xviii, 472p. dj. .

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Book number: 024435

Keywords: Virginia Woolf English Literature

WOOLF, VIRGINIA; BANKS, JOANNE TRAUTMANN (EDITOR)

Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc, 1990. Softcover. ISBN: 015622030X. A softcover copy of a selection of letters by Virginia Woolf. The editor, Joanne Trautmann Banks, previously was co-editor of the six volume "Letters of Virginia Woolf." For this volume, Ms. Banks selected "jewels" from the earlier compilation, and has provided explanatory footnotes throughout. With extensive index. --- In tan wraps with color sketch of Virginia Woolf by her sister, Vanessa Bell. --- A clean, tightly-bound copy but with reading creases to spine and retailer's back cover sticker.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xviii, 472 pages. Very Good .

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Book number: 84708

Keywords: 015622030x >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir >>Writers, Writing & Literary Criticism

WOOLF Virginia

Congenial Spirits. The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf. Edited by Joanne Trautmann Banks. NEAR FINE COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER

Hogarth Press,, [1989]. 8vo., First Edition; blue cloth, gilt back, a near fine copy in unclipped dustwrapper. SCARCE, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CONDITION.

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Book number: 45900

Catalogue: Modern First Editions0

Keywords: modern first editions, modern firsts, woolf, virgina woolf, bloomsbury, joanne banks

WOOLF, VIRGINIA; GUIGUET, JEAN (PREFACE)

Contemporary Writers

New York and London, A Harvest Book / Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. (ISBN: 0-15-621450-4). 1965. (Mass market paperback) Near fine. 160pp. 8vo. 46 essays that first appeared in the Times Literary Supplement in which Virginia Woolf offers her thoughts on her contemporaries in fiction, her literary reviews, and on women novelists. Writers discussed include E.M. Forster, Dorothy Richardson, Aldous Huxley, D. H. Lawrence, John Galsworthy, H.G. Wells, Theodore Dreiser. There is a single stamp, small and light, to the half title page, otherwise clean and bright.

Spafford BooksProfessional seller

Book number: 129764

Catalogue: Literature And Fiction

Keywords: British Literature, British Literature, English Fiction, Essays, Literary Criticism, Literature - Britain 0156214504

Woolf, Virginia

Contemporary Writers

London, The Hogarth Press, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo. 160 pp. Very fine in very fine dustwrapper. As new. /Dust Jacket Included.

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Book number: 31538

Catalogue: Gift Suggestions

Keywords: Electronic List TBCL Virginia Woolf & Bloomsbury