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Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941. THE COMMON READER. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: Octavo; G; Hardcover; Spine, brown with faded gold print; Boards in brown cloth, wear to spine caps and corners, else clean and strong; Text block has name/address in ink on front endpapers, else clean and tight; 332 pages. 1362616. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace, 1925.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover / No jacket / Red boards / Sunstruck spine otherwise VG throughout / First American edition
Seller: Ridge Road Sight And Sound, North Arlington, NJ, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. NY Harcourt, Brace & Co (1925)., 1925.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: VG. Slight wear spine ends & corner, owner's inscription front endpaper.
Seller: Crabtree's Collection Old Books, Sebago, ME, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace and World Co, 1925.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES good 8vo hardcover without dust jacket, tanned, cover has nicks and chips, else clean pages, prompt shipping and tracking
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. The Common Reader.. NY: Harcourt Brace and Company, 1925.
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. No dust jacket. Minor cover wear. Clean unmarked text. Tight binding.
Seller: Dewey Books PTMD, Port Tobacco, MD, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: Hill Country Books, Ctr Sandwich, NH, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1 1/2" brown stain on the fore .edge. Owners name on the ffep. Lettering on the spine is indistinct.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. THE COMMON READER. Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1925.
Price: US$52.20 + shipping
Description: THE COMMON READER, Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1925, first American edition, light wear and fraying to the spine extremities and fore edge corner tips, else a tight vg copy. 1/2,000 copies. Contains a 16 page essay not included in the British edition.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
WOOLF, VIRGINIA. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$52.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Red cloth with stamped and gilt decorations. Spine dulled, browning to the outer page edges. Previous owner's signature to the front endpage.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader [First Series]. Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York, 1925.
Price: US$56.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [2], 332 p.; 23 cm. Original red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; double blind-ruled border on front board with blind-stamped publisher's emblem. Lacking dust jacket. The first U.S. edition, which includes one essay, "Miss Ormerod", not found in the first English edition. Contents: The Common Reader -- The Pastons and Chaucer -- On Not Knowing Greek -- The Elizabethan Lumber Room -- Notes on an Elizabethan Play -- Montaigne -- The Duchess of Newcastle -- Rambling round Evelyn -- Defoe -- Addison -- The Lives of the Obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths; Laetitia Pilkington; Miss Ormerod -- Jane Austen -- Modern Fiction -- "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" -- George Eliot -- The Russian Point of View -- Outlines: Miss Mitford; Dr. Bentley; Lady Dorothy Nevill; Archbishop Thomson -- The Patron and the Crocus -- The Modern Essay -- Joseph Conrad -- How It Strikes a Contemporary. In Very Good Condition: spine title gilt has oxidized, as usual; corners rubbed; upper back corner frayed and bumped; head of spine just starting to fray; first few leaves foxed; only very occasional foxing elsewhere and otherwise clean.
Seller: Classic Books and Ephemera, IOBA, Lansdowne, PA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Common Reader. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First American Edition, red cloth covers, gilt lettering on spine, 332 pages. ; 6 x 8 3/4 "
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, N.Y., 1925.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good Hardcover 1925, first edition with "A" on copyright page slight fading and wear on spine, previous owner's name on flyleaf
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
WOOLF, VIRGINIA. The Common Reader. Harcourt Brace & Co., 1925.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small tear top of spine; repaired ; 7.40 X 4.30 X 0.90 inches
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia.. The Common Reader. Harcourt Brace, NY, 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Harcourt Brace, 1925, first printing. 8vo., 332 pp. Red cloth with gilt titles. Spine cloth sunned, lettering dull but legible, slight wear at the tips, heel and crown, bookplate on front pastedown, next to last fly leaf opened roughly, light random foxing to first few sheets, otherwise clean, square, tight. Very good. Size: 8vo.
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1925.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in red woven cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Spine lettering darkened, bookseller's sticker inside back cover, foxing on paper edges only-none visible when pages opened-, old inscription on front endpaper. Nice clean book.
Seller: Kerkhoff Books DIV KSI, Warsaw, IN, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia.. THE COMMON READER.. New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1925.), 1925.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First US printing. Her first collection of literary pieces - on authors ranging from Chaucer to Defoe to Jane Austen and the Brontes. Includes one essay - "Miss Ormerod" in Lives of the Obscure which was not in the UK edition. 332 pp. Good condition overall in red cloth - fraying to the ends of the spine, and rubbing and darkening to the spine, some light toning to the pages - some pages still unopened.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace & Co, New York, 1925.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 332pp. Red cloth boards, gilt titles on spine, blindstamped logo on front board. Mild wear to spine ends and extremities. Even toning to pages, no other marks or staining internally. Dust jacket is missing about half an inch at head and foot of spine. Splits along front gutter of jacket. Original price on front flap. Jacket in mylar sleeve. Ad for Second Common Reader on back jacket flap.
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition. Later bookplate, spine lettering dull but readable, small stain on front board, very good lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1925.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dark red boards. DJ toned, has loss to top spine and top front corners. DJ in protective cover. Pages clean, toned. Binding tight and square.
Seller: onourshelves, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
WOOLF, VIRGINIA.. THE COMMON READER.. Harcourt, Brace and Company., New York, 1925.
Price: US$192.41 + shipping
Description: FIRST US EDITION. 8vo. 8.75 x 6 inches. 332 pp. Bound in original red cloth, gilt, blind stamped borders enclosing the device on front board. Rough cut fore edge. A little wear to extremities, including head and tail of spine, which is sunned. Some scattered foxing largely confined to edges and preliminaries. 1928 inscription on first free endpaper. Decorated by publisher's device on title page and by head and tailpiece vignettes. First US edition of the first series of essays by Virginia Woolf published as The Common Reader in 1925. Over twenty literary essays written in language that could be readily understood by the average reader. The topics covered include The Pastons and Chaucer, the Elizabethan play, the Duchess of Newcastle, Evelyn, Defoe, Addington, Jane Austen and the Brontes, George Eliot, Miss Mitford and The Russian Point of View. ART / LITERATURE ESSAYS LIT. NON-FICTION ESSAYS 20TH CENTURY FIRST EDITION ART / LITERATURE
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. THE COMMON READER. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 332 pages; VG-/G+; spine brown, with dark brown lettering and green design; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; some shelf wear and soiling to jacket; mild shelf wear and soiling to volume; marked age-toning to jacket overall; large chip missing at upper right corner of jacket front; small chips missing at upper edge of jacket front; two-inch closed tear repaired at inside of jacket with tape at upper edge of jacket front; crown and tail of jacket spine missing; significant age-toning to spine; two water stains and two small dark stains to jacket back; small chip missing at upper left corner of jacket back; price cut; previous owner's inscription at front free endpaper; pages 327-332 uncut; pages clean; CX consignment; shelved Case 2. 1346347. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader. Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 332 p. 22 cm. Navy cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket darkened on exterior and top edges of flaps. Chips in head and heel of jacket spine and some stains. Gilt wearing thin on spine. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Occasional spots on darkened pages. The author wrote essays on Chaucer, Montaigne, the Duchess of Newcastle, Evelyn, Defoe, Addison, Austen, the Brontes, George Eliot, Joseph Conrad, etc. Kirkpatrick A.8(b).
Seller: Attic Books (ABAC, ILAB), London, ON, Canada
VIRGINIA WOOLF. THE COMMON READER. HARCOURT, BRACE & COMPANY, NEW YORK, 1925.
Price: US$333.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. HARDBACK BOUND IN AN EARLY-MID 20TH CENTURY HALF LEATHER BINDING, MARBLED BOARDS & ENDPAPERS. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 X 6 INCHES WITH 332 PAGES. SOME SPLITS TO LEATHER AT OUTER FRONT & REAR HINGES WITH MINOR RESTORATION SUCH AS GLUE BEING APPLIED TO SPLITS BUT BOTH BOARDS ARE HOLDING FIRM, LIGHT WEAR AT TOP & BOTTOM OF SPINE WITH SOME MINOR RUBBING TO BANDS ON SPINE, FRONT ENDPAPER IS PARTIALLY DETACHED AT INNER MARGINS, COUPLE OF PENCIL NUMBER TO LAST TEXT PAGE MARGINS. OVERALL THE BOOK IS VERY GOOD & CLEAN INTERNALLY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. THE COMMON READER. Harcourt Brace & Company 1925 (1944), 1925.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ; Navy cloth cover is rubbed on corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and in very good condition. Dust jacket is toned, particularly on spine, with light chipping at extremities and a couple of tears but clean and in good condition. DJ flap is price clipped. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust jacket. )
Seller: Sage Rare & Collectible Books, IOBA, Livonia, MI, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader [First Series]. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 332pp. NAP. First American Edition. Contents: The Common Reader, The Pastons and Chaucer, On Not Knowing Greek, The Elizabethan Lumber Room, Notes on an Elizabethan Play, Montaigne, The Duchess of Newcastle, Rambling Round Evelyn, Defoe, Addison, The Lives of the Obscure: (I.) The Taylors and the Edgeworths, (II.) Laetitia Pilkington, (III.) Miss Omerod [evidently published in the American First Edition, but not in the British First Edition], Jane Austen, Modern Fiction, 'Jane Eyre' and 'Wuthering Heights'. George Eliot, The Russian Point of View, Outlines---(I.) Miss Mitford, (II.) Dr, Bentley, (III.) Lady Dorothy Nevill, (IV.) Archbishop Thomson, The Patron and the Crocus, The Modern Essay, Joseph Conrad, How it Strikes a Contemporary. Red boards with dulled gilt (eminently readable) on spine; text lightly, uniformly age-toned. Blind-stamped linear decorative elements on perimeters of front cover, along with blind-stamped publisher logo at center front cover; beveled fore-edge; last four pages uncut; large offsetting area on ffep from page edge right to hinge (5 1/2" x 6 3/4") and onto inside front cover (for 2 1/4" x 6 3/4")), sharply limited by dustwrapper panel edge (perhaps a newsprint item once stored there (if so, not found). Toned dustwrapper price-clipped with title in brown across top half front cover, author name lettering in brown across bottom front cover, Green vase with two brown flowers on right side lower half front cover (Vanessa Bell design); rear cover contains Harcourt, Brace advertisement for "Unusual Collections of Modern Writing" (12 listings). Dustwrapper price-clipped with thin strip missing across foot of spine and slightly larger strip missing across top spine, with pieces missing at top corners; pieces missing at cover corners; two 1/2" holes at left spine edge near middle , with closed tear between the holes (NO impact on book itself at any of the hole or chip locations); dustwrapper spine browned (all lettering still eminently readable: Long in mylar which forgives all transgressions graciously. Book Binding barely, weakly cracked between pp. 62-63 (binding still held together) and at four other places, signatures relaxed (Binding NOT floppy, not cracked). Previous owner name at top ffep was in pencil and long ago erased, leaving cursive indents, else Clean text.
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
WOOLF, VIRGINIA. The Common Reader. Harcourt Brace & Co, New York, 1925.
Price: US$753.93 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Red cloth gilt lettered on spine (oxidized) in pictorial (Vanessa Bell) dust jacket. Her first book of collected essays and quite scarce. Dust jacket has been archivally mended on the rear covering a one inch chip to bottom of spine. Small stain and general over all wear but still an attractive copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader.. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$975.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this classic collection of Woolf's critical essays. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell. Woolf's second collection of critical writings, this volume contains twenty-six essays on the most brilliant figures in three centuries of English literature ranging from the magnificent Jack Mytton, and Mary, the high-handed, hot-blooded wife of Shelley, to the little, whimsical, religious Christina Rossetti and the bedeviled George Gissing. Other essays critique the work and character of Defoe, Swift, Hazlitt, Hardy, and Meredith.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Common Reader.. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$1603.45 + shipping
Description: First US edition, first printing, uncommon in the original dust jacket, published only a couple of weeks after the first UK edition. This is the first of the two volumes of Woolf's Common Reader, each series being a discrete work in its own right; the second was published in 1932. The Common Reader series comprise critical essays, articles, and book reviews that had previously appeared in various publications. "Woolf was trying to bring imagination and cohesion to a disparate collection, unified only by her approach and personality. The Times itself saw Woolf as 'a novelist deliberately using her creative imagination' and praised her for 'conduct[ing] us not into the classroom but out of it'" (Clarke, introduction). Kirkpatrick A8b. Stuart N. Clarke (ed.), The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929-1932, 2017. Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, border and publisher's device in blind to front cover, outer and bottom edge untrimmed. Faint toning to foot of front cover, foxing to edges, contents generally fresh and clean. A very good copy indeed, in very good dust jacket, a little toned and rubbed, head of spine panel creased with small chip and nick, short closed tear to front flap at fold, front panel remaining quite bright.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Common Reader.. Harcourt Brace and Company, New York, 1925.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: 332 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First American edition. Small hole in rear free endpaper; ink signature; otherwise a fine copy in a fine jacket. A spectacular copy of a very scarce book.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. THE COMMON READER. Harcourt Brace, (1925), New York, 1925.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada