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Virginia Woolf. The Common Reader Second Edition. Hogarth Press, Leonard and VCirgina Woolf, 1925.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 6 X 8.5 inches. 305 pages. Blue buckram cloth hardcover with gilt type on spine. Crushed top and bottom of spine This is a rebound library copy with stickers on cover, stamps on end pages, tape reenforced hinges. A few pages with pencil or ink notations. Stated"Second Edition, November 1925". READING COPY ONLY.
Seller: Ally Press Center, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. Bibliotech Press, 1925.
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Condition: New
Description: Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. Über den AutorrnrnVirginia Woolf was a luminous novelist, a prolific essayist and book reviewer, and a diarist. With her husband Leonard, Woolf established and ran the Hogarth Press which published works by influential modernist writers. In.
Seller: moluna, Greven, Germany
Virginia Woolf.. The Common Reader.. Hogarth Press, London 1925, 1925.
Price: US$57.76 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second edition. Hardback. Octavo. 305pp. Original grey cloth with printed paper spine label. Some marks to covers, spine slightly faded with slight rubbing to label and short tear to head, slight scattered foxing to contents, otherwise about very good. No jacket.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. The Common Reader. Hogarth Press, 1925.
Price: US$60.59 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback. Clean copy in good condition. This book is the Second Edition, published at Hogarth Press in 1925. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. The Common Reader. The Hogarth Press, 1925.
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Condition: Very Good
Description: A good copy in blue cloth with pastedown label to spine. Second edition published same year as first. Foxing to endpapers and titles page.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia:. The Common Reader.. London: The Hogarth Press, 1925., 1925.
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Description: Second edition. 305 pp. Grey cloth. Pastedown label on spine. Some light staining on boards. Overall VG. No dust wrapper.
Seller: Owl Books, County Leitrim, Ireland
WOOLF, Virginia. The common reader. Hogarth Press, 1925.
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Description: 2nd edition of (unstated) first series, November 1925. Light scattered foxing. Owner's name and gift inscription on front free endpaper. Grey cloth a little soiled, browned on spine with small hole in the centre of browned title panel. Binding tight. Used - Good. Good hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader. The Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$121.93 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Lacks spine pictorial white boards over grey cloth with flowers in green vase cover design. Worn and grubby. Otherwise tight copy with clean pages. One of 1250 copies. Ex college library with decorative bookplate on front edge paper. 305pp
Seller: valley books, Holton, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader. Hogarth Press, 1925.
Price: US$260.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: a previous owner's signature under the front board there is light sporadic foxing. original boards are shelf rubbed and somewhat marked. the binding is excellent.very small repaired tear at the top of the spine. (R*FH). Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Price: US$320.87 + shipping
Description: The Hogarth Press. 1925. First edition. No DW. Upper board decorated by Vanessa Bell. Boards soiled. Corners very bumped and worn, head of spine pulled and frayed, tail crumpled, outer edges of pages foxed. Library borrowing plate to rear pastedown but no other stamps or signs of library use. Generally a sound copy.
Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$449.22 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 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'.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'. '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
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Palmer, Herbert E.. Songs of Salvation Sin and Satire. Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
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Description: First edition, one of about 300 copies. 32 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. "I am sure my printing Mr. Palmer's poems, as I did this Summer, gave him more intense pleasure than all the Common Readers and Mrs Dalloways I shall ever write gave the rest of the world" Virginia Woolf to Vita Sackville-West, 1 September 1925, cited by Rhein. Poems by the author of Two Fishers (1918), Two Foemen (1920), Two Minstrels (1921), and The Unknown Warrior (1924). Hand printed by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. Woolmer 72; Rhein, pp. 53-4 Marbled paper boards, title label. Some toning and foxing to binding. Near fine. 1928 gift inscription. Boxed
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$577.57 + shipping
Description: Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper bards. Extremities marked and dulled, lightly rubbed. Scattered foxing, contemporary inked gift inscription and bookplate of Constance Miles to FEP - likely the noted diarist Constance Miles [nà e Nicoll] (1881-1962). The first edition of Woolf's collected essays treating on a wide variety of literary topics; from medieval England to tsarist Russia, Elizabethan playwrights, and eighteenth- and nineteenth-century novelists including Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Joseph Conrad. Constance Miles [nà e Nicoll] (1881-1962), bibliophile and diarist, who lived for much of her life in Shere, Surrey, where she wrote her war journals, published as Mrs Miles's Diary: the Wartime Journal of a Housewife on the Home Front (2013). She was the eldest daughter of Sir William Robertson Nicoll, founder of two successful periodicals, the nonconformist The British Weekly, and The Bookman; and sometime literary advisor to Hodder and Stoughton. He knew many of their authors personally, amongst them Winston Churchill and J. M. Barrie; the latter Constance knew as a young girl. In her diaries she credited her passion for books and writing for getting her through the war. In 1940, she grieved the loss of the works of the publishing houses of Paternoster Row destroyed by fire: 'Five to six million books have perished. Oh, the brave, bright paper jackets, the lovely purple colours, the crisp, unopened pages, the quips and crank, the love scenes and the thoughtful essays, the learned remarks, the verses and the valuable photographs, the pure new bindings in red and yellow, blue and mauve and olive green, the messages and signals to the human race that were embraced by the horrible flames!' Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Woolf (Virginia). The Common Reader.. Hogarth Press, 1925.
Price: US$641.74 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, first issue, some light foxing to prelims, recurrent at close, pp. 305, crown 8vo, original white boards backed with grey cloth, the upper board with an illustration by Vanessa Bell printed in green and brown, backstrip lettered in black and a little browned, a little wear at backstrip ends, nicked at head with tape-shadow to the same, light wear at corners and a touch of fading to board edges, lightly handled, contemporary ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal to flyleaf (see below), good. The copy of artist Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles), a friend of Carrington from the Slade who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing and had relationships with Clive Bell, Saxon Sydney Turner, David Garnett and John Maynard Keynes. (Kirkpatrick A8a; Woolmer 81)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The common reader. Hogarth Press, 1925.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good copy with a darkened spine, worn corners and wear to all edges. Toning to the binding and streaks to the blank rear.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia.. The Common Reader.. London: Hogarth Press, 1925., 1925.
Price: US$675.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press ." Original cream boards, with green and brown decorations by Vanessa Bell; covers lightly soiled and age-toned at edges, grey cloth spine sunned, but most of lettering still clear (that at foot of spine a bit rubbed); contents excellent. A very good copy.
Seller: Wilfrid M. de Freitas - Bookseller, ABAC, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$1026.79 + shipping
Description: Beautiful examples of Virginia Woolf's two great essay collections that were published in her lifetime. The first volume is in first edition grey cloth-backed paper covered boards to Vanessa Bell's design, a bright clean copy, internally unmarked, a near fine copy. The second volume is in publisher's green cloth which is brightly attractive and in near fine condition in a very good example of Vanessa Bell's dustjacket, light foxing to lower panel of jacket and a small chip at the head of the spine. Among the essays are Woolf's thoughts on Jane Austen, the Brontes and 'How Should One Read a Book?'. In the case of these two books, read and marvel. Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item
Seller: Christian White Rare Books Ltd, Ilkley, YORKS, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. The Common Reader. The Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$3593.77 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Common Reader by Virginia Woolf. The Hogarth Press, London 1925. A scarce first edition copy of Woolf's collection of letters and essays with a dust jacket. In very good condition. Some of the stories in The Common Reader originally appeared in various prominent newspapers of the time, while others appear for the first time in the book. Original pictorial brown and green cloth backed boards. Light browning to the spine and edges. Bright clean front cover. Browned end papers with bookplate on the front paste down. Occasional light foxing on the front pages and clean throughout the book. Tight bindings. The dust jacket is a little browned with wear to the folds. Light chipping to the upper edges. Portion of loss to the lower edge of the spine.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
WOOLF VIRGINIA. THE COMMON READER. Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$4492.21 + shipping
Description: (Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the The Hogarth Press 1925). First UK Edition. First Series: Original grey cloth-backed Vanessa Bell designed boards in green and brown, titles to spine in black with the cream D/W also designed by Vanessa Bell A neat book-plate on the front paste-down otherwise a VG+ copy in a D/W that has benefitted from some skilful restoration by one of the Worlds leading archivists and now shows as a VG example. Scans invited
Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom
Price: US$9419.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. 1925. Second Edition. Printed in November the same year as the first printing which was in April. Hard Cover. Publisher's pale blue cloth. Knocking to corners, some spine wear at both ends. Black titles blocked in to spine panel which is rubbed . Titles still legible. Prelims are a little foxed but the text block is clean and unmarked. Binding is firm; hinges tight. The front endpaper bears the author's signature in purple ink and there is a gift inscription from Naomi Mitchison, a Scottish novelist and poet. Often called a doyenne of Scottish literature, she wrote over 90 books of historical and science fiction, travel writing and autobiography. The provenance of this book has not been professionally authenticated but the signatures appear genuine. For socialist writer Naomi Mitchison, Woolf was an answer to some of the most profound questions in life. I took it for granted she would always be there. Mitchison wrote that she reread Woolfs books frequently, and knew many bits by heart. Please see photographs for a copy of a letter than Woolf wrote to Mitchison from her home in Tavistock Square after the publication of To The Lighthouse in 1927. Most of the essays appeared originally in such publications as the Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Athenæum, New Statesman, Life and Letters, Dial, Vogue, and The Yale Review. The title indicates Woolfs intention that her essays be read by the common reader who reads books for personal enjoyment. It explores the rich history of literature and English writing from the classical period to what was the present day of 1925 when the book was first published.
Seller: Libris Books, Bristol, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Common Reader.. London: The Hogarth Press, 1925, 1925.
Price: US$14118.38 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, first issue binding, in an unusually nice copy of the jacket; this is one of Woolf's scarcest books to find in dust jacket, and seldom in such nice condition. It 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 A8a; Woolmer 81. Stuart N. Clarke, ed., The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929-1932, 2017. Octavo. Original grey cloth-backed pictorial boards, designed by Vanessa Bell, spine lettered in black. With dust jacket. Bottom edge slightly bumped with a touch of wear, boards mildly toned remaining bright, minor foxing to edges, internally crisp and clean. An excellent copy in the scarce jacket, lightly browned, spine ends and tips lightly chipped, couple of closed tears at edges; a very well-preserved example.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$14500.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Woolf, Virginia. THE COMMON READER. SECOND SERIES. Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$14750.00 + shipping
Description: 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).
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada