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Price: US$86.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an actual 1926 Hardcover edition Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 52 Tavistock Square, London, W.C.I 1926. No dust jacket. Spine is torn, heavily rubbed, chipped and shows high rubbing and wear. None of the original text or markings remain and spine is now the brick red of the underboards. Outside edges show some HEAVY chipping, rubbing, degredation and flaking. Overall this book shows some heavy wear on spine and edges and definitely shows it's age. Pages are browned from age but overall in good condition. Some underlining, notes, sidelining and marks in the margins in pencil.
Seller: Half Moon Books, Kingston, NY, U.S.A.
Stein, Gertrude. Composition as Explanation (Hogarth Essays). The Hogarth Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 59 pp. Neutral, pictorial cloth boards are cellophane-covered. Boards are worn at the extremities. Endpages are foxed and there is toning thoughout. Pencilled notes on endpages. Binding is starting to split at title page. Handwritten marginalia on the first 14 pages doesn't interfere with the text. Offsetting on pages 14-15. Small green Gotham Book Mart (NYC) sticker on back board. Published by writers and Bloomsbury Group founding members Virginia & Leonard Woolf, it includes two additional essays, "Rochester" by Bonamy Dobree and "Impenetrability" by Robert Graves. A special first edition! Size: Duodecimo
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 17 cm, 62 pp plus 2 pp of publisher's catalogue, illus papered boards - corners have thin brown paper laid on. Foxing, mainly to first two and final two pages. Spine paper slightly burst, with small glue repairs. Good only - a serviceable copy.
Seller: Archway Books, Mana, New Zealand
Price: US$109.08 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Small octavo (approx 16.5 x 10.5 cm), pp. 61, [1], [2] catalogue. Publishers' pale green paper-covered boards with black titles to spine and "Hogarth Essays Second Series" and decoration to boards. Covers largely faded to brown, with small loss at spine tips and wear to corners. Endpapers lightly toned, with pencilled ownership signature of one 'A. Valette' to ffep; scattered light foxing, mainly to endpapers and prelims, otherwise contents clean and crisp. Scarce essay on the English language and its uses, by the British author and poet.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Description: 1st Ed. Crown 8vo. 62pp. + [ii]. With the signature of Wm. del Lamotte, e.ps. and edges lightly browned, original dec. boards, light browning particularly to spine. Higginson A22 Issued as Hogarth Essays, Second Series, Number III. Cover design by Vanessa Bell. US$140
Seller: Francis Edwards ABA ILAB, Hay on Wye, United Kingdom
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, 16mo, pp. 61, [3]; original green pictorial boards, edges and spine faded to tan, minute losses to spine ends, else very good and sound. Bookplate on front pastedown. Hogarth Essay, Second Series, no. 3. Cover design by Vanessa Bell. Higginson & Williams A22; Woolmer 93: "1,000 copies printed, 400 copies later pulped"
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 12mo, pp. 61, [3, ads]. Original green boards printed in black to a design by Vanessa Bell. Browned at spine and board edges, spine ends chipped. Scarce: ?Woolmer says 1,000 copies were printed of which 400 were pulpled? (H&W). Higginson & Williams A22; Woolmer 93.
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
GRAVES, Robert.. Impenetrability or The Proper Habit of English.. London: Hogarth Press, 1926.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 62 pp. Very good only in printed paper-covered boards with heavy wear and some loss to base and crown of spine and tips. Uneven tanning. Hogarth Essays, Second Series III.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.