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WOOLF, Virginia.. A Letter to a Young Poet.. London The Hogarth Press, 1932.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 X 7.25 inches, Wraps. Hand-sewn copy, as compared to the more common stapled edition. First edition; 12mo; light toning to leaves, otherwise unmarked internally; original pictorial wrappers, VG. The Hogarth Letters No. 8. This essay was first published in The Yale Review in June of 1932. There is a paste down label on the front end page "From the Library of Gertrude Lippincott". Gertrude Lippincott was nationally known Dancer, teacher and choreographer, especially influential in the Midwest. A Minnesota native, Lippincott founded the Modern Dance Center in Minneapolis, the first modern dance group and school in the area, in 1937.
Seller: Ally Press Center, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$33.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. original green cloth gilt (slightly rubbed & marked; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 270. A very good copy.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: London, UK: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. Used-Good/Used-Acceptable. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. 2ND IMPRESSION . 8vo., 270 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, chipped, cover edges darkened, pages lightly toned .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.19 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. original green cloth gilt (slightly rubbed & marked, prev. owner's name to FFE, erasure mark to verso title page, top edge a little dustmarked, else clean & bright; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 270. A very good copy.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Price: US$64.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: British edition, second printing, November 1932 (first printing was October 1932). No jacket. Green boards with gold lettering to spine are very good with a hint of pushing/bumping to corners, a few small marks, a little patchy browning (including to spine), the odd small bump/rub to edges and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Previous owner's name, date and address in pen to front end-paper. Odd small mark/minor foxing to page edges and tops. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to bottom edge of pages. Pages bit tanned. Occasional small marks/spots of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series. The Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$64.16 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st Edition, 2nd Impression. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Sunning to edges. Boards tidy. Shelf wear to cover. No jacket. Previous owner inscription on front end paper. Size: 8vo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
WOOLF, VIRGINIA. The Common Reader: Second Series. The Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Green cloth, gilt, faintly soiled. Interior has some foxing on the page edges, but the text block is clean. A collection of letters, most of them reprinted from magazines. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
WOOLF, VIRGINIA. The Common Reader: Second Series. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$112.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Gilt lettered green cloth. Lacking the dust jacket. Her second book of collected essays. A very good copy with shelfwear.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, no additional printings, Vanessa Bell dustjacket; 8vo, green cloth; good (boards bowed, soiled, and darkened; spine and edges toned and darkened; shelfworn; white candle wax removed from bottom edge of boards, rfep, and bottom edge; bump to bottom edge of front board; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; scrapes to side edge; eps and pages toned; cracked at pp80-1 and 176-7; tear to bottom edge of p21-2 and 196-7; top corners of pp105-18 creased; small chip to side margin of pp141-54, no loss of text; soil to bottom margins of pp174-5; crease to bottom margin of pp197-240) in poor dj (split in two where front panel and flap detached from spine, rear panel, and rear flap; toned, soiled, and stained; heavily chipped, torn, worn, and creased; large chips missing from edges of rear panel; spine ends torn off, text missing from 'The' and 'Press'); 270pp.
Seller: Page 1 Books - Special Collection Room, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$210.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, green cloth lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, unclipped; slightly soiled, with chipping to base of spine. First edition, one of 3200 copies printed. Woolmer 315. An attractive copy of a Woolf classic.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacket has a few chips along the top and bottom edges. A nice, crisp copy. ; 8vo ; 270 pages
Seller: Daedalus Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. cloth, dust jacket. 270 pages. Limited to 3,200 copies printed. Green cloth lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Soiled dust jacket chipped along edges, with a tape repair along the head of the spine. Head and tail of the cloth spine are lightly soiled. Loosely inserted are two pieces of ephemera: one for The Works of Virginia Woolf (The Hogarth Press) featuring thirteen works by Virginia Woolf. The second is a prospectus for four titles by Joiner & Steele, Ltd.
Seller: Oak Knoll Books, ABAA, ILAB, NEW CASTLE, DE, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series.. London, Hogarth Press, 1932., 1932.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Orig. green cloth with dust wrapper by Vanessa Bell. Dust wrapper is slightly darkened on the spine panel and somewhat aged overall, and is chipped shallowly at right side of head of spine and more deeply on both sides of tail of spine, though no lettering is touched (the chip on the left side of the tail just grazes the "H" and "P" of "The/Hogarth/Press"). Back panel of dust wrapper, which is blank, has some chipping along the top edge and a few short tears along the lower edge. Tiny bit of darkening to cloth at foot of spine where protection of dust jacket was lacking, book otherwise very good to near fine. Laid into book are a four-page 16mo leaflet from the Hogarth Press "The Works of Virginia Woolf" and three tearsheets from a contemporary magazine with an article by Woolf, "The love of reading." Pencil name and date of 1936 on front flyleaf.
Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series. Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$499.99 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original gilt-titled green cloth. Cloth faintly soiled/foxed. Text block edge slightly toned. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine, slightly edgeworn, mildly foxed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. The Common Reader: Second Series. The Hogarth Press, London, 1932.
Price: US$603.13 + shipping
Description: 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
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$2454.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition, 1932. Great association copy with a handwritten inscription by Lady Ottoline Morrell to her half-brother, William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland, with his armorial bookplate inside the front cover. Lady Ottoline was a great patron of literature and frequently hosted the Bloomsbury group, including Virginia Woolf, and developed a stormy relationship with her. In her memoirs, Lady Ottoline said: "She seemed to feel certain of her own eminence. It is true, but it is rather crushing, for I feel she is very contemptuous of other people. When I stretched out a hand to feel another woman, I found only a very lovely, clear intellect." Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, no dustjacket. Some modest shelfwear, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages. The inscription on the front free endpaper reads: "From Ottoline to my loved Brother" dated Dec 28 1932 (looks like 1922 but that is before the book was published). Below the bookplate is a bookseller ticket from London. Association Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Resource Books, LLC, East Granby, CT, U.S.A.