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