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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
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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.
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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