The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays
by Woolf, Virginia
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
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Hartland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
London: Hogarth Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1950. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Maroon cloth boards, slight fading to extremities with mild offsetting to endpapers, binding secure and corners square. Pictorial dj price clipped, with two closed tears bottom of front panel (1" and 2"), small chipping along top edge, rubbed with darkened spine, now in protective mylar. ; MCF01982; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 223 pp .
Synopsis
These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. "This book contains...the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading" (Katherine Anne Porter). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
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- Bookseller
- McCormick Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 21089
- Title
- The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1950
- Keywords
- Literature Fiction Essays Short Stories
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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McCormick Books
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Hartland, Michigan
About McCormick Books
Mail order book store specializing in Genealogy, History and Michigan History.
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