The Common Reader
by Woolf, Virginia
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
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Granville, New York, United States
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About This Item
NY: Harcourt Brace, 1925. First American edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Harcourt Brace, 1925, first printing. 8vo., 332 pp. Red cloth with gilt titles. Spine cloth sunned, lettering dull but legible, slight wear at the tips, heel and crown, bookplate on front pastedown, next to last fly leaf opened roughly, light random foxing to first few sheets, otherwise clean, square, tight. Very good.. 1st. Hard. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo..
Synopsis
Woolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.” Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
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- The Wild Muse
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003209
- Title
- The Common Reader
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1925
- Keywords
- VIRGINIA WOOLF ESSAYS CRITICISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literary & Modern First Editions;
- Size
- 8vo.
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Literary and modern first editions. Established 1985. Mail order only.
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