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The Voyage Out
by Woolf, Virginia
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
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About This Item
London: Duckworth & Co, 1915. First Edition. Trial Binding. Very Good. First edition, first printing. [iv], 458, [8 ads], 16 ads pp. The author's first book. Bound in what appears to be a publisher's trial binding: dark blue cloth triple ruled in blind on upper board, with spine lettered in gilt and decorated with floral device in blind; lacking the dust jacket. J. Kirkpatrick notes a similar apparition appearing almost three-quarters of a century ago in A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf, "a copy in red cloth, lettered in gold on the spine and on the upper cover, with the floral device and motto in blind on the lower cover, was advertised in Raphael King Ltd's catalogue No. 52 (1951) and is now in the Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton University Library. It is probably a trial binding." In contrast, the usual trade binding is green cloth with the spine lettered in gilt, and paneled title block in black to upper board.
Very Good. Slight lean to binding, light edge wear to cloth. Spine ends bruised, blemish to spine and gilt dulled. Foxing to textblock edge, former owner name and date to front free endpaper, endsheets browned and pages toned, hinge at rear endsheet is lightly exposed at the ends. Woolf began writing her first novel in 1910 and completed several drafts before its publication in 1915. It was a difficult five years for Woolf in which she suffered from bouts of depression and a suicide attempt, but the final work contained seeds of what would later become her trademark: an innovative narrative style, a focus on feminine consciousness, sexuality and death.
Very Good. Slight lean to binding, light edge wear to cloth. Spine ends bruised, blemish to spine and gilt dulled. Foxing to textblock edge, former owner name and date to front free endpaper, endsheets browned and pages toned, hinge at rear endsheet is lightly exposed at the ends. Woolf began writing her first novel in 1910 and completed several drafts before its publication in 1915. It was a difficult five years for Woolf in which she suffered from bouts of depression and a suicide attempt, but the final work contained seeds of what would later become her trademark: an innovative narrative style, a focus on feminine consciousness, sexuality and death.
Synopsis
From the book:As the streets that lead from the Strand to the Embankment are very narrow, it is better not to walk down them arm-in-arm. If you persist, lawyers’ clerks will have to make flying leaps into the mud; young lady typists will have to fidget behind you. In the streets of London where beauty goes unregarded, eccentricity must pay the penalty, and it is better not to be very tall, to wear a long blue cloak, or to beat the air with your left hand. One afternoon in the beginning of October when the traffic was becoming brisk a tall man strode along the edge of the pavement with a lady on his arm. Angry glances struck upon their backs. The small, agitated figures - for in comparison with this couple most people looked small - decorated with fountain pens, and burdened with despatch-boxes, had appointments to keep, and drew a weekly salary, so that there was some reason for the unfriendly stare which was bestowed upon Mr. Ambrose’s height and upon Mrs. Ambrose’s cloak. But some enchantment had put both man and woman beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips that it was thought; and in hers from the eyes fixed stonily straight in front of her at a level above the eyes of most that it was sorrow. It was only by scorning all she met that she kept herself from tears, and the friction of people brushing past her was evidently painful. After watching the traffic on the Embankment for a minute or two with a stoical gaze she twitched her husband’s sleeve, and they crossed between the swift discharge of motor cars. When they were safe on the further side, she gently withdrew her arm from his, allowing her mouth at the same time to relax, to tremble; then tears rolled down, and leaning her elbows on the balustrade, she shielded her face from the curious. Mr. Ambrose attempted consolation; he patted her shoulder; but she showed no signs of admitting him, and feeling it awkward to stand beside a grief that was greater than his, he crossed his arms behind him, and took a turn along the pavement.
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- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140944870
- Title
- The Voyage Out
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Trial Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Duckworth & Co
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1915
- Keywords
- Trial Binding
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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