THE WHIRLIGIG OF TASTE [HOGARTH LECTURES ON LITERATURE, FIRST SERIES, NO. 8]
by KELLETT, E. E
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Tavistock Square, London: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929. Octavo. Orange cloth lettered in red; orange dust jacket lettered in red. 160 pp. 7 ½ x 4 ⅞ Toe of spine appears to have been exposed to some damp as does the dust jacket in this area (see photo), none of which has bled to the textblock; offsetting to the endsheets, tiny Cambridge UK bookseller's label to front pastedown, else good in the aforementioned dust jacket with minor chips at crown and toe of spine.
First edition, published April 1929 at 3s.6d.; 2,250 copies printed. "This volume is an important contribution to the history of criticism. It deals historically with the variations of literary opinion .... " -- from the dust jacket facing panel. Kellett disabused absolutists of the notion that books are read the same way by successive generations.
. WOOLMER 197.
First edition, published April 1929 at 3s.6d.; 2,250 copies printed. "This volume is an important contribution to the history of criticism. It deals historically with the variations of literary opinion .... " -- from the dust jacket facing panel. Kellett disabused absolutists of the notion that books are read the same way by successive generations.
. WOOLMER 197.
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- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 414
- Title
- THE WHIRLIGIG OF TASTE [HOGARTH LECTURES ON LITERATURE, FIRST SERIES, NO. 8]
- Author
- KELLETT, E. E
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press
- Place of Publication
- Tavistock Square, London
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Literary criticism
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