The Wise Virgins A Novel
by Woolf, Leonard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151975116
- ISBN 13
- 9780151975112
- Seller
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The Woodlands, Texas, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket. 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 0151975116 . First American edition. With an Introduction by Ian Parsons. "The Wise Virgins, Leonard Woolf's second novel, was published in 1914, two years after his marriage to Virginia Stephen...the book was a somewhat perilous roman a clef based on his courtship of Virginia. Leonard's candid portrayal of the cultural disparities between his middle-class Jewish background and the liberated society of Bloomsbury, along with a penetrating analysis of the principal characters...proved especially offensive to his mother...the book was never reprinted in his lifetime..." - from the dust jacket. Ships same or next business day. Small discoloration near tail of fore-edge, head and tail of spine are gently bumped. Dust jacket is lightly discolored at spine and head-edge. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 247 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Good Books In The Woods (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52162
- Title
- The Wise Virgins A Novel
- Author
- Woolf, Leonard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0151975116
- ISBN 13
- 9780151975112
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- 0151975116
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