WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series
WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series. London: The Hogarth Press. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the sumptuous dust jacket designed by the author’s sister, Vanessa Bell. A splendid copy of the first edition, very well-preserved; the cloth clean, bright, and sharp, the binding tight and square. The textblock slightly spotted with some very mild spots to endpapers and prelims, then often fine without inscriptions or stamps. The original dust jacket complete, not priced as called for, slightly nicked to corners and spine head, the spine a touch darkened with some faint spots to panels, but a bright, fresh and vibrant example.
The second ‘The Common Reader’—the first published in 1925—which aims to celebrate reading for reading’s sake. Woolf’s vast eye covers many subjects; some Elizabethans, John Donne, Jonathan Swift, Thomas de Quincey, Laurence Sterne, Christina Rossetti, and many, many others, with a focus on unprofessional criticism, i.e. the common reader’s approach to the classics, and how to navigate a book. Published in an edition of 3200 copies. [Kirkpatrick A18; Woolmer 315].
WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series. London: The Hogarth Press. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the sumptuous dust jacket designed by the author’s sister, Vanessa Bell. A splendid copy of the first edition, very well-preserved; the cloth clean, bright, and sharp, the binding tight and square. The textblock slightly spotted with some very mild spots to endpapers and prelims, then often fine without inscriptions or stamps. The original dust jacket complete, not priced as called for, slightly nicked to corners and spine head, the spine a touch darkened with some faint spots to panels, but a bright, fresh and vibrant example.
The second ‘The Common Reader’—the first published in 1925—which aims to celebrate reading for reading’s sake. Woolf’s vast eye covers many subjects; some Elizabethans, John Donne, Jonathan Swift, Thomas de Quincey, Laurence Sterne, Christina Rossetti, and many, many others, with a focus on unprofessional criticism, i.e. the common reader’s approach to the classics, and how to navigate a book. Published in an edition of 3200 copies. [Kirkpatrick A18; Woolmer 315].
WOOLF, Virginia. The Common Reader: Second Series. London: The Hogarth Press. 1932. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s green cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the sumptuous dust jacket designed by the author’s sister, Vanessa Bell. A splendid copy of the first edition, very well-preserved; the cloth clean, bright, and sharp, the binding tight and square. The textblock slightly spotted with some very mild spots to endpapers and prelims, then often fine without inscriptions or stamps. The original dust jacket complete, not priced as called for, slightly nicked to corners and spine head, the spine a touch darkened with some faint spots to panels, but a bright, fresh and vibrant example.
The second ‘The Common Reader’—the first published in 1925—which aims to celebrate reading for reading’s sake. Woolf’s vast eye covers many subjects; some Elizabethans, John Donne, Jonathan Swift, Thomas de Quincey, Laurence Sterne, Christina Rossetti, and many, many others, with a focus on unprofessional criticism, i.e. the common reader’s approach to the classics, and how to navigate a book. Published in an edition of 3200 copies. [Kirkpatrick A18; Woolmer 315].