WOOLF, Virginia. The Death of the Moth
WOOLF, Virginia. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. London: The Hogarth Press. 1942. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. A very good copy, the cloth a touch discoloured towards the top edges, the gilt a trifle dulled. The binding tight and square, with contemporary ownership inscription to the front endpaper. A few spots to the textblock edges, with a handful of singular spots within, but usually very clean. The dust jacket priced 9s net to the spine which is a trifle darkened, with several small nicks, creases and bumps to most edges. Nevertheless a presentable copy.
The posthumously published third volume of essays—after her two popular volumes of ‘The Common Reader’—which might well have been a more substantial volume but for her death in 1941. The volume contains some essays which already appeared in journals as well as some unpublished work. The titular story is a striking one, albeit very short, and one wonders what might have come of many of these essays had Woolf properly revised and rewrote them as was her custom. Leonard Woolf expresses similar concern in his preface, regaling finding seven or eight revisions of a short book review Woolf produced for a newspaper shortly before her death.
WOOLF, Virginia. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. London: The Hogarth Press. 1942. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. A very good copy, the cloth a touch discoloured towards the top edges, the gilt a trifle dulled. The binding tight and square, with contemporary ownership inscription to the front endpaper. A few spots to the textblock edges, with a handful of singular spots within, but usually very clean. The dust jacket priced 9s net to the spine which is a trifle darkened, with several small nicks, creases and bumps to most edges. Nevertheless a presentable copy.
The posthumously published third volume of essays—after her two popular volumes of ‘The Common Reader’—which might well have been a more substantial volume but for her death in 1941. The volume contains some essays which already appeared in journals as well as some unpublished work. The titular story is a striking one, albeit very short, and one wonders what might have come of many of these essays had Woolf properly revised and rewrote them as was her custom. Leonard Woolf expresses similar concern in his preface, regaling finding seven or eight revisions of a short book review Woolf produced for a newspaper shortly before her death.
WOOLF, Virginia. The Death of the Moth and Other Essays. London: The Hogarth Press. 1942. 8vo. First edition. Publisher’s blue cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. A very good copy, the cloth a touch discoloured towards the top edges, the gilt a trifle dulled. The binding tight and square, with contemporary ownership inscription to the front endpaper. A few spots to the textblock edges, with a handful of singular spots within, but usually very clean. The dust jacket priced 9s net to the spine which is a trifle darkened, with several small nicks, creases and bumps to most edges. Nevertheless a presentable copy.
The posthumously published third volume of essays—after her two popular volumes of ‘The Common Reader’—which might well have been a more substantial volume but for her death in 1941. The volume contains some essays which already appeared in journals as well as some unpublished work. The titular story is a striking one, albeit very short, and one wonders what might have come of many of these essays had Woolf properly revised and rewrote them as was her custom. Leonard Woolf expresses similar concern in his preface, regaling finding seven or eight revisions of a short book review Woolf produced for a newspaper shortly before her death.