Roger Fry. A Biography.
by WOOLF, Virginia
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London, The Hogarth Press, 1940. . First edition; 8vo; portrait frontispiece, a further 15 black and white plates; publisher's green cloth, gilt lettering to spine, spine ends sunned, with the unclipped pictorial dustjacket by Vanessa Bell, slight loss to head of spine, small tears and creasing to extremities, historic repair to revers of top edge, mild soiling, else a very good example.
misc23 An unusually well-preserved copy of the author's sole book-length biography, written at the request of the family of the famous painter and member of the Bloomsbury group following his unexpected death in 1934. This is the last of Virginia Woolf's books published in her lifetime.
Kirkpatrick A25a.
misc23 An unusually well-preserved copy of the author's sole book-length biography, written at the request of the family of the famous painter and member of the Bloomsbury group following his unexpected death in 1934. This is the last of Virginia Woolf's books published in her lifetime.
Kirkpatrick A25a.
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- Bookseller
- Shapero Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 109296
- Title
- Roger Fry. A Biography.
- Author
- WOOLF, Virginia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London, The Hogarth Press, 1940.
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