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A Room Of One's Own
by Woolf, Virgina
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Deep River, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1929). First Edition. First Printing Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with yellow text on the spine. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 5 1/4 inches with a long gift inscription dated in the year of publication on the first free end page and with minor rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a good+ price clipped dust jacket with a one inch deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area, three 1/4 inch deep chips at the upper edge of the front panel and two shallow chips at the lower edge of the spine area which is well tanned. 199 pages of text. One of only 4,000 copies of the first trade edition in it original, very scarce dust jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Town's End Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- TB33155
- Title
- A Room Of One's Own
- Author
- Woolf, Virgina
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- (1929)
Terms of Sale
Town's End Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Town's End Books
Biblio member since 2009
Deep River, Connecticut
About Town's End Books
We purchase and sell only collectible first editions in a number of fields all focused on Americana. We are primarily mail order sellers; however, we are open by appointment and welcome visits from customers.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Heel
- The lower most portion of the spine when the book is standing vertically.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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