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NY: Penguin, 1992. Aged textblock with former owner's ink notes and scribbles on ffep, ink-stamped bottom edge, else clean and tight; Covers lightly edge and corner worn; 453p.. Reprint. Illustrated Wraps. Very Good. Illus. by Cover Art by William E. Fox. 8vo - 7 3/4" - 9 3/4 " Tall. Paperback.

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1978. x, 221 pages; 22 cm. Tight, clean copy. Age toning. Stated First American Edition. Dust jacket with light shelfwear/small corner crease on the front flap. CONTENTS: PART I. OF WRITING AND WRITERS; In the orchard; A woman's college from outside; On a faithful friend; English prose; Impressions at Bayreuth; Modes and manners of the nineteenth century; Men and women; Coleridge as critic; Patmore's criticism; Papers on Pepys; Sheridan; Thomas Hood; Praeterita; Mr. Kipling's notebook; Emerson's journals; Thoreau; Herman Melville; Rupert Brooke; The intellectual imagination; These are the plans; Mr. Sassoon's poems; A Russian schoolboy; A glance at Turgenev; A giant with very small thumbs; Dostoevsky the father; More Dostoevsky; Dostoevsky in Cranford; The Russian background; A scribbling dame; Maria Edgeworth and her circle; Jane Austen and the geese; Mrs. Gaskell; The compromise; Wilcoxiana; The genius of Boswell; Shelley and Elizabeth… Read More

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. 6 X 8 1/2 inches high.First edition stated on copyright page with incomplete letter line indicating 2nd printing. Condition of the book is Very Good; top edge of textblock lightly foxed, otherwise excellent, a very clean, tight copy. Condition of the dust jacket is Very Good; a few small dents on the rear cover, otherwise very clean and fresh, not price clipped/ $6.95 drama RGR

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1976. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 0151334870 . B&W Illustrations; This book is in Fine condition nad has a Very Good+ dust jacket. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. The text pages are clean and bright. The dust jacket is mostly clean and bright. There is one long scratch to the rear panel and one small nick / tear to the front spine joint. The rear panel has some light ground-in dirt as well. "The two typescript versions of Freshwater, Virginia Woolf's only play, were discovered shortly after the death of her husband Leonard, in 1969. Both texts are published here for the first time. Freshwater is a hilarious farce based on Virginia's grewat-aunt Julia Margaret Cameron, the famous Victorian photographer. It takes place on the Isle of Wight, where Mrs. Cameron and her husband established an artists' colony in the 1870's." "Adeline Virginia Woolf… Read More

browning, gift inscription

A & W Visual Library. Used - Good. Good condition. (Victorian Photography, History) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Thos Agnew & Sons, London 1960. 22.0 x 17.0cms, 64pp, b/w illusts, very good stapled paperback & cover Hogarth Press printed the conversation in a pamphlet (1934) and in 'The Captain's Death Bed' (1950). The exhibiiton catalogue had 110 items (c 1890-1925)

Boston: David R. Godine, 1973. Expanded and rev. ed. Hardbound. Good/Good (foxing to upper block, corners bumped. Text and illustrations are clean and clear. Dust jacket has light shelfwear with small tears and clipped front flap.). Purple cloth boards with gilt spine lettering; tan dust jacket with bw photographs on front and rear, black spine lettering; 32 pp, 44 leaves of plates. "Julia Margaret Cameron has long been recognised as a photographer of extraordinary power and sublety, but it is perhaps only now that we can fully appreciate her success in raising photography to an art form."- dust jacket.

London: Hesperus Press Limited [1-84391-701-7] 2005. (hardcover) xxiii, 240pp. Fine in fine dust jacket. 8vo. Illustrated (line drawings) pale blue jacket, black titles to front and spine. The newspaper efforts and recordings of day-to-day events as ingeniously mimicked by the Stephen children (Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, and their brother, Thoby) at their famile home, 22 Hyde Park Gate. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Gill Lowe. Foreword by Hermione Lee..

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976 First printing of the stated first edition. Book with faint shallow staining near bottom fore-edge, else in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear to upper front spine fold, faint toning to cover margins, and light wear to extremities, else fine.

London: Peter Owen, 1972. 1st Edition First Thus. Hardcover. Very Good+/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 1972 first edition. Size octavo, 8.5" tall, 207 pages. Blue hard cover with silver gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good plus, small mark to front end-paper, pages bery slightly toned otherwise clean. Dust jacket condition very good, corners edges and folds rubbed, spine very slightly sunned, not price clipped.

London: Chatto and Windus, 1992. . Revised, expanded edition, 4to., pp.32(text), 44 monochromatic plates, maroon hardcover, gilt; ownership inscription to front free endpaper, light rubbing to extremities, a very good, clean copy, in vg price-clipped dust-jacket, which has a little creasing to extremities and is now in a protective cover.

Hogarth Press, London, 1950. 1st Edition. HARDCOVER. 8vo in rust red cloth, gilt lettering to spine, 223pp. This copy belonged to Peter Meyer (author, translator and art collector) whose bookplate, a lino-cut specially done by Keith Vaughan, is on the front paste-down end-paper __CONDITION : Spine and rear cover a little sunned else FINE an otherwise well preserved and very clean and tight unmarked copy. ... __We always ship in PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS

Harcourt Brace New York, 1950. HBDJ, ADVANCE COPY, stated 1st American Edition, 1st printing with Laid-in Slip , 1950, Some Rub, Wear & tiny chips DJ, Several Small Pieces from DJ mainly Extremities, Blueish Cloth cover minor Wear & Tiny Chips Corners, Spine Slightly Faded, PC, Some mended Tears DJ, VG+/G+, AS-IS. First Edition. Hard Cover.

New York: Harcourt, Brace And Company, 1938. First American Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 285 Pp. Rose Cloth, Gilt. Stated First American Edition. A Hollywood Copy, Unusual In That Woolf Is Apparently The Least Filmable Major Twentieth Century Author, And Although We Previously Offered Her Books From The Libraries Of Industry Figures, This One Is Particularly Interesting Because It Is From Actress Joan Crawford, Assertive Feminist And Liberal Democrat Who Might Well Have Played The Lead In "Whose Afraid Of Virginia Woolf"; With The 1938 Ownership Signature "Crawford" Under The Front Flap, And Small Label Of J. W. Robinson (Which Then Had One Of The Best Book Departments In Los Angeles) On Rear Paste Down. Book Near Fine, Spine Gilt Brilliant. Dust Jacket Priced $2.50, Light Wear, Small Losses At Corners, 1/2" Closed Tear At Bottom Of Rear Panel, Spine Browned