The Common Reader

London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. New Edition. Very Good. Second printing of the new edition. Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine titled lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light wear at extremities, light soiling to cloth and endsheets foxed. While limited editions signed by… Read more about this item

NY: Harcourt Brace, 1925. First American edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Harcourt Brace, 1925, first printing. 8vo., 332 pp. Red cloth with gilt titles. Spine cloth sunned, lettering dull but legible, slight wear at the tips, heel and crown, bookplate on front pastedown, next to last fly leaf opened roughly, light random foxing to first few sheets, otherwise clean, square,… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1925. First edition, sixth impression. Hardcover. Good +/Fair. 332 p. 22 cm. Navy cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket darkened on exterior and top edges of flaps. Chips in head and heel of jacket spine and some stains. Gilt wearing thin on spine. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Occasional spots on darkened pages. … Read more about this item

London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the The Hogarth Press 1925). First UK Edition. First Series: Original grey cloth-backed Vanessa Bell designed boards in green and brown, titles to spine in black with the cream D/W also designed by Vanessa Bell A neat book-plate on the front paste-down otherwise… Read more about this item

London: The Hogarth Press,, 1925. A lovely copy in the scarce dust jacket First edition, first impression, first issue binding, in an unusually nice copy of the jacket; this is one of Woolf's scarcest books to find in dust jacket, and seldom in such nice condition. It is the first of the two volumes of Woolf's Common Reader, each… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1925. Fourth Printing, with small 4 on copyright page. Dated 1925, but circa 1932, ad for "A Second Common Reader"( Published 1932 ) rear flap. Very Good plus in publisher's original red cloth, prior owner name and date and small bookseller's stamp front end page, end pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket,… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 332 pages; VG-/G+; spine brown, with dark brown lettering and green design; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; some shelf wear and soiling to jacket; mild shelf wear and soiling to volume; marked age-toning to jacket overall; large chip missing at upper right corner of… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. First American Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8x5x1. First American edition, one of 2000 copies (Kirkpatrick A8b). Lacks jacket. Boards very lightly soiled, minor loss of gilt from spine, newspaper article on Bloomsbury Group laid in causing toning to front endpapers,. 1925 Hard Cover. 332 pp. Red cloth, gilt titles,… Read more about this item

First and second series combined in one volume. Book is in Very Good- condition, with light foxing in pastedowns/endpapers, text pages clean and secure. Dust jacket is in Fair condition, with spine missing, and ~2" open tear at top of front edge cover, smaller open tears at other jacket corners. In Brodart dust jacket protector. Jacket is price clipped.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed/Very Good. 8" by 6". Vanessa Bell. A smart example of Virginia Woolf's fascinating work of literary criticism, in the original dust wrapper designed by Vanessa Bell. The first edition, first impression, being one of 3200 copies. In the original unclipped dust wrapper designed… Read more about this item

London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper bards. Extremities marked and dulled, lightly rubbed. Scattered foxing, contemporary inked gift inscription and bookplate of Constance Miles to FEP - likely the noted diarist Constance Miles [née Nicoll] (1881-1962). The first edition of Woolf's collected essays treating on a wide variety of… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. Very good or better. Octavo. Red cloth boards, blind-stamped, gilt spine. [iii],334pp. 8¾ x5¾ in. Cream pictorial dust jacket printed brown and green, designed by Vanessa Bell. Boards bright and clean, ink ownership signature and date on front free endpaper, edges dusty, otherwise very good or better, in an unclipped dusty,… Read more about this item

London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,, 1932. First edition, first impression, with a Hogarth Press advertisement for the works of Virginia Woolf loosely inserted. This is the second of the two volumes of Woolf's Common Reader, each series being a discrete work in its own right; the first was published in 1925. The Common Reader series… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. First edition of this classic collection of Woolf's critical essays. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell. Woolf's second collection of critical writings, this volume contains twenty-six essays on the most brilliant figures in three centuries of English literature ranging from the magnificent… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt Brace, (1925), 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. by Author. Very scarce First American Edition Neatly Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. The First Series not the more Common Second Series. 8vo. 332 pp. A fine fresh copy in a beautifully crafted black leather and cloth binding with gold stamping on the… Read more about this item

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. [2], 332 p.; 23 cm. Original red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; double blind-ruled border on front board with blind-stamped publisher's emblem. Lacking dust jacket. The first U.S. edition, which includes one essay, "Miss Ormerod", not found in the first English edition. Contents: The… Read more about this item

Hogarth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Seventh impression; Seventh Impression. Hardback. The Hogarth Press Uniform Edition. Seventh Impression 1948. Dust jacket unclipped with no tears or loss, preserved quite nicely in protective plastic, contains a bit of sunning/fading at spine, as well as a light bit of spotting from age/shelf-life, otherwise unmarked with no… Read more about this item

Harcourt and Brace, 1948. Hardcover. good/good. Blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Vanessa Woolf. Spine of cloth shows some loss to the letters. Some chipping at edges of jacket with some loss and toning to jacket. Front and rear dust jacket flaps corners clipped. In a brodart protective wrapper.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Later bookplate, spine lettering dull but readable, small stain on front board, very good lacking the dustwrapper.

Harcourt Brace & Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1925 (1944). First American Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. ****Holiday Sale! The current price reflects a 20% discount off the regular price, while the item lasts. Sale ends December 3, 2023*****; Navy cloth cover is rubbed on corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+… Read more about this item