Lot 373
  • 373

Woolf, Virginia.

Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description

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The Common Reader. London: The Hogarth Press, 1925



8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 220 x 140 mm). Publisher's primary binding of cloth-backed paper boards, pictorial upper cover illustrated by Vanessa Bell in the rare Bell-designed dust-jacket; jacket spine lightly faded, rear panel and folds a trifle rubbed, tiny chip at top edge of rear panel. Together with:  The Common Reader: Second Series. London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. 8vo  (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 220 x 140 mm).  Publisher's gilt-titled green cloth in dust-jacket illustrated by Bell; jacket spine very lightly faded with minor creasing at ends, some rubbing to rear panel.

Literature

Kirkpatrick A8 (first issue binding), A18; Woolmer 81, 315.

Condition

8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 220 x 140 mm). Publisher's primary binding of cloth-backed paper boards, pictorial upper cover illustrated by Vanessa Bell in the rare Bell-designed dust-jacket; jacket spine lightly faded, rear panel and folds a trifle rubbed, tiny chip at top edge of rear panel. Together with: The Common Reader: Second Series. London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. 8vo (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 in.; 220 x 140 mm). Publisher's gilt-titled green cloth in dust-jacket illustrated by Bell; jacket spine very lightly faded with minor creasing at ends, some rubbing to rear panel.
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Catalogue Note

First editions, the first being difficult to find in an acceptable dust-jacket, with only 1,250 copies printed and some of that number issued without the decorated boards.