The Absent Father: Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater
by Meisel, Perry
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0300024010
- ISBN 13
- 9780300024012
- Seller
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Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1980 Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Small Octavo. xxii + 249 pp, Preface, Textual Note, 5 chapters with footnotes - quotes, index. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked, orange cover cloth crisp and spine letters intact. 5.8" 8.5" orange cloth boards, gilt spine letters, in red & white DJ (in acetate protector) DJ unclipped, very minor wear. to spine corners top & bottom. .
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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 006804
- Title
- The Absent Father: Virginia Woolf and Walter Pater
- Author
- Meisel, Perry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0300024010
- ISBN 13
- 9780300024012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven and London
- Date Published
- 1980
- Keywords
- Virginia Stephen Woolf, 1882-1941, Walter Horatio Pater, 1839-1894 - aestheticism - influences
- Bookseller catalogs
- LITERARY CRITICISM;
- Size
- Small Octavo
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About the Seller
West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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Ann Arbor, Michigan
About West Side Book Shop, ABAA
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- Fine
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- Cloth
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