The Captain's Death Bed and other Essays.
by WOOLF, VIRGINIA:
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Shaftesbury, Dorset, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Hogarth Press, London, 1950. First edition. 8vo (8 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches), 223-pages. Original purple grained cloth, spine a little sunned. In the very good unclipped dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. The jacket with a little fraying at headband and short half inch tear to upper margin of upper panel (no loss), and small puncture to upper joint (no loss).
Synopsis
These twenty-five short essays demonstrate the beauty of style, the wit, and the sensibility for which Woolf is admired. "This book contains...the same delicious things to read as always....Virginia Woolf was a great artist, one of the glories of our time, and she never published a line that was not worth reading" (Katherine Anne Porter). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bristow and Garland (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20022
- Title
- The Captain's Death Bed and other Essays.
- Author
- WOOLF, VIRGINIA:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Hogarth Press, London, 1950.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
Bristow and Garland
Biblio member since 2005
Shaftesbury, Dorset
About Bristow and Garland
Long established antiquarian & secondhand booksellers and dealers in autographs and manuscripts.
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