Jacob's Room
by Virginia Woolf
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
-
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. Very Good. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1923. First U.S. Edition. Octavo. 303 pages + advertisements. Orange cloth with paper spine label. Lacks dust jacket.
Boards are worn at extremities with brief exposure and general rubbing and smudging. Spine label worn and almost illegible. Hinges starting but binding holding. Previous owner's sticker to rear pastedown and chipping along fore edge of advertisements pages but interior otherwise clean and unmarked.
A very good copy of Woolf's third novel, which marks an important modernist shift in her writing style.
Boards are worn at extremities with brief exposure and general rubbing and smudging. Spine label worn and almost illegible. Hinges starting but binding holding. Previous owner's sticker to rear pastedown and chipping along fore edge of advertisements pages but interior otherwise clean and unmarked.
A very good copy of Woolf's third novel, which marks an important modernist shift in her writing style.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8011
- Title
- Jacob's Room
- Author
- Virginia Woolf
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1923
Terms of Sale
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Biblio member since 2019
Washington, District of Columbia
About Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
Capitol Hill Books is a used bookstore in the Eastern Market neighborhood of Washington, DC. We have three floors of quality used books, first editions, and rare books.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Fore Edge
- The portion of a book that is opposite the spine. That part of a book which faces the wall when shelved in a traditional...