Virginia Woolf
by Lee, Hermione
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- Condition
- See description
- ISBN 10
- 0701165073
- ISBN 13
- 9780701165079
- Seller
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About This Item
London, U.K.: Chatto & Windus [0-7011-6507-3] 1986, 1st edition. (hardcover) 892pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket. 8vo. Inscribed by Lee "for Joan (Draper), Hermione Lee". Fine / near fine copy. Green cloth boards with gilt to spine. A clean, tight, bright, well bound copy with black and white photographs. Minor wear at head of spine to jacket only..
Synopsis
Hermione Lee’s books include the internationally acclaimed biography Virginia Woolf , a collection of essays on life-writing, Body Parts , and a study of Elizabeth Bowen. She has written on many American authors, from Willa Cather to Philip Roth. She is a well-known reviewer and broadcaster, and, in 2006, Chair of the judges for the Man-Booker Prize. She is the first woman Goldsmiths’ Professor of English at Oxford University, a Fellow of New College Oxford, of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. She was awarded a CBE in 2003 for services to literature.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Spafford Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 129310
- Title
- Virginia Woolf
- Author
- Lee, Hermione
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0701165073
- ISBN 13
- 9780701165079
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London, U.K.
- This edition first published
- 1996
- Keywords
- Biography, Autobiographies, Biographies, British Literature, Literature, Literature - British, Women Writers
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- Gilt
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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