The Common Reader
by Woolf, Virginia
Woolf’s first and most popular volume of essays. This collection has more than twenty-five selections, including such important statements as “Modern Fiction” and “The Modern Essay.” Edited and with an Introduction by Andrew McNeillie; Index.
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The Common Reader
by Woolf, Virginia
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- 1933
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Portland, Oregon, USA
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. New Edition. Very Good. Second printing of the new edition. Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine titled lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light wear at extremities, light soiling to cloth and endsheets foxed. While limited editions signed by… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Common Reader
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NY: Harcourt Brace, 1925. First American edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Harcourt Brace, 1925, first printing. 8vo., 332 pp. Red cloth with gilt titles. Spine cloth sunned, lettering dull but legible, slight wear at the tips, heel and crown, bookplate on front pastedown, next to last fly leaf opened roughly, light random foxing to first few sheets, otherwise clean, square,… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt Brace & Co., 1925. Fourth Printing, with small 4 on copyright page. Dated 1925, but circa 1932, ad for "A Second Common Reader"( Published 1932 ) rear flap. Very Good plus in publisher's original red cloth, prior owner name and date and small bookseller's stamp front end page, end pages toned. In a Very Good dust jacket,… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Common Reader
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London, Ontario, CAN
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1925. First edition, sixth impression. Hardcover. Good +/Fair. 332 p. 22 cm. Navy cloth in mylar-covered dustjacket. Jacket darkened on exterior and top edges of flaps. Chips in head and heel of jacket spine and some stains. Gilt wearing thin on spine. Ink inscription on front free endpaper. Occasional spots on darkened pages. … Read more about this item Item Price
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THE COMMON READER
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1930. Very good or better. Octavo. Red cloth boards, blind-stamped, gilt spine. [iii],334pp. 8¾ x5¾ in. Cream pictorial dust jacket printed brown and green, designed by Vanessa Bell. Boards bright and clean, ink ownership signature and date on front free endpaper, edges dusty, otherwise very good or better, in an unclipped dusty,… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. First Edition, Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 332 pages; VG-/G+; spine brown, with dark brown lettering and green design; dust jacket protected with a mylar covering; some shelf wear and soiling to jacket; mild shelf wear and soiling to volume; marked age-toning to jacket overall; large chip missing at upper right corner of… Read more about this item Item Price
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THE COMMON READER
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Leicester, GBR
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London: Hogarth Press, 1925. First Edition. Hard Cover. Dust Jacket. (Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the The Hogarth Press 1925). First UK Edition. First Series: Original grey cloth-backed Vanessa Bell designed boards in green and brown, titles to spine in black with the cream D/W also designed by Vanessa Bell A neat book-plate on the front paste-down otherwise… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Common Reader
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, USA
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£81.29
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition. Later bookplate, spine lettering dull but readable, small stain on front board, very good lacking the dustwrapper. Item Price
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Wareham, Dorset, GBR
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£450.00
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London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1925. Original publisher's cloth-backed pictorial paper bards. Extremities marked and dulled, lightly rubbed. Scattered foxing, contemporary inked gift inscription and bookplate of Constance Miles to FEP - likely the noted diarist Constance Miles [née Nicoll] (1881-1962). The first edition of Woolf's collected essays treating on a wide variety of… Read more about this item Item Price
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Montreal, Quebec, CAN
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New York: Harcourt Brace, (1925), 1925. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Hardcover. by Author. Very scarce First American Edition Neatly Signed by Virginia Woolf on the front free endpaper. The First Series not the more Common Second Series. 8vo. 332 pp. A fine fresh copy in a beautifully crafted black leather and cloth binding with gold stamping on the… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Common Reader
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North Arlington, New Jersey, USA
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£24.39
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Harcourt, Brace, 1925. VG -. Hardcover / No jacket / Red boards / Sunstruck spine otherwise VG throughout / First American edition Item Price
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The Common Reader.
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London, GBR
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£11,000.00
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London: The Hogarth Press,, 1925. A lovely copy in the scarce dust jacket First edition, first impression, first issue binding, in an unusually nice copy of the jacket; this is one of Woolf's scarcest books to find in dust jacket, and seldom in such nice condition. It is the first of the two volumes of Woolf's Common Reader, each… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Common Reader
by Virginia Woolf
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Lynchburg, Virginia, USA
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£52.84
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First and second series combined in one volume.
Book is in Very Good- condition, with light foxing in pastedowns/endpapers, text pages clean and secure.
Dust jacket is in Fair condition, with spine missing, and ~2" open tear at top of front edge cover, smaller open tears at other jacket corners. In Brodart dust jacket protector. Jacket is price clipped. Item Price
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The Common Reader [First Series]
by Woolf, Virginia
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Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, USA
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£45.52
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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1925. Hardcover. Very Good. [2], 332 p.; 23 cm. Original red cloth with gilt-stamped spine title; double blind-ruled border on front board with blind-stamped publisher's emblem. Lacking dust jacket. The first U.S. edition, which includes one essay, "Miss Ormerod", not found in the first English edition. Contents: The… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Common Reader
by Virginia Woolf
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- 1925-01-01
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Bradford, West Yorkshire, GBR
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£46.20
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Hogarth Press, 1925-01-01. Hardcover. Good. 3.9970 in x 21.5836 in x 14.1892 in. Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback. Clean copy in good condition. This book is the Second Edition, published at Hogarth Press in 1925. Item Price
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The Common Reader: Second Series
by Woolf, Virginia
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- 1935
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London, Greater London, GBR
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£35.00
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London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1935. 8vo. 270 pp. Green cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. First printing in the 'uniform edition'. Some rubbing to spine and markings to cloth. Foxing to endpapers and very occasional spots throughout. . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition Thus. 1935. Item Price
£35.00
The Common Reader
by Woolf, Virginia
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- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
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- Seventh impression; Seventh Impression
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- 1948
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London, Greater London, GBR
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£100.00
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Hogarth. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1948. Seventh impression; Seventh Impression. Hardback. The Hogarth Press Uniform Edition. Seventh Impression 1948. Dust jacket unclipped with no tears or loss, preserved quite nicely in protective plastic, contains a bit of sunning/fading at spine, as well as a light bit of spotting from age/shelf-life, otherwise unmarked with no… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Common Reader
by Virginia Woolf
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- 1948
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Denver, Colorado, USA
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£40.64
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Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1948. Hardcover. Very good/None. First printing of the combined edition in one volume. All pages are bright, clean and unmarked. Binding and hinges secure, although spine has a slight lean. Light rubbing to boards and heavier rubbing to gilt lettering on spine and spine ends softened. Item Price
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The Common Reader; First and Second Series in One Volume
by Virginia Woolf
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- 1948
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St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
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£40.64
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Harcourt and Brace, 1948. Hardcover. good/good. Blue cloth in pictorial dust jacket by Vanessa Woolf. Spine of cloth shows some loss to the letters. Some chipping at edges of jacket with some loss and toning to jacket. Front and rear dust jacket flaps corners clipped. In a brodart protective wrapper. Item Price
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THE COMMON READER
by Virginia Woolf
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- First American Edition; Later Printing
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- 1925 (1944)
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Livonia, Michigan, USA
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£304.84
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Harcourt Brace & Company. Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket. 1925 (1944). First American Edition; Later Printing. Hardcover. ; Navy cloth cover is rubbed on corners and spine caps but clean, bright, and in very good+ condition. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and in very good condition. Dust jacket is toned, … Read more about this item Item Price
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