The Death Of the Moth and Other Essays
by Woolf, Virginia
A highly acclaimed collection of twenty-eight essays, sketches, and short stories presenting nearly every facet of the author's work. "Up to the author's highest standard in a literary form that was most congenial to her" (Times Literary Supplement (London)). "Exquisitely written" (New Yorker); "The riches of this book are overwhelming" (Christian Science Monitor). Editorial Note by Leonard Woolf.
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by Virginia Woolf
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1942 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Good. 9" by 6". None. The first edition of this anthology of essays from Virginia Woolf, published the year after her death, and in the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this posthumously published collection of essays from Virginia Woolf. In the publisher's… Read more about this item Item Price
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Penguin Books, 1961. Paperback. Acceptable. 1961. 1961 Reprint. 211 pages. Grey and white pictorial paperback. Pages are moderately tanned and thumbed at the edges, with creased corners and foxing. Binding has remained firm. Paper cover is lightly rub worn and thumbed with light shelf wear to edges and corners. Light creases to corners and spine. Light tanning to… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: Hogarth Press, 1942. Second impression. Hardcover. near Very Good. 8vo. Pp 157. Blue buckram boards stamped in gilt on the spine. Name of ownership on the front pastedown endpaper else a clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket. The cloth is sunned at the spine and has a large stain on… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: The Hogarth Press 1942. 8vo. First Edition. 157 pp. Blue hardcover with gilt lettering to spine. Some fading to spine and board edge with a minor stain to the rear. Boards bowing. Light spotting throughout. Essays about mental health, women writers, etc. published the year after Woolf's suicide. . Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1981. Item Price
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1942. First American edition, 8vo, pp. viii, 248; very small crease tears at bottom of spine of dust-jacket, and slight browning of the jacket at the edges and some soiling of the back panel, but otherwise this is a fine copy in the Vanessa Bell-designed jacket. A posthumous collection of Woolf's essays, gathered and seen… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 8" by 6". None. A very smart first edition of Woolf's posthumous collection of essays, including the notable 'A Letter to a Young Poet'. The first edition, first impression. Lacking the original Vanessa Bell dust wrapper. Consisting of over twenty essays, reviews, and other miscellaneous items,… Read more about this item Item Price
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. First English edition of this collection of Woolf's essays selected and published by her husband posthumously. Octavo, original cloth. Very good with remnants of the rare original dust jacket. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell. At the time of her death in 1941, Virginia Woolf left behind her a large number of essays, sketches and… Read more about this item Item Price
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First edition (so stated). Octavo. Original blue buckram stamped in gilt on the spine. Dust jacket by Vanessa Bell (chipped at corners and spine ends; few nicks). Very good (foxing at edges). No signatures or bookplates.
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The Death of the Moth and other Essays.
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London, The Hogarth Press, 1942. . First edition; 8vo; contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, scattered light foxing; publisher's blue buckram, gilt lettering to spine, top edge slightly bumped, light spotting to edges, with the original dustjacket by Vanessa Bell, mild browning and soiling, historic tape strengthening to reverse at spine ends; overall a very good copy.
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The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
by Woolf, Virginia
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THE DEATH OF THE MOTH AND OTHER ESSAYS
by Woolf, Virginia
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THE DEATH OF THE MOTH and Other Essays
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London: Reader's Union / Hogarth Press, 1943. Cloth. Near Very Good/No Jacket. Frontis illus, a B&W photo portrait of Virginia. 28 Essays include: Novels of E. M. Forster; Thougfhts on Peace in an Air Raid; Professions for Women; The Art of Biography and 3 essays on Henry James. Grey cloth cover with paper tritle lable illustrated with a… Read more about this item Item Price
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The Death Of The Moth And Other Essays
by Woolf, Virginia
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THE DEATH OF THE MOTH AND OTHER ESSAYS
by WOOLF, VIRGINIA
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1942 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good Indeed. 9" by 6". None. The first edition of this anthology of essays from Virginia Woolf, published the year after her death, and including the notable 'A Letter to a Young Poet'. The first edition, first impression.Consisting of over twenty essays, reviews, and other miscellaneous items,… Read more about this item Item Price
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by Woolf, Virginia
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London: The Hogarth Press, 1942. 1st edition. Cloth. Good+. 1st edition, 1942. A Good+ copy. 8vo., 157 pp., in tan cloth with titles in gilt on front cover. Rebound in light tan cloth which is faded on the spine at edges. Some minor dust on text edges. Text is clean and unmarked, binding is solid. Item Price
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Harcourt Brace & Company, NY, 1942. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, hardcover. Vg+ condition in vg dj. Dust jacket chipped at head and heel of spine, now enclosed in a removable mylar protector. Covers and contents clean, unworn, no marking or writing. Binding square and tight. Item Price
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