The Common Reader: Second Series

WOOLF, Virginia

Published by Hogarth Press/ Uniform Edition, London, 1935

About this Item

'NEW EDITION': i.e. FIRST UNIFORM EDITION. 8vo. Original teal cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Pushing to spine ends, heavy dints to top edges, patches and bands of sunning to spine ends and board edges (corresponding with DJ losses). Edges and endpapers scantily foxed, POI in blue ink to ffep: "Sylvia M Bones, Durham. Jan 1943.", 'The House of Andrews, Durham' label to rear endpaper, else, clean and tight. In the original teal dust jacket, lettered in dark blue: spine and edges sunned, loss to head of spine, extremities chipped, publisher's cancel price label partially removed to spine. Good+/ good+ A robust copy of the first uniform edition of the second series of Virginia Woolf's The Common Reader (1935), unusual in its matching teal dust jacket; originally published by the Hogarth Press in 1932, according to Kirkpatrick this 'new edition' is actually a photo-offset reprint of the first edition. 3200 copies were printed. Kirkpatrick A18c.

Seller Inventory # 3660

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Common Reader: Second Series
• Publisher: Hogarth Press/ Uniform Edition, London
• Publication Date: 1935
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Bloomsbury
  • Essays