The Common Reader

Woolf, Virginia

Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1925

About this Item

First American edition, first printing. [ii], 332 pp. Bound in publisher's cherry red cloth lettered in gilt on spine. Near Fine with ink ownership signature to front free endpaper and 1/4 inch open tear to back fly-leaf; pages a little roughly opened. In a Near Fine dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, corners clipped but price still present on front flap, with lightly sunned spine panel and a short tear to upper edge of rear panel. A bright and beautiful copy, apparently unread. The best we've handled. Kirkpatrick & Clarke A8b. Virginia Woolf's first collection of literary essays, published by Harcourt on May 14, 1925, three weeks after its appearance in Great Britain. As the title suggests, Woolf intended her book to be enjoyed by the ordinary person who reads for pleasure. The New York Times praised the author's creative approach to literary criticism: "Mrs. Woolf, like a mirror, reflects back the colors of the minds which betray themselves in the pages of the books which she takes under consideration.".

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Common Reader
• Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York
• Publication Date: 1925
• Edition: First American Edition.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature
  • Women Writers