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Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1936
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB), LONDON, United KingdomWorlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB)
Contact seller3-star sellerCondition: Used - Near fine
US$ 615.98
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Add to basketCondition: Near Fine. First Edition. Publisher's light blue cloth with the excellent and unclipped dust-jacket designed by English Surrealist artist and writer John Banting (1902-72), who designed six book jackets for the Woolf's Hogarth Press. Spine of jacket slightly darkened. Top edge of text block dust stained. Without old i…nscriptions. A near fine copy. "A first novel by a young American who has aroused Virginia Woolf's enthusiasm. It deals with a weird Lutheran backwoods family entirely composed of divided and tortured souls. The style is sometimes impressive, more often mannered, while the strained atmosphere is distressingly reminiscent at times of 'The Tavern', review in New York Times. Book.
