Published by Ecco; HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 2006
ISBN 10: 0060881283 ISBN 13: 9780060881283
Seller: LEFT COAST BOOKS, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. xv, 77 pages, illustrations; 19 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Virginia Woolf was already an accomplished novelist and critic when she was commissioned by the British edition of Good Housekeeping to write a series entitled 'Six Articles on London Life.' Originally published bimonthly, beginning in December 1931, five of the essays were eventually collected and published in 1981. The sixth essay, 'Portrait of a Londoner,' had been missing from Woolf's oeuvre until it was rediscovered at the University of Sussex in 2004." - Publisher. Size: 12mo. Collectible.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The London Scene: Six Essays on London Life, Virginia Woolf; introduction by Francine Prose. Published by Ecco, 2006. 12mo up to 7½" tall., 77pp with illustration. Beige boards with copper titles; mapped endpapers rough cut edges; printed on high quality paper. Both volume and unclipped jacket are in mint condition. First published as "Six Articles on London Life" by the British edition of Good Housekeeping in a bimonthly series beginning in December 1931. The first five essays were published in one volume in 1982 by The Hogarth Press. The sixth essay, "Portrait of a Londoner," was rediscovered at the University of Sussex in 2004 and published here for the first time.