Common Reader First Second by Woolf Virginia (42 results)

Condition: acceptable. Reading copy. May have signs of wear and previous use scuffs, library copy, highlighting, writing, and underlining . Dust jacket may be missing. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if youâre not satisfied with purchase.Ships USPS Media Mail.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First American. 1948 edition, 295 pp, some occasional underlining, former owner's name inside, gilt at bottom of spine somewhat diminished; Very light shelfwear to blue linen covered hardboards, sharp tips, clean; 295 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Dk. blue cl., 1/4" spot on front cover, gilt lettering backstr., rubbed off, library call letters in white. Library labels on forematter pp. Vii, 295pp. Clean ex-lib.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First American Edition Thus. cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., book has owner signature to front free endpaper. dj is missing most of the spine with sparse, shallow edge-wear, the beautiful cover illustration by vanessa bell is happily intact, as are the flaps and 90% of the rear panel. flap price intact. all is preserved in a new folded mylar protector. no other markings. no foxing, bumps. strong binding.; the contents appeared in two separate publications dated, 1925 and 1932.; original paginations preserved, 332pp. and 295pp. 53 reviews, essays, and other texts. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. "Combined Edition in One Volume Published 1948". First thus, very good in a good or worse dust jacket. Blue cloth is a little worn at edges and on spine; small bits of jacket adhering to front board in a few places. Owner name, place, and date on front endpaper. The jacket is in two pieces - both front and rear panels are attached to the flaps, but no spine. The jacket, with a $4.00 price on front flap, is laid in. Hinges are tight; interior of book is clean and square. 0.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.8.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Ex-Library copy with typical library marks and stamps. Third printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. The volume appears to have been re-cased using hardcover library binding through the libraryâs preservation efforts. The binding suffers moderate loosening due to age and wear, but remains secure and in-tact; the pages are clean and unmarked. Secure packaging for safe delivery. 1.8.

Cloth. Condition: VG-. Dust Jacket Condition: G+. 295 pp, the book and contents are clean and tight, the pages are lightly browned, the front free endpaper has an inked name and year of 1948, the title page had a paper clip at the top leaving a light impression on 5 pages and some rust, there is a 1/4" tear at the top of page where paper clip was removed, the covers have very light scuffing and corner rubbing, the dust jacket has light chipping at the corners, the spine is darkened and covers have light soil and scuffing, this is a very solid and usable copy of this Virginia Woolf book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. B002JYXG4M Hi. Welcome to our small, family-owned bookstore. This is the one-volume Harcourt Brace and Company 'First and Second Series in One Volume' 1948 edition (First Edition) of Virginia Woolf's acclaimed The Common Reader. Hardcover with dust jacket. Considering the age, both are in very good condition. The dust jacket is altogether sun-faded (original light blue is seen on the inside flaps) has four chips on the backstrip (about 1/4" the three bog ones) and on each the corners one (about 1/8" each) ; the back strip is lightly discolored but also has some stains (including two 1/4'" dia. red spots) and slight soiling. Same for the back The flaps have trimmed edges, but the usual price corner is clipped. The book itself (dark blue covers with gilt lettering) shows little wear (tiny white spot on the corners, no turning-in; but a significant bump [1/2" long; 1/4" deep] on the crown of the backstrip cuts into the gilt top-line]. Inside. a previous owner's signature on the flyleaf, and I saw pencil notes on three pages (the previous owner was a literature professor, so the notes might be helpful). The covers themselves are clean, besides for the bump. The pages are clean. The binding is strong. 293 pages. Packaged using bubble wrap and a sturdy cardboard box. Tracking number provided for no extra cost. Thanks for checking out this book from our small town brick-and-mortar and supporting a small business.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; Second Printing. Dust jacket shows some mild damp stains, rubbing to folds, and some chipping to edges and corners. Blue cloth boards show minor wear to edges and corners. Age tone to endpapers and edges. ; Boards are square, flat and clean. Tight binding. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has been placed in removeable protective cover. Large/heavy book: international buyers may be charged for additional shipping costs.; 8.0 X 5.7 X 1.6 inches.

Hardback. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Fifth & Second Editions. Complete two volume set, 'First Series' [1942, Fifth Edition] and 'Second Series' [1935, Second Edition]; Turquoise cloth boards sunned at top-edges and down spine, a touch stained on spines of each, small split at each end of vol.II spine, gilt lettering tarnished; Pages age-toned, top-edges dusty, previous owner's signature on ffep of each [dated 1943], no annotation; Bindings tight. ; 5 x 7.5"; 305, 270 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Reprints 1946-1954. A good set of eleven volumes of Virginia Woolf's works in the uniform edition. Includes The Voyage Out; Night and Day; Jacob's Room; To the Lighthouse; Orlando; The Waves; The Years; Flush; A Room of One's Own; The Common Reader, First and Second Series. Ownership inscriptions to most volumes by David M. Morgan Rees. David M. Morgan Rees (1930-), who matriculated at Trinity Hall in 1949, is a Yorkshire-based author and photographer whose books captured Yorkshire crafts, landscapes and lives. Books are very good with quite bright boards, Contents good. In the original yellow and gray dust jackets: The wrappers are good++ to very good with spines and panels sunned, edgewear, nicking and creasing, some foxing. More images available upon request.Ref 18875a.

Hardcover. Combined Edition. Very Good+ in boards. Small stain on bottom text block edge.

Hardcover. Advanced Reader's Copy. Octavo, 295 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine tan with blue and faded brown lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$4.00." Minor shelf wear. Sunning and chipping to covers, with closed tear to top edge of rear cover. Bumping to spine. Toning to interior pages. With slip reading, "Advanced Copy from Harcourt, Brace, and Company" adhered to front free endpaper. Shelved in Case 2. 1391465. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

[Literature] UNIFORM EDITION, seventh impression, fifth impression. Two volumes uniformly bound. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.305; [1]. pp. 207; [2]. Publisher's bright teal cloth lettered in gilt to spine with typographic dust-jacket priced at 7s 6d to front flap and spine. [Vol I] Pencil margin marks in some essays, toning to edges of textblock and light spotting to top edge, S. Wroath and Son's bookseller's sticker front paste-down, discolouration to crown of cloth and base of spine, sunning to dust-jacket spine. Very good. [Vol II] Toning and light spotting to top edge of textblock, S. Wroath and Son's bookseller's sticker front paste-down, sunning and discolouration to publisher's cloth, rolling to spine, sunning to dust-jacket spine. Very good. 'The Common Reader' is a collection of classic essays by Virginia Woolf exploring subjects such as Jane Austen, 'Wuthering Heights', George Eliot, Mary Wollstonecraft and Dorothy Wordsworth. The essays are aimed at the common reader, and they highlight the impressive talent of Woolf demonstrating her expanse of knowledge and stylistic variety; The prose here is vastly different from her modernist style for which she is best known.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Attractively bound in finely woven blue cloth, stamped light in gilt at the bottom of the spine indicating publisher. No gilt on the rest of the spine lettering.Very clean and tight throughout.In a striking dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell and with the original price of $2.50 at the bottom of the rear flap. Some separation along the spine fold.Chipping to the top of the spine ends as well. A place-holding copy in jacket. Adeline Virginia Woolf ( January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London. She was the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight that included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London. There, she studied classics and history, coming into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement.After her father's death in 1904, the Stephen family moved from Kensington to the more bohemian Bloomsbury, where, in conjunction with the brothers' intellectual friends, they formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917, the couple founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. They rented a home in Sussex and permanently settled there in 1940. (Wikipedia) First Edition: Stated "First Printing" on the copyright page.

Hardcover. Uniform Edition (Sixth Impression). Uniform Edition (Sixth Impression). Hardcover. Collection of reading copies in dustjacket from the Oliver Sacks library. All autographed by Oliver Sacks on ffep, with the exception of The Waves: B.K. Saunders. 4 volumes total. Classics from Woolf. From the library of Dr. Oliver Sacks, the renowned neurologist, author, and educator. He was, in his life, celebrated for his contributions to the understanding of the human brain and his ability to communicate complex scientific concepts to a broader audience. In doing so, he highlighted the profound impact of neurological disorders on human identity and experience. His library is a reflection of this remarkable polymath's questing mind. Tearing, water spotting and toning to dj, mild toning throughout, shelfwear, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Green cloth with gold and green dj. various paging. 12mo. Former owner signed. Very Good in Very Good Dustjacket.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Attractively bound in finely woven blue cloth, stamped brightly in gilt on the spine. Name in ink on front endpdpaer; clean and tight throughout.With some faint dampstaing to the rear boards. In a complete dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell and with the original price of $4.00 at the top of the inside front flap. The rear panel of the dust jacket has some light dampstaining along the top edges and to the right of the list of titles. Small tears. Adeline Virginia Woolf ( January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London. She was the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight that included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London. There, she studied classics and history, coming into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement.After her father's death in 1904, the Stephen family moved from Kensington to the more bohemian Bloomsbury, where, in conjunction with the brothers' intellectual friends, they formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917, the couple founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. They rented a home in Sussex and permanently settled there in 1940. (Wikipedia) First Edition: Combined edition in one volume published in 1948.

[Essays] FIFTH AND THIRD EDITIONS. Two volumes. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.305; [3]. pp.270. Publisher's green cloth lettered in gilt to spine, typographic dust-jacket with printed price of 7/6 to spine. Small booksellers stamp to front pastedown of first vol., gilt titling worn, bumping to corners, sunning to dust-jacket spines. Very good. 'The Common Reader' is a collection of classic essays by Virginia Woolf exploring subjects such as Jane Austen, 'Wuthering Heights', George Eliot, Mary Wollstonecraft and Dorothy Wordsworth. The essays are aimed at the common reader, and they highlight the impressive talent of Woolf, demonstrating her expanse of knowledge and stylistic variety; the prose here is vastly different from her modernist style for which she is best known.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1948, First American combined Edition of the First and second series. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with stamped title on binding. Rubbing on both ends of binding. 295 pages in good condition, albeit yellowed due to age. Very minimal pencilled underlining by prior owner.

Condition: Very Good. Uniform editions, 17 volumes, 8vo., green hardcover, gilt, b/w illustrations to Three Guineas and pictorial endpapers to Flush, A Biography; neat pencilling to contents page of Jacob's Room, The Moment and other Other Essays, The Captain's Death Bed, and A Haunted House, upper corner of front free endpaper of A Haunted House clipped, with a small ink annotation marking, foxing to edges of text block and occasionally to endpapers, otherwise very good, in unclipped dust-jackets, which are sunned to spines and lightly so to extremities, foxing to margins of dust-jacket most heavily to the edition of Night and Day, rubbing to extremities and light chipping and wear to head and foot of spine and corners, most heavily of which is to the edition of To The Lighthouse, overall a very good set.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American combined edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Gilt rubbed a bit on spine, else near fine in attractive spine-toned, very good or better Vanessa Bell-illustrated dust jacket with shallow loss at the spine ends. Pulitzer Prize novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Larry McMurtry's copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown and his early, neat owner Signature on the front flyleaf. A handsome copy and nice association.

Uniform edition, eighth and sixth impressions respectively. Two volumes. 305, (1); 270 pp. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, gilt lettered to spines, printed yellow dust jackets, not price clipped. Tanning and mild wear to the jacket spine, a very good set.

First U.S. combined edition. Octavo. 295 pages.Small ownership signature on front pastedown. Two small dents to edges of front cover. Head of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in very good dustwrapper, with the Vanessa Bell design, with nicks and chips at top edge.