Common Reader Second Series by Woolf, First Edition (30 results)

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: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. British edition, second printing, November 1932 (first printing was October 1932). No jacket. Green boards with gold lettering to spine are very good with a hint of pushing/bumping to corners, a few small marks, a little patchy browning (including to spine), the odd small bump/rub to edges and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Previous owner's name, date and address in pen to front end-paper. Odd small mark/minor foxing to page edges and tops. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to bottom edge of pages. Pages bit tanned. Occasional small marks/spots of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edn. 8vo. orig. cl. no d/w. Bds. and spine very marked, occasional foxing. generally good.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Used-Good/Used-Acceptable. Black & white photographs (illustrator). First Edition. London, UK: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. Used-Good/Used-Acceptable. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. 2ND IMPRESSION . 8vo., 270 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, chipped, cover edges darkened, pages lightly toned .

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.

Woolf, Virginia. The common reader. Second series. 2nd impression. London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, November 1932. Hardback, VG, in FAIR, unclipped dustjacket, with heavy shelfwear to edges, numerous small nicks, rubbing to spine and some foxing. Multiple small tape repairs made on the reverse side. Green cloth with a few small stains; gilt lettering to spine. Binding strong. Light tanning to endpapers. Ownership signature to ffep. 270pp. Light foxing to last couple of pages, otherwise contents clean and bright. Light foxing to edges of the block. 'He reads for his own pleasure rather than to impart knowledge or correct the opinions of others'. So Virginia Woolf described the 'common reader' for whom she wrote her second series of essays. Here she turns her brilliant eye on novels and poetry from John Donne to Christina Rossetti and Mary Wollstonecraft as well as many others. This is an informal, informative and witty celebration of our literary and social heritage by a writer of genius. RightWayUp Books aims to provide accurate and detailed descriptions. All images are of the actual book for sale - no stock images are ever used. Thank you for looking at this listing.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Impression. Hardback, no dust-wrapper. 270pp. 1st edition, 2nd impression 1932. A few small marks to binding. Minor spotting. A very pleasing copy. (bs53).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 6 X 9 inches. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt type to spine. A little bowing to boards. 1932 First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Not ex-library. Former owner's name on front end page, otherwise unmarked. Acidic pages somewhat toned. Solid square binding. Her second book of collected essays.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Bell, Vanessa (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition, no additional printings, Vanessa Bell dustjacket; 8vo, green cloth; good (boards bowed, soiled, and darkened; spine and edges toned and darkened; shelfworn; white candle wax removed from bottom edge of boards, rfep, and bottom edge; bump to bottom edge of front board; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; scrapes to side edge; eps and pages toned; cracked at pp80-1 and 176-7; tear to bottom edge of p21-2 and 196-7; top corners of pp105-18 creased; small chip to side margin of pp141-54, no loss of text; soil to bottom margins of pp174-5; crease to bottom margin of pp197-240) in poor dj (split in two where front panel and flap detached from spine, rear panel, and rear flap; toned, soiled, and stained; heavily chipped, torn, worn, and creased; large chips missing from edges of rear panel; spine ends torn off, text missing from 'The' and 'Press'); 270pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Fine Copy In a Very Good Jacket.First Edition 1932 On Title-Page. Comes With a Hogarth Catalogue.Classic By Woolf.Excellent Copy.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 5th Impression. Green bds with crisp gilt title, light crush top edge near cnr due to titght shelving o/w unworn, 270 pages, very bright and crisp. Yellow DJ has light wear dust spotting, small nick at front leading edge price clipped. Overall a very nice copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hard. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, 2nd Impression. 1st Edition, 2nd Impression. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Sunning to edges. Boards tidy. Shelf wear to cover. No jacket. Previous owner inscription on front end paper. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Green cloth, gilt, faintly soiled. Interior has some foxing on the page edges, but the text block is clean. A collection of letters, most of them reprinted from magazines. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original teal cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Crown and toe of spine sunned, else a tight, bright near fine copy in a good printed dust jacket with wear and sunning confined to the spine and the top right fore-tip. Scarce. First edition, thus; designated as a "New Edition" in the publisher's Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, the title was first published in 1932. Hogarth's Autumn 1929 catalog announced five new publications from its most prominent author, the first four Uniform Editions (THE VOYAGE OUT, JACOB'S ROOM, MRS DALLOWAY, and THE COMMON READER) and the first regular publication of A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. Surprisingly, the catalog lists the reprint series first. The Uniform Edition appeared with this statement (possibly written by Woolf herself): "The Hogarth Press begins this autumn the publication of a cheap uniform edition, of small and convenient size, of the works of Virginia Woolf. Of the four volumes now published JACOB'S ROOM and MRS DALLOWAY have been out of print for some time." By issuing the Uniform Editions as part of an expanding set - the back jacket for each publication lists those titles already published in the series - Hogarth fosters its consumers' desire to own an entire collection. Thusly, "Virginia Woolf" the brand name becomes both canonically and commercially significant: Collect the whole set! The present publication lists the price of the editions at 5s.0d., yet the dust jacket's spine retains an adhered cancel of 6/0 NET. KIRKPATRICK A18c. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, green cloth lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, unclipped; slightly soiled, with chipping to base of spine. First edition, one of 3200 copies printed. Woolmer 315. An attractive copy of a Woolf classic.

8vo., First Edition; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With Vanessa Bell's 'wolf' design on title. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A SEPIA-TINTED POSTCARD SHOWING THE AUTHOR SEATED READING IN A GARDEN. The first edition was limited to 3200 copies. Kikpatrick A18; Woolmer 315.

green cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Jacket has a few chips along the top and bottom edges. A nice, crisp copy. ; 8vo ; 270 pages.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. Orig. green cloth with dust wrapper by Vanessa Bell. Dust wrapper is slightly darkened on the spine panel and somewhat aged overall, and is chipped shallowly at right side of head of spine and more deeply on both sides of tail of spine, though no lettering is touched (the chip on the left side of the tail just grazes the "H" and "P" of "The/Hogarth/Press"). Back panel of dust wrapper, which is blank, has some chipping along the top edge and a few short tears along the lower edge. Upper right corner of front inside flap tattered, such that the last three letters in the line "The Common Reader" are affected, the "d" is grazed, the "e" is cut into, and the "r" is missing. The price is printed lower down in the flap. Tiny bit of darkening to cloth at foot of spine where protection of dust jacket was lacking, book otherwise very good to near fine. Laid into book are a four-page 16mo leaflet from the Hogarth Press "The Works of Virginia Woolf" and three tearsheets from a contemporary magazine with an article by Woolf, "The love of reading." Pencil name and date of 1936 on front flyleaf.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. First Edition London The Hogarth Press, 1932. Publisher's original pictorial cloth with spotting to first and last leaves (10-12 leaves in total) and to edges of textblock. Jacket with closed tears repaired with tape (see photo), jacket spotted but intact and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Original gilt-titled green cloth. Cloth faintly soiled/foxed. Text block edge slightly toned. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine, slightly edgeworn, mildly foxed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages.

First British editions of these classic collections of Woolf's critical essays. Octavo, volume one in the original publisher's pictorial half-cloth boards, volume two in the original publisher's green cloth. Volume one in very good condition dust jacket. Volume two is very good in a very good dust jacket. Volume two jacket design is by Vanessa Bell, the older sister to Virginia Woolf. Housed in a custom green slipcase. A nice set. The Common Reader (1925) and The Common Reader: Second Series (1932) by Virginia Woolf are collections of literary essays that exemplify her distinctive approach to criticism, blending historical reflection, psychological insight, and stylistic experimentation. Addressed to the âcommon readerâ rather than the academic specialist, the volumes examine writers across three centuries of English literature, including figures such as Defoe, Swift, Hazlitt, Hardy, Meredith, Christina Rossetti, and George Gissing. In the second series, Woolf expands her range with portraits that combine biographical interpretation and evaluative critique, offering nuanced assessments of literary character and cultural context.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf, Virginia. THE COMMON READER: SECOND SERIES. London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. First Edition. 8vo. 270 pp. Richard Strachey's former copy of this edition with his decorative bookplate inside the front pastedown and his address handwritten on the top right corner of the front free endpaper dated January 9, 1933. A very good bright copy in green cloth, gilt titles to the spine lacking the dustwrapper and showing some light general use. Slightly edge worn and foxing on the first and last few pages but none in the interior. Solid and straight edition. A collection of critical essays Woolf worked on after finishing the Waves and working on Flush. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A18a. Woolmer 315.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition, 1932. Great association copy with a handwritten inscription by Lady Ottoline Morrell to her half-brother, William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland, with his armorial bookplate inside the front cover. Lady Ottoline was a great patron of literature and frequently hosted the Bloomsbury group, including Virginia Woolf, and developed a stormy relationship with her. In her memoirs, Lady Ottoline said: "She seemed to feel certain of her own eminence. It is true, but it is rather crushing, for I feel she is very contemptuous of other people. When I stretched out a hand to feel another woman, I found only a very lovely, clear intellect." Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, no dustjacket. Some modest shelfwear, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages. The inscription on the front free endpaper reads: "From Ottoline to my loved Brother" dated Dec 28 1932 (looks like 1922 but that is before the book was published). Below the bookplate is a bookseller ticket from London. Association Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. First Edition, first printing. Octavo. 270pp. Green cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn and scuffed with moderate general soiling. Slight lean to boards and binding sound. Contemporary gift inscription and a couple pencil notations to preliminaries; spotting half and title page; else unmarked; a Very Good copy.

First edition, an exceptionally bright example, with a Hogarth Press advertisement for the works of Virginia Woolf loosely inserted. This copy is the second and last instalment in the Common Reader series, following that of 1925. Woolf's writing was always "permeated with her reading" and in these essays she explores the works of many great authors alongside the context of their lives (Lee, p. 405). These previously published essays come together to reveal the strength of her literary criticism and analytical mind. The volume culminates in the influential and aptly titled "How should one read a book?", in which Woolf details the process of reading as she perceives it, and the space it should occupy in the life of the so-called 'Common Reader'. Kirkpatrick A18a; Woolmer 315. Hermione Lee, Virginia Woolf, 1997. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. Closed tear to advertisement. Mark to rear board, slight browning to edges, contents clean; jacket unclipped, minimal nicks and creasing to edges, short closed tear to front cover near spine: a fine copy in like jacket.

First edition of last instalment in the Common Reader series, following the first of 1925. Through gathering her essays, articles, and reviews which had previously appeared in various places, "Woolf was trying to bring imagination and cohesion to a disparate collection, unified only by her approach and personality. The Times itself saw Woolf as 'a novelist deliberately using her creative imagination' and praised her for 'conduct[ing] us not into the classroom but out of it'" (Clarke, p. xi). Kirkpatrick A18a; Woolmer 315. Stuart N. Clarke, ed., The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929-1932, 1986. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. Contemporary ink and pencil inscriptions on front free endpaper. Spine toned, ends bumped, foxing to cloth and occasional leaves, contents a little marked up in pencil, marks to pp. 94-5; jacket unclipped, lightly foxed, spine toned, couple of chips and tiny punctures: a very good copy in like jacket.