The Death of the Moth by Virginia Woolf, First Edition (47 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. firts ed, fourth impression, Sound binding. very faint, erased, inscription to ffep, spine sunned, pretty good copy with minor signs of age and usage.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition. First published June 1942, second and third impression also Summer1942. The pale blue binding has a large uneven and paler patch, both back and front. Internally, the text is absolutely fine. The grade of the paper is wartime economy standard. A neat name and date to free front end-paper. The content is very varied in subject; mainly short intense pieces, ending up with "Thoughts on peace in an Air Raid." I quote: "Up there in the sky young Englishmen and young German men are fighting each other. The defenders are men, the attackers are men. Arms are not given to Englishwomen either to fight the enemy or to defend herself. She must lie weaponless tonight.".

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. In a blue cloth hardcover with gilt titles to spine. No dust jacket. 157 pp. The book is in very good condition. The cover has minor shelf-wear and heavy sun damage to the extremities, especially the spine. There are a number of marks to the boards including three liquid spill marks to the back board. The binding is tight. There are two ex-libris labels and a sale label, one on top of the other, to the front paste down. Otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked.

Hardcover First Printing. First American Edition. Green cloth stamped in beige on spine. Near fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st. First American Edition; dark green c w/white titles; 248 clean, unmarked pages; owner's name; .includes On Being Ill", "Street Haunting", "A Letter to a Young Poet", "Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid", etc.owner's name Size: 8vo.

hardcover. Condition: Collectable, very good. First American edition (stated). Very Good book without jacket. Bound in dark green cloth, 1942, Harcourt, Brace & Co. Slight wear at tips of corners, very minor rubbing, interior like new. **We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First UK hardcover edition, published by The Hogarth Press, 1942. No dust jacket. This is a posthumously published collection of essays by Virginia Woolf, with an introduction by Leonard Woolf. Besides the title essay, also included are; Old Mrs. Grey, Street Haunting - A London Adventure, Madame De Sevigne, The Humane Art, Reflections at Sheffield Place, The Man at the Gate, and several others - a total of 26 pieces. This is a first UK edition, published by The Hogarth Press. Light blue cloth covered boards with the title and author name imprinted on the spine, 157 pages. The spine shows sun fading, and there is also panels of fading to both the front and back boards - see the attached photos for more details on the condition. The boards are flat, and the corners are not bumped or creased. The boards are flat, and the corners are not bumped or creased. Blue top-stain shows fading too. The other edges of the text block are relatively clean, with just a few dots of age tanning. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Some foxing dots to the first flyleaf page and title page. Attached photo is of the copy we have in our inventory.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Near fine. Bound in publisher's cloth. viii, 248 pages 21 cm.Hardcover. No dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Small bump on top corners. Clean, unmarked pages. Contents:The death of the moth --Evening over Sussex: reflections in a motor car --Three pictures --Old Mrs. Grey --Street haunting --Jones and Wilkinson --" Twelfth night" at the Old Vic --Madame de Se?vigne? --The humane art --Two antiquaries: Walpole and Cole --The Rev. William Cole: a letter --The historian and "The Gibbon" --Reflections at Sheffield Place --The man at the gate --Sara Coleridge --"Not one of us" --Henry James: 1. Within the rim ; 2. The old order ; 3. The letters of Henry James --George Moore --The novels of E.M. Forster --Middlebrow --The art of biography --Craftsmanship --A letter to a young poet --Why? --Professions for women --Thoughts on peace in an air raid.

hardback. Condition: Fine. re-issue. 157pp. Photo portrait frontis. Paper label to the spine. Brown fleck patterned coth. Orig. pub. 1943. A nice copy with no inscriptions. Size: 8vo.

FIRST EDITION, 8vo. (pp. 157), original blue cloth (without dust jacket, name on endpaper, spine and edges of covers faded, ends and preliminary leaves foxed, edges spotted but a sound copy).

First Edition. THE DEATH OF A MOTH, Harcourt Brace, 1942, first American edition, some foxing to the margins of the paste-downs and end-papers, elae a near fine copy in vg dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear and moderate tanning.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Deckled edges and in great condition. Missing dust jacket. A classic, quiet read. (BR) Box 60.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First U.S. edition in its original jacket with a large area of loss at the top of the spine. Loss to all corners of the jacket and wear to the edges. There are, oddly, three different names penned on the cover verso each with the year 1945. Pages 64-65 have a newspaper article laid in entitled Flowers of City All regarding a book about Virginia Woolf s London,that has yellowed the two pages. On the back of the jacket someone has penned out of print next to the listed title of her book The Waves . There is also a penned quote on the verso of the back cover which I find difficult to read and another laid in pencil marked article entitled the Art Of Biography by Woolf.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. ink inscription on cover page. Well worn edges of wrapper with damaged edges. Please see uploaded photos . For more information, please contact us.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Fine in very good plus, slightly spine-tanned dustwrapper. A very nice copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First American edition. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 3-248, [1] pp. Green cloth with white lettering and two white rules on the spine. Price of $3.00 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Ahearn APG 034c. Kirkpatrick A27. Edited by Leonard Woolf. A ten year gap exists between this collection of essays and the final one Woolf published before her death, The Second Common Reader. The Death of the Moth was published the year after Woolf died. A landmark collection of literary essays. A Near Fine book in a Very Good or better jacket that shows toning and very minor edge wear.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Jacket's edges clipped, but original price still remains visible.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Foxing to the foredge and first couple of leaves, thus near fine in very good dustwrapper with shallow loss at the crown, and a tear at the bottom of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First edition. Near fine in an about very good dustwrapper with some overall soiling and a couple of some internal tape repairs.

First US Edition. Nf, light ep foxing, no dj.

Newspaper. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First American Edition. Stated first American edition, green cloth. Name etc inked on front free endpage, darkening at gutter of front pastedown 248 pages; 6 x 8 3/4 ".

1st issue. 1st edition. LONDON: HOGARTH PRESS. Good+ tight condition hardback slight spine fade. 1942. 1st edition. 1st issue. INK NAME. 2 copies of the First Issue. 2nd copy has more fading . Good+ tight condition hardback slight spine fade.

8vo, pp. 157. Spine faded, a VG tight copy. Kirkpatrick A27b. Only 1500 copies were printed. First American edn, probably the second printing.

1st American Edition, and generally a near VG copy with no dw: some slight bumping to spine ends, and a slight sunning mark to of boards. Inked initials and date fep.

First edition, 2nd imp. 157 pp. Blue cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Light foxing on prelims and a little on edges. Spine and top of boards somewhat faded. Overall VG. No dust wrapper.

Cloth Over Boards. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First American Edition. Very solid condition with minor wear at front lower board tip and at head and foot of spine. Square and solid, now protected by covering. .Small mark on top foredge. Interior pages toned, but unmarked. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Dustjacket. 1st edition. New York. 1942. Harcourt Brace & Company. 1st American Edition. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 248 pages. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Death of the Moth is a collection of Virginia Woolf's essays, selected and published posthumously by her husband Leonard Woolf. Specifically, it includes The Death of the Moth, The Humane Art, A Letter to a Young Poet, Thoughts on Peace in an Air Raid, Street Haunting: A London Adventure, and Professions for Women, among others. At the time of her death in March 1941, Woolf was preparing her third volume of collected essays, and it was from this group of essays that her husband Leonard made his selections for this first posthumously published collection. inventory #15598.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition Fourth Impression. 1942 First Edition Fourth impression. Size octavo, 157 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, no dust jacket. Book condition good, corners and spine ends rubbed, spine and inner and upper edges of covers faded, small faded patch to lower corner of front board, end-papers toned, else contents clean. A posthumous collection of Woolf's essays, gathered and seen through the press by Leonard Woolf. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First American Edition. Cloth covered boards with slightly bumped spine ends and corners. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. No previous owner names, stickers or stamps. ; 8.50 X 6.50 X 0.75 inches; 248 pages.

Cloth Bound Boards. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition second impression. 1942 First Edition Second impression. Size octavo, 157 pages. Blue cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, no dust jacket. Book condition good, corners and spine ends rubbed, spine and inner and upper edges of covers faded, small faded patch to front board, previous owner's name to front end-paper "Daphne Nicholson" end-papers toned, else contents clean. A posthumous collection of Woolf's essays, gathered and seen through the press by Leonard Woolf. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.