The Common Reader: Second Series.. This item is unavailable.The Common Reader: Second Series.

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.