HOURS IN A LIBRARY
Woolf Virginia
Published by New York Harcourt, Brace and Company [1957]
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First Edition, privately printed in a very small number for friends of the publisher, given as greetings for New Year's. Laid in is a card signed by publisher William Jovanovich. with a portrait drawing of Virginia Woolf from a photograph taken of her at age twenty. Small 8vo, publisher's original black boards embossed in blind and lettered in gilt on the upper cover, backed in blue cloth and in the original glassine wrapper. 24pp, A pristine copy, the book and laid-in card both in very fine condition. Even the rare glassine is only lightly aged with a few chips and some rubbing at the extremities, but remains fully intact. A SCARCE HOLIDAY PRESENTATION FROM WILLIAM JOVANOVICH, who, at this time, was serving as the director of Harcourt, Brace and Comany. In 1970 the firm would change its name to Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich in his honor. The title to Woolf's essay comes from a book published by her father, Leslie Stephen, in the 1890s. A collection of essays on various authors, it was his most popular publication. Woolf's essay includes an introductory note provided by her husband, Leonard Woolf. He states that HOURS IN A LIBRARY "gives the truest possible picture of her own attitude to books, to reading, and to the art of literature.". Seller Inventory # 34213
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Title: HOURS IN A LIBRARY
Publisher: New York Harcourt, Brace and Company [1957]
Binding: Hardcover
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
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Hours in a Library
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Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1957
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Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First separate edition. Slim small octavo. 24pp. Black cloth boards, blue cloth spine. Private library blindstamp on title page else fine in a very good glassine dust jacket (not pictured) with tiny chips and tears, and a crease on one flap. Privately printed for the friends of the publishers as a New Year's greeting. Seller Inventory # 609421
Hours in a Library
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Frontispiece. 24pp. 12mo. Condition: Blue and black cloth. Fiine. Frontispiece. 24pp. 12mo. Seller Inventory # 320773
Hours in a Library.
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New York: Harcourt, Brace, [1957]., 1957
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Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
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Small octavo. 24 pp. Cloth. Fine in glassine d.j. Glassine lightly toned and chipped. First edition, privately printed by the publisher as a New Year's greeting for friends. Seller Inventory # 14902
HOURS IN A LIBRARY
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Harcourt, Brace, (1957), New York, 1957
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Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
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Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Limited Edition, privately printed 'for the friends of the publishers as a New Year's greeting'. Introduction by Leonard Woolf. Frontispiece drawing of Woolf, from a photograph of her at age 20. Slim 12mo. 24 pp. One quarter blue cloth with gilt lettering on the front panel and Woolf's initials blind-stamped on the front panel. A crisp, clean copy of this gift book. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A33. Seller Inventory # 33256