Lot 255
Woolf (Virginia) The Common Reader, first edition, 1925.
Hammer Price: £750
Description
Woolf (Virginia) The Common Reader, first edition, occasional light foxing, endpapers browned, bookplate, original cloth-backed boards, light browning to head and foot, dust-jacket, spine a little browned with 1" portion of loss to foot, some minor creasing and chipping to head, still a very good example of scarce and fragile jacket, 8vo, 1925.
⁂ Virginia Woolf dedicated her first collection of essays "To Lytton Strachey." According to Woolf's diary, Strachey said The Common Reader "was divine, a classic."
Description
Woolf (Virginia) The Common Reader, first edition, occasional light foxing, endpapers browned, bookplate, original cloth-backed boards, light browning to head and foot, dust-jacket, spine a little browned with 1" portion of loss to foot, some minor creasing and chipping to head, still a very good example of scarce and fragile jacket, 8vo, 1925.
⁂ Virginia Woolf dedicated her first collection of essays "To Lytton Strachey." According to Woolf's diary, Strachey said The Common Reader "was divine, a classic."