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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st American edition, 1st printing ; 352 pp. ; color illustrations, maps ; 31 cm. ; ISBN: 0789453401 ; LCCN: 99048242 ; LC: SB434 .P4733 2000 ; Dewey: 635.9/32 ; color photographic boards in similarly illustrated dustjacket ; "Each entry combines a plant portrait with a concise botanical description, plus cultivation and propagation details. Helpful symbols indicate preferred growing conditions and cold hardiness."--dustjacket ; scratch on back dustjacket just begins to cut through, else FINE/VG. Book. …

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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 301 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Flush: A Biography (1933), Woolf's second radical experiment in biography (after Orlando: A Biography) was a runaway best-seller. This life of the pet spaniel of Victorian poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, playfully tests humananimal boundaries and speaks to rising concerns with class, sexuality and eugenics. This edition demonstrates Flush's historical grounding in the Brownings' era and Woolf's own. It provides rigorous, transparent collation of all extant states of Flush published in Woolf's lifetime. The extensive Explanatory Notes offer fresh insight into sociopolitical and literary contexts. This edition presents, for the first time, full transcriptions of Woolf's reading notebooks and drafts, plus the serialised Atlantic Monthly version. The Introduction maps composition history and draws on rediscovered early reviews. It charts Flush's critical reception to current renewed critical interest. This edition establishes Flush as a playfully ironic and seriously experimental work worthy of wide readership and sustained scholarly attention. The book is the first scholarly edition of Flush. It provides readers with an authoritative text based on the collation of the different published versions of Flush, and contains comprehensive annotations that provide fresh insights into Woolf's book. Its scholarship will form the basis of further Woolf scholarship. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 966 pages. 8.50x5.43x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Buch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - Flush: A Biography (1933), Woolf's second radical experiment in biography (after Orlando: A Biography) was a runaway best-seller. This life of the pet spaniel of Victorian poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning, playfully tests human-animal boundaries and speaks to rising concerns with class, sexuality and eugenics. This edition demonstrates Flush's historical grounding in the Brownings' era and Woolf's own. It provides rigorous, transparent collation of all extant states of Flush published in Woolf's lifetime. The extensive Explanatory Notes offer fresh insight into sociopolitical and literary contexts. This edition presents, for the first time, full transcriptions of Woolf's reading not Elektronisches Buch and drafts, plus the serialised Atlantic Monthly version. The Introduction maps composition history and draws on rediscovered early reviews. It charts Flush's critical reception to current renewed critical interest. This edition establishesFlush as a playfully ironic and seriously experimental work worthy of wide readership and sustained scholarly attention.…

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 301 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.