Woolf Virginia Woolf Leonard Ed (5 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Good trade paperback, slight wear.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. boards are edge worn. foxing. a few inscriptions. text remains clear and legible. may require extra postage. [SK]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Orange cloth boards, lettered in gilt on spine. x,371[1]pp. 8 ¾ x 5 ½. Vanessa Bell dust jacket. Chronological bibliography and an index. Some offsetting from the wraps to free endpapers, spine lightly sunned, else a very good or better copy in an unclipped, white dust jacket printed in orange and black, toned at edges, sunned at spine. Formerly in the collection of R. O. Blechman, an American animator, illustrator, children's-book author, graphic novelist and editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. First edition, first printing. Edited by Leonard Woolf, who explains in the preface it was his hope to extract and distill entries culled from 26 volumes of diaries that related to her own writing, and indeed, the writing process and life as she lived it. While she began keeping diaries in 1915, this edition contains excerpts from August 1918 where, in referring to Katherine Mansfield, Woolf writes, "I threw down BLISS with the exclamation, 'She's done for!' . I shall have to accept the fact, I am afraid, that her mind is very thin soil, laid an inch or two deep upon very barren rock," to Sunday, March 8, 1941, "Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down." . KIRKPATRICK A31a.…

Condition: Fair. 1953. First Edition. 372 pages. Illustrated jacket, priced 18s net, over orange cloth with gilt titles to spine. Pages have slight foxing, tanning and minor thumbing. Slight gutter cracking. Binding is firm. Foxing and tanning more noticeable towards start and end of book (corresponding with DJ flaps) and on text block edges. Previous owner's pen inscription to front endpaper. Rear endpaper torn: approx 25% missing. Boards have moderate edge wear, with slight bumping to corners and spine ends. Boards a little rubbed and marked overall. Spine and board edges are a little sunned. Faint pale marks. Traces of paint to lower edge of front board. Book has a forward lean. Gilt is dulled and worn. Unclipped jacket has heavy edgewear with areas of loss, heavy tears, chips and creasing. Rather rubbed and marked overall. A few liquid droplet marks. Spine heavily sunned.…