A Writer's Diary by Virginia Woolf, First Edition (39 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. In an orange cloth hardcover with gilt titles to spine. With an unclipped dust jacket with black titles to spine and front and a black, red and white design to front. 372 pp. The book is in good + condition. There is minor shelf-wear and light sunning to the extremities of the cover, the head of the spine and the top front corner are bumped. The binding is tight. A former owner's name is stamped to the top of the ffep. A cut out photograph of the author was formerly pasted to the half title and has left a mark. A small number of pages have annotations or underlinings in soft pencil. There are a few spots of foxing to the last page of the index and efep. Otherwise the pages are clean and unmarked. The dust jacket is fair with quite heavy shelf-wear to the extremities, including a number of chips and tears. There is extensive tanning and foxing, heaviest to the spine. There is the trace of a label to the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A Writer's Diary: Being Extracts from the Diary of Virginia Woolf, Woolf, Virginia; Leonard Woolf (Editor). Published by The Hogarth Press, London, 1953. First Edition, First Printing. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 372 pp. with chronological bibliography of the books of Virginia Woolf, index of books by Virginia Woolf, general index and, glossary of names used in the diary. Orange cloth boards with gilt spine titles, orange top edge. Contents in unmarked condition; rubbing to spine edges; hinges slightly weak. Lacks dustjacket.

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. Extracts from Virginia Woolf's diary edited by Leonard Woolf. Salmon cloth. Spine and top edges of covers slightly faded under jacket. Jacket by Vanessa Bell edge-worn, chipped at head and tail of spine, slightly soiled, not price-clipped. Name in ink on front free endpaper.

hardcover. Condition: Good. First American Edition No DJ No dust jacket. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Softcover. First Edition; Third Printing. Very Good in wraps. Ink mark on front panel. Staining on panels and spine. Foxing on text block edge. ; 7.9 X 5.4 X 1.0 inches; 355 pages.

Hard. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Moderate shelf wear to cover. Rubbing/light fraying to edges of spine. Spine faded. No jacket. Previous owners inscription on front end page. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. X pp + 372 pages inc index, dustwrapper by her sister Vanessa Bell, orange cloth has a spot on cover and mottled look and ingrained dust at outer edges, contents clean with some passages having pencilled marginalia, wrapper has very edges chipped at head of the spine and a small closed tear on the rear at top edge, the outer edge is handled and darker. A few magazine reviews of the writer loosely inserted inc a TLS review from Nov 20th 1953. Octavo. 1953.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Vanessa Bell (illustrator). First Edition. First impression of the true edition. ***Near fine in orange cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The boards are beautifully clean and unmarked, having been protected by the dustwrapper. There is slight creasing to the top and tail of the spine, and top edge of front board near the spine. Top corner of front board slightly creased - corners otherwise sharp. Top edge of page block stained burnt-orange by the publisher to match the boards - still clean and unfaded. Edges of boards just slightly rubbed. Spine unfaded. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions - just light offsetting to the endpapers, and a small contemporaneous bookseller's label on the front pastedown. No foxing. Pages clean. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. ***In a very good illustrated dustwrapper, designed by Virginia Woolf's artist sister Vanessa Bell. The dustwrapper is virtually complete, with just small areas of loss at the top and tail of the spine and very slight wear at the corner tips of the foldovers. The dustwrapper has not been price-clipped, retaining the original publisher's printed price of 18s. net. There are some marks to the cream areas of the dustwrapper, commensurate with age and handling, and slight browning to the spine, but no fading to the orange colours. No serious creases, chips or tears. Dustwrapper bright. ***372 pages including an Index at the back. 228mm x 148mm. ***'In 1915 Virginia Woolf started to keep a regular diary, and continued to do so till a few days before her death in 1941. For the present volume, Leonard Woolf has extracted from the diaries almost every passage which refers to Virginia Woolf's own writing, together with other passages which indirectly throw light on her creative and critical methods and powers. Since Virginia Woolf constantly used the diaries to discuss with herself the problems of her art, this book gives us a very remarkable insight into the mind and method of one who, in Professor Blackstone's phrase, "did supremely well what no one else has attempted to do." ***"A Writer's Diary" is not merely of technical literary interest: it reveals to us the extraordinary patience and energy, the concentration and integrity which go to the making of works of art. It also contains brilliant descriptions and remarkable portraits of famous and obscure persons.' (Quote taken from the front flap of the dustwrapper) ***First impression of the true first edition, which is now very hard to find complete in the original Vanessa Bell illustrated dustwrapper. The dustwrappers were printed on very thin paper, and very few have survived the last 70 years in such an intact state. A lovely copy. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: good +. first american edition. 6 x 9 in. Orange cloth boards. Stated first American edition, 1954. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers very clean, sunned at edges. Spine head a touch toned. Minor shelf wear. Binding tight. PO's name on ffep, text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; not clipped ($5.00) some faint spots and marks. Corners chipped, 1/2 inch loss to spine head. 2 closed tears at spine rear and back. In a new Mylar wrapper. Fic. RGR.

Condition: Very Good. 1954. Hardback. First US edition. Fine in good cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing some age and shelf wear, sunned to spine. Extremely light pen underscoring. Lightly toned, text is crisp, remains a good copy. First edition copy. . . .

First Edition. Near fine in original wrappers.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Edited by Leonard Woolf. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company (1954). 356 pages, fine in the original cloth in the near fine original dust wrapper under mylar brodart, origina price of 5.00 not price clipped. 1954. after the Hogarth Press 1st ed in London. a very pretty copy. First American Edition. "Virginia Woolf began to keep a regular diary in 1915, and continued to do so till a few days before her death. For the present volume, her husband Leonard Woolf has extracted from the diaries those passages which refer directly to Virginia Woolf's own writing, to her constant and omnivorous reading, and to scenes and people in her life which formed the raw material of her art.there are memora.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 1954. Xii, 356 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Vanessa Bell DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chipping present to the extremities). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present to the front pastedown. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, and those that are relevant to the raw material of her work, and, finally, comments on the books she was reading. The first entry included here is dated 1918 and the last, three weeks before her death in 1941. Between these points of time unfolds the private worldthe anguish, the triumph, the creative visionof one of the great writers of the twentieth century. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 356 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American edition. Edited by Leonard Woolf. Slight sunning along the edges of the boards and spine, spine ends and corners lightly bumped, about near fine in a very good lightly age-toned dust jacket with dampstains on spine, short nicks on spine ends.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, x, 356 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus condition dust jacket. Aged white spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is uncut "$5.00", has mild shelving wear, small open tears along the fore corners and front head spine corner, stains throughout, and mild age-toning throughout. Boards have mild wear along the head and tail edges, and small stains on the head and tail edges. Textblock has a small stain through the contents page, stains on the end-pages, mild wear along the edges, and moderate age-toning along the edges. Shelved Room C. 1394340. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First American edition. Very good+ copy in very good+ dust jacket. (Trace of off-setting at upper edge of front paste-down and end-paper. One corner tip mildly pushed with small bump to edge of front cloth corner. Light chipping to spine ends on jacket. ) ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 356 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. WOOLF, Virginia [356] pp. Harcourt, Brace and Company 1954 First American Edition 8 5/8" x 5 7/8" Jacket design by Vanessa Bell An invaluable guide to the art and mind of Virginia Woolf, drawn by her husband from the personal record she kept over a period of twenty-seven years. Included are entries that refer to her own writing, others that are clearly writing exercises; accounts of people and scenes relevant to the raw material of her work; and comments on books she was reading. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf.

Hardcover. First American Edition. Octavo, x, 356 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine white with black lettering. Dust jacket protected in mylar covering, with price uncut: "$5.00." Minor shelf wear. Light sunning and chipping to covers, with spots of soiling to rear cover. Foxing to top edge of textblock. Interior pages clean. Shelved in Case 2. 1391474. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. Advance excerpt. Edited by Leonard Woolf. Slim octavo. [16]pp. Tiny bit of wear and soil, staples a bit oxidized, just about fine. Features a one-page "About the book," followed by extracts from the publication. Uncommon.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. First American Edition, First Printing. A Fine copy in pale beige colored cloth stamped in silver, in a brilliant Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped. 356pp. with Index. Q17064.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. This book is bound in bright orange boards with the top edge stained orange, The gilt letters on the spine are slightly faded. There is a crease the length of the spine. There is light wear on the spine tips & cover corners. There is a previous owners ink dedication on the front endpaper. The contents are clean & unmarked, the binding is tight. The dust jacket has chips off the spine tips, wear on the cover corners, a 2 cm chip off the top of the back cover, closed tears along the edges of the spine & tape on the outsides of the covers & flaps. ONLY FAIR.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First American Edition and Advance Review copy With the original Harcourt, Brace and Company review slip dated February 18, 1954 for $5.00 laid in. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. A near fine copy in the publisher's orange cloth covered boards, stamped silver on the spine in a beautiful Vanessa Bell dust wrapper, an almost indiscernible closed tear on the front panel.Some shelf-wear. 8vo. 356 pp. Edited and with a Preface by Leonard Woolf. A partial view of Woolf, pertaining strictly to her writing. It was not until Woolf's full Diaries were published that they were recognized as one of her literary masterpieces. A lovely copy indeed. "If Virginia Woolf at the age of 50, when she sits down to build her memoirs out of these books, is unable to make a phrase as it should be made, I can only condole with her and remind her of the existence of the fireplace, where she has my leave to burn these pages to so many black films with red eyes in them.".

8vo. pp. x, 372. index. cloth. dw. (some discolouration to dw & tears to edges). First Edition.

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. x, 372, [2]. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt, white dustjacket designed by Vanessa Bell printed in black and orange. Dustjacket lightly soiled, edges slightly worn, spine panel toned, splits to spine panel folds (one neatly repaired internally with clear tape). Ownership inscription dated 4th November, 1953 to front flyleaf. The first printing of Virginia Woolf?s diaries, carefully selected by her husband Leonard Woolf after her death, with a dustjacket designed by her sister, Vanessa Bell. While he admits in the preface that it is ?nearly always a mistake to publish extracts from diaries or letters?, he has proceeded in this project which gives attention to ?practically everything which referred to her own writing? as well as passages of her writing practice, her artistics impressions of daily life, and her thoughts on books. There were 9000 copies printed in this edition for publication on 2 November, 1953, with a second impression of 5250 copies following in December of 1953. Kirkpatrick A31a.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Edited by Leonard Woolf, cover design by Vanessa Bell, 1st printing, not price clipped (18s net), no owner's name or other inscription, page ends age toned (text unaffected), some discolouration at head and base of spine, bound in salmon coloured cloth with gilt lettering. D/j appears grubby and although complete has some loss to extremities. D/j spine tanned with some tears to spine sides. D/j now protected by a clear removable sleeve.

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.

Orange Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Bound in orange cloth with gilt lettering. Pictorial dust jacket sunned and lightly bumped. Clean interior. Compiled by her husband after her passing, this volume gives insight into the mind, writing exercises, and readings of the famous English author. Size: Octavo. Book.

First Edition, first printing. 8vo. pp x + 372. Original orange cloth boards, with the orange and black 'Bloomsbury' dust-jacket designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell. Wrapper is not price-clipped but the spine is browned and there is a small amount of loss at the head and tail. Other than that, condition of book both and jacket is excellent, with two former owner's neat inscriptions to first free endpaper (author Justin Wintle and 'Olivia Ellis', both dated. Top edge of text block stained orange, to match the cloth. Internally clean, no foxing or offsetting, and text block is tight and square. Pages clean. No reading lean to the binding. A VG+ copy all round. Virginia Woolf left behind her twenty-six volume diary, started in 1915, following death by her own hand in 1941. Her husband, Leonard, distilled from it "everything which referred to her own writing", thus providing "an unusual psychological picture of artistic production from within". In this way. the journal gives for twenty-seven years a consecutive record of what she did, the people she saw, and particularly of what she thought about those people, about herself, about life, and about the books she was writing or hoped to write. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, second printing. Unclipped dj good with minor soiling and tears. Jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Orange cloth cover has water stains. Binding tight. Text clean. 372 pp.