Common Reader Second Series by Virginia Woolf, First Edition (30 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. British edition, second printing, November 1932 (first printing was October 1932). No jacket. Green boards with gold lettering to spine are very good with a hint of pushing/bumping to corners, a few small marks, a little patchy browning (including to spine), the odd small bump/rub to edges and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Previous owner's name, date and address in pen to front end-paper. Odd small mark/minor foxing to page edges and tops. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to bottom edge of pages. Pages bit tanned. Occasional small marks/spots of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edn. 8vo. orig. cl. no d/w. Bds. and spine very marked, occasional foxing. generally good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. "Combined Edition in One Volume Published 1948". First thus, very good in a good or worse dust jacket. Blue cloth is a little worn at edges and on spine; small bits of jacket adhering to front board in a few places. Owner name, place, and date on front endpaper. The jacket is in two pieces - both front and rear panels are attached to the flaps, but no spine. The jacket, with a $4.00 price on front flap, is laid in. Hinges are tight; interior of book is clean and square. 0.

Hard. Condition: Good. 1st Edition, 2nd Impression. 1st Edition, 2nd Impression. Pages clean and bright. Binding tight. Sunning to edges. Boards tidy. Shelf wear to cover. No jacket. Previous owner inscription on front end paper. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First American Edition Thus. cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., book has owner signature to front free endpaper. dj is missing most of the spine with sparse, shallow edge-wear, the beautiful cover illustration by vanessa bell is happily intact, as are the flaps and 90% of the rear panel. flap price intact. all is preserved in a new folded mylar protector. no other markings. no foxing, bumps. strong binding.; the contents appeared in two separate publications dated, 1925 and 1932.; original paginations preserved, 332pp. and 295pp. 53 reviews, essays, and other texts. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover w/DJ. Condition: Used-Good/Used-Acceptable. Black & white photographs (illustrator). First Edition. London, UK: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. Used-Good/Used-Acceptable. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover w/DJ. 2ND IMPRESSION . 8vo., 270 pp., DJ rubbed, frayed, chipped, cover edges darkened, pages lightly toned .

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; Second Printing. Dust jacket shows some mild damp stains, rubbing to folds, and some chipping to edges and corners. Blue cloth boards show minor wear to edges and corners. Age tone to endpapers and edges. ; Boards are square, flat and clean. Tight binding. Interior is clean and unmarked. Dust jacket has been placed in removeable protective cover. Large/heavy book: international buyers may be charged for additional shipping costs.; 8.0 X 5.7 X 1.6 inches.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 5th Impression. Green bds with crisp gilt title, bumped top front cnr and a little faded at edges o/w unworn, 270 pages, very bright and crisp. Yellow DJ has light wear at spine head, toned spine, price clipped. Overall a very nice copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 6 X 9 inches. 270 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt type to spine. A little bowing to boards. 1932 First Edition, with no additional printings listed. Not ex-library. Former owner's name on front end page, otherwise unmarked. Acidic pages somewhat toned. Solid square binding. Her second book of collected essays.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 5th Impression. Green bds with crisp gilt title, light crush top edge near cnr due to titght shelving o/w unworn, 270 pages, very bright and crisp. Yellow DJ has light wear dust spotting, small nick at front leading edge price clipped. Overall a very nice copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Cloth. Condition: VG+. 1st Edition. 8vo. Gilt lettered green cloth. Lacking the dust jacket. Her second book of collected essays. A very good copy with shelfwear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Green cloth, gilt, faintly soiled. Interior has some foxing on the page edges, but the text block is clean. A collection of letters, most of them reprinted from magazines. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, without dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Original teal cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Crown and toe of spine sunned, else a tight, bright near fine copy in a good printed dust jacket with wear and sunning confined to the spine and the top right fore-tip. Scarce. First edition, thus; designated as a "New Edition" in the publisher's Uniform Edition of the Works of Virginia Woolf, the title was first published in 1932. Hogarth's Autumn 1929 catalog announced five new publications from its most prominent author, the first four Uniform Editions (THE VOYAGE OUT, JACOB'S ROOM, MRS DALLOWAY, and THE COMMON READER) and the first regular publication of A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. Surprisingly, the catalog lists the reprint series first. The Uniform Edition appeared with this statement (possibly written by Woolf herself): "The Hogarth Press begins this autumn the publication of a cheap uniform edition, of small and convenient size, of the works of Virginia Woolf. Of the four volumes now published JACOB'S ROOM and MRS DALLOWAY have been out of print for some time." By issuing the Uniform Editions as part of an expanding set - the back jacket for each publication lists those titles already published in the series - Hogarth fosters its consumers' desire to own an entire collection. Thusly, "Virginia Woolf" the brand name becomes both canonically and commercially significant: Collect the whole set! The present publication lists the price of the editions at 5s.0d., yet the dust jacket's spine retains an adhered cancel of 6/0 NET. KIRKPATRICK A18c. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall.

8vo., First Edition; original green cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean, crisp copy. With Vanessa Bell's 'wolf' design on title. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A SEPIA-TINTED POSTCARD SHOWING THE AUTHOR SEATED READING IN A GARDEN. The first edition was limited to 3200 copies. Kikpatrick A18; Woolmer 315.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Vanessa Bell (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition, no additional printings, Vanessa Bell dustjacket; 8vo, green cloth; good (boards bowed, soiled, and darkened; spine and edges toned and darkened; shelfworn; white candle wax removed from bottom edge of boards, rfep, and bottom edge; bump to bottom edge of front board; spine ends and corners bumped and worn; scrapes to side edge; eps and pages toned; cracked at pp80-1 and 176-7; tear to bottom edge of p21-2 and 196-7; top corners of pp105-18 creased; small chip to side margin of pp141-54, no loss of text; soil to bottom margins of pp174-5; crease to bottom margin of pp197-240) in poor dj (split in two where front panel and flap detached from spine, rear panel, and rear flap; toned, soiled, and stained; heavily chipped, torn, worn, and creased; large chips missing from edges of rear panel; spine ends torn off, text missing from 'The' and 'Press'); 270pp.

green cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Jacket has a few chips along the top and bottom edges. A nice, crisp copy. ; 8vo ; 270 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Octavo, green cloth lettered in gilt; pictorial dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, unclipped; slightly soiled, with chipping to base of spine. First edition, one of 3200 copies printed. Woolmer 315. An attractive copy of a Woolf classic.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. Attractively bound in finely woven blue cloth, stamped brightly in gilt on the spine. Name in ink on front endpdpaer; clean and tight throughout.With some faint dampstaing to the rear boards. In a complete dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell and with the original price of $4.00 at the top of the inside front flap. The rear panel of the dust jacket has some light dampstaining along the top edges and to the right of the list of titles. Small tears. Adeline Virginia Woolf ( January 1882 28 March 1941) was an English writer. She is considered one of the most important modernist 20th-century authors. She pioneered the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device.Woolf was born into an affluent household in South Kensington, London. She was the seventh child of Julia Prinsep Jackson and Leslie Stephen in a blended family of eight that included the modernist painter Vanessa Bell. She was home-schooled in English classics and Victorian literature from a young age. From 1897 to 1901, she attended the Ladies' Department of King's College London. There, she studied classics and history, coming into contact with early reformers of women's higher education and the women's rights movement.After her father's death in 1904, the Stephen family moved from Kensington to the more bohemian Bloomsbury, where, in conjunction with the brothers' intellectual friends, they formed the artistic and literary Bloomsbury Group. In 1912, she married Leonard Woolf, and in 1917, the couple founded the Hogarth Press, which published much of her work. They rented a home in Sussex and permanently settled there in 1940. (Wikipedia) First Edition: Combined edition in one volume published in 1948.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1948, First American combined Edition of the First and second series. Hardcover. Blue cloth boards with stamped title on binding. Rubbing on both ends of binding. 295 pages in good condition, albeit yellowed due to age. Very minimal pencilled underlining by prior owner.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. First edition. Orig. green cloth with dust wrapper by Vanessa Bell. Dust wrapper is slightly darkened on the spine panel and somewhat aged overall, and is chipped shallowly at right side of head of spine and more deeply on both sides of tail of spine, though no lettering is touched (the chip on the left side of the tail just grazes the "H" and "P" of "The/Hogarth/Press"). Back panel of dust wrapper, which is blank, has some chipping along the top edge and a few short tears along the lower edge. Upper right corner of front inside flap tattered, such that the last three letters in the line "The Common Reader" are affected, the "d" is grazed, the "e" is cut into, and the "r" is missing. The price is printed lower down in the flap. Tiny bit of darkening to cloth at foot of spine where protection of dust jacket was lacking, book otherwise very good to near fine. Laid into book are a four-page 16mo leaflet from the Hogarth Press "The Works of Virginia Woolf" and three tearsheets from a contemporary magazine with an article by Woolf, "The love of reading." Pencil name and date of 1936 on front flyleaf.

New edition and first edition, second impression respectively; 2 vols, 8vo (18 x 12.5 cm and 21.5 x 14.5 cm); unmarked internally; half green morocco by Bumpus, gilt lettering to spines, all edges gilt, spines faded, else very good. Woolf's famous collections of essays, first published in 1925 and 1932 respectively.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Original gilt-titled green cloth. Cloth faintly soiled/foxed. Text block edge slightly toned. Tight and square. The DJ in mylar is sunned to spine, slightly edgeworn, mildly foxed. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 270 pages.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Vanessa Bell (illustrator). First edition. A smart example of Virginia Woolf's fascinating work of literary criticism, in the original dust wrapper designed by Vanessa Bell. The first edition, first impression, being one of 3200 copies. In the original unclipped dust wrapper designed by Vanessa Bell. The Common Reader: Second Series, was the second collection of Woolf's essays published, following on from the successful first in 1925. Arranged in chronological order, the volume begins with Elizabethan authors, all the way to her contemporary, Thomas Hardy. Woolf's essays are enthusuastic and insightful and highlight her skill as a journalist and critic. Written by the Bloomsbury author Virginia Woolf, a central figure of the literary group, herself known for her experimental writings and affair with fellow author Vita Sackville-West. Published by the Hogarth Press, the Bloomsbury publishing house founded ran by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The press was founded in the interwar period, as printing became a hobby for the couple, diverting Virginia when her writing became too stressful. Both Woolfs' taught themselves to use a printing press, publishing 527 titles from the period of 1917 to 1946. In the original green cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally very smart with minor bumping to the extremities and head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is very smart with spotting to the wrap. The occasional closed tear and chipping to the wrap, worse to the head and tail of the spine. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean with just the odd spot, heavier to the fore edge. Very Good Indeed. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. First edition, first printing. One of 3200 copies. Publisher's bright jade-green cloth boards with spine in gilt; in its original dust jacket illustrated by Vanessa Bell, with a figure seated in a chair to front panel, printed in vermilion and azure (orange and blue). Near fine book, with light toning to spine and board edges, bright spine gilt, light spotting to top edge and a few pages near front, and light offsetting to endpapers; good dust jacket, with heavy fading to the blue on the spine, some shallow chipping to spine ends, some toning and soiling to spine and panels, a vertical crease along left edge of front panel, light rippling to rear panel and flaps, a few small closed tears to edges, some yellowing tape to edges of jacket verso, and lightly nicked corners. With Hogarth Press' "The Works of Virginia Woolf" promotional pamphlet laid in. Overall, a sturdy copy. Kirkpatrick A18a. Woolmer 315. The Common Reader: Second Series is a collection of twenty-six essays written by Virginia Woolf in an accessible manner and geared towards the larger population of readers. The essays are wide-ranging and analyze and comment on the works and styles of a variety of writers, including John Donne, Thomas Hardy, Thomas de Quincey, and more. This collection of essays, released in 1932, was a follow-up to her successful 1925 collection of essays, The Common Reader: First Series, and gives wonderful insight into Woolf's personal relationship with literature. A member of the Bloomsbury Group, an influential group of writers and intellectuals who lived near Bloomsbury, London, Woolf is regarded as one of the greatest authors of the 20th century. She penned such classics as Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, and Orlando. In a major poll conducted by the BBC in 2015, To the Lighthouse and Mrs. Dalloway came in at numbers two and three respectively on a list of the 100 greatest British novels of all time.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf, Virginia. THE COMMON READER: SECOND SERIES. London: The Hogarth Press, 1932. First Edition. 8vo. 270 pp. Richard Strachey's former copy of this edition with his decorative bookplate inside the front pastedown and his address handwritten on the top right corner of the front free endpaper dated January 9, 1933. A very good bright copy in green cloth, gilt titles to the spine lacking the dustwrapper and showing some light general use. Slightly edge worn and foxing on the first and last few pages but none in the interior. Solid and straight edition. A collection of critical essays Woolf worked on after finishing the Waves and working on Flush. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A18a. Woolmer 315.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American combined edition. Blue cloth boards with gilt titles on spine. Gilt rubbed a bit on spine, else near fine in attractive spine-toned, very good or better Vanessa Bell-illustrated dust jacket with shallow loss at the spine ends. Pulitzer Prize novelist and Academy Award-winning screenwriter Larry McMurtry's copy, with his bookplate on the front pastedown and his early, neat owner Signature on the front flyleaf. A handsome copy and nice association.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. First edition, 1932. Great association copy with a handwritten inscription by Lady Ottoline Morrell to her half-brother, William Arthur, Sixth Duke of Portland, with his armorial bookplate inside the front cover. Lady Ottoline was a great patron of literature and frequently hosted the Bloomsbury group, including Virginia Woolf, and developed a stormy relationship with her. In her memoirs, Lady Ottoline said: "She seemed to feel certain of her own eminence. It is true, but it is rather crushing, for I feel she is very contemptuous of other people. When I stretched out a hand to feel another woman, I found only a very lovely, clear intellect." Green cloth with gilt spine lettering, no dustjacket. Some modest shelfwear, good hinges, sound text block, clean pages. The inscription on the front free endpaper reads: "From Ottoline to my loved Brother" dated Dec 28 1932 (looks like 1922 but that is before the book was published). Below the bookplate is a bookseller ticket from London. Association Copy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: Very Good. London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1932. First Edition, first printing. Octavo. 270pp. Green cloth boards with spine stamped in gilt; dark topstain. No dust jacket. Boards lightly worn and scuffed with moderate general soiling. Slight lean to boards and binding sound. Contemporary gift inscription and a couple pencil notations to preliminaries; spotting half and title page; else unmarked; a Very Good copy.

First edition of the second and last instalment in the Common Reader series, following the first instalment of 1925. Through gathering her essays, articles, and reviews which had previously appeared in various places, "Woolf was trying to bring imagination and cohesion to a disparate collection, unified only by her approach and personality. The Times itself saw Woolf as 'a novelist deliberately using her creative imagination' and praised her for 'conduct[ing] us not into the classroom but out of it'" (Clarke, p. xi). Kirkpatrick A18a; Woolmer 315. Stuart N. Clarke, ed., The Essays of Virginia Woolf, Volume 5: 1929-1932, 1986. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket by Vanessa Bell. Binding bright and square, sporadic foxing, browning to pp. 40-1 from newspaper clipping, loosely inserted; jacket lightly foxed, spine toned, shallow chips to ends and corners, unclipped: a very good copy in like jacket.