The Common Reader [First Series]

Woolf, Virginia

Published by Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York,, 1925

About this Item

6 X 9 inches, 332 pages, Maroon cloth hardcover with faded gilt type on spine, blind stamped log on cover. Reinforced library hinge binding and tape on exterior hinge. Hardcover. Condition: Good. Withdrawn library copy with stamps and lending pocket. Internal sheets clean, deckle edged paper Lacking dust jacket. The first U.S. edition, which includes one essay, "Miss Ormerod", not found in the first English edition. Contents: The Common Reader -- The Pastons and Chaucer -- On Not Knowing Greek -- The Elizabethan Lumber Room -- Notes on an Elizabethan Play -- Montaigne -- The Duchess of Newcastle -- Rambling round Evelyn -- Defoe -- Addison -- The Lives of the Obscure: The Taylors and the Edgeworths; Laetitia Pilkington; Miss Ormerod -- Jane Austen -- Modern Fiction -- "Jane Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" -- George Eliot -- The Russian Point of View -- Outlines: Miss Mitford; Dr. Bentley; Lady Dorothy Nevill; Archbishop Thomson -- The Patron and the Crocus -- The Modern Essay -- Joseph Conrad -- How It Strikes a Contemporary. Copyright 1925 with "4" beneath copyright year. Seller Inventory # 2411052Garunit1

Bibliographic Details

Title: The Common Reader [First Series]

Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Co, New York,

Publication Date: 1925

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

Edition: 1st Edition