The London Scene: Five Essays by Virginia Woolf
by WOOLF, Virginia
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394528662
- ISBN 13
- 9780394528663
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: Random House. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket. 1982. Hardcover. 0394528662 . A second printing of the American trade edition of Virginia Woolf's collection of essays, in which she offers observations about the city of London. Per the jacket flap, Ms. Woolf blends ". . .solid information and imaginiative flights of fancy, fact and poetry." The essays were originally written in the 1930s. --- In full maroon cloth-covered boards with author initials to cover and spine titling both in gilt in this slim volume. Jacket with Angelica Garnett illustrations to front and back panels. --- An excellent copy, unmarked and tightly-bound. Unclipped ($10) dust jacket with a little curling to edges, otherwise intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; 44 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 86778
- Title
- The London Scene: Five Essays by Virginia Woolf
- Author
- WOOLF, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0394528662
- ISBN 13
- 9780394528663
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1982
- Keywords
- 0394528662
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