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Three Guineas.
by WOOLF, Virginia
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: The Hogarth Press,, 1938. Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes First edition, first impression, an exceptional copy in the dust jacket, so often found toned or worn, but here sharp. Written as a companion piece to her earlier essay, A Room of One's Own, this work addresses how women can influence and prevent the rise of militarism, even though they are excluded from education, professional employment, and the public sphere. Octavo. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket, designed by Vanessa Bell. With 5 photographic half-tone plates. Spine very slightly faded and endpapers lightly browned, as always; minimal rubbing to unclipped jacket, just a few small marks and tiny nicks to extremities: a near-fine copy in near-fine jacket. Kirkpatrick A23a; Woolmer 440.
Synopsis
Three Guineas is written as a series of letters in which Virginia Woolf ponders the efficacy of donating to various causes to prevent war. In reflecting on her situation as the "daughter of an educated man" in 1930s England, Woolf challenges liberal orthodoxies and marshals vast research to make discomforting and still-challenging arguments about the relationship between gender and violence, and about the pieties of those who fail to see their complicity in war-making. This pacifist-feminist essay is a classic whose message resonates loudly in our contemporary global situation. Annotated and with an introduction by Jane Marcus
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 172936
- Title
- Three Guineas.
- Author
- WOOLF, Virginia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: The Hogarth Press,
- Date Published
- 1938
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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