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BETWEEN THE ACTS
by Woolf, Virginia
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+/Very Good+
- Seller
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Surprise, Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co, 1941. First American Edition. Hard Cover with Dust Jacket. Very Good+/Very Good+. Octavo. 219pp. Bound in blue cloth with gilt letterig spine. A very good+ copy with some faint spotting to spine, off-setting to endpapers, in clipped dust jacket designed by Vanessa with darkening to the spine, minimal edge wear.
Synopsis
Between the Acts is the final novel by Virginia Woolf, published in 1941 shortly after her suicide. This is a book laden with hidden meaning and allusion. It describes the mounting, performance, and audience of a festival play (hence the title) in a small English village just before the outbreak of the Second World War. Much of it looks forward to the war, with veiled allusions to connection with the continent by flight, swallows representing aircraft, and plunging into darkness.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2043
- Title
- BETWEEN THE ACTS
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover with Dust Jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1941
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
Biblio member since 2006
Surprise, Arizona
About Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.
We specialize in Rare and Antiquarian First Editions, Literature, Americana, Important Manuscripts and Historic Autographs.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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