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The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays
by Woolf, Virginia
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good+
- Seller
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Madison, Wisconsin, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company [1950], 1950. First American edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good+. 8vo. [4], v-viii, [2], 3-248 pp. Blue cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Ahearn APG 038a. Dust jacket designed by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. The first American edition precedes the first British edition. A collection of twenty-six essays by one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century. A lovely copy. A Near Fine book with a bookseller's ticket on the free front endpaper (Bay Colony Bookshop of Boston) in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket with a tiny nick to the crown of the spine.
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- Bookseller
- Evening Star Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 00008132
- Title
- The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt, Brace and Company [1950]
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1950
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Evening Star Books
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Madison, Wisconsin
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