Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Volumes One and Two (Bound together in a single volume)
by BELL, Quentin
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151937656
- ISBN 13
- 9780151937653
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0151937656 . A two-volume biography of the noted English modernist writer, bound together in a single volume. Vol. 1 describes the life of Virginia Stephen from 1882 to 1912 prior to her marriage to Leonard Woolf, with a section of black & white plates and family tree. Vol. 2 covers the years 1912-1941, with another section of photos and index to both volumes. Each part with appended further writings and chronologies. This work originally published in two separate volumes in the UK by the Hogarth Press. The author, Quentin Bell, was a nephew of Virginia Woolf. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket features photographic portraits of Ms. Woolf to both front and back panels. --- With prior owner's blacked-over info. to front free endpaper, foxing to textblock edges; else a tightly-bound, intact copy. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket with several open tears, chips and yellowing to front panel, remains mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xvii, 216, 314 pages .
Synopsis
The first full-scale biography of the eminent British writer, written by her nephew. Index; photographs.
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 84662
- Title
- Virginia Woolf: A Biography, Volumes One and Two (Bound together in a single volume)
- Author
- BELL, Quentin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0151937656
- ISBN 13
- 9780151937653
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Keywords
- 0151937656
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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