Jacob's Room.
de WOOLF, Virginia
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London, United Kingdom
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Sobre este artículo
London: The Hogarth Press,, 1929. First edition thus, the Hogarth Press "Uniform Edition", first impression, inscribed by Woolf on the front free endpaper, "Theodora Bosanquet, from Virginia Woolf, 1935". Bosanquet (1880-1961) was the secretary of Henry James, and had been twice published by Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press: first in 1924 with Henry James at Work, then in 1933 with a study of Paul Valery. Inscribed copies of this early Woolf novel are very scarce. Octavo. Original cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Housed in a navy blue cloth folding case. Spine sunned through jacket, a sound copy, clean within and in general very good, with the jacket toned around spine, a little rubbed to ends and corners with some minimal tissue repair to verso.
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- Librería
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 153567
- Título
- Jacob's Room.
- Autor
- WOOLF, Virginia
- Estado del libro
- Usado
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- Lugar de publicación
- London: The Hogarth Press,
- Fecha de publicación
- 1929
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Peter Harrington
Miembro de Biblio desde 2006
London
Sobre 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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- Cloth
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- Inscribed
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- First Edition
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- Sunned
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- 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...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Spine
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...