Augustine Birrell," contained in THE YALE REVIEW A NATIONAL QUARTERLY
by WOOLF, Virginia
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- first
- Condition
- Very good or better.
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About This Item
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. SUMMER 1930. Very good or better.. Octavo, pp. 754-761. Tear-sheets, side-stapled in their original blue printed wrappers. Offprint from THE YALE REVIEW, Summer 1930. Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, UK bookseller's pencil notations [original price list advice at £500 laid in] on p.xxix, bookplate of the noted Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press and related Bloomsbury items collector, William Beekman, affixed to verso of upper wrapper, else very good or better. First printing of this review of THE COLLECTED ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES OF AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, reprinted as "The Essays of Augustine Birrell," LIFE AND LETTERS, July 1930. Commenting editorially on Mrs. Woolf's description of Augustine Birrell as a "born writer," the New York TIMES in August, 1930, described Mrs. Woolf as "one of the most subtle, original and modern of writers, herself a born writer." KIRKPATRICK & CLARKE C323.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 337
- Title
- Augustine Birrell," contained in THE YALE REVIEW A NATIONAL QUARTERLY
- Author
- WOOLF, Virginia
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good or better.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- SUMMER 1930
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Place of Publication
- New Haven
- Date Published
- 1930
- Keywords
- Association Woolf
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Offprint
- A copy of an article or reference material that once appeared in a larger publication.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...