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To The Lighthouse
by Woolf, Virginia
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/fair
- Seller
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Avon, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace and Co, 1927. First American edition. Cloth. Very Good +/fair. First American edition. 8vo in dustwrapper. 310 pp. A family saga by the author of Mrs. Dalloway and Orlando. Perhaps the author's best known work. "I" on copyright page and publisher's insignia present on the title page. The first American edition in green cloth-covered boards stamped in blue. Generally clean and well-bound. A handsome very good copy of the book. The clipped dustwrapper comes from an early, but not first printing of the dustwrapper. This version has a description of the contents of the book on the front flap whilst the correct first printing dustwrapper has only book reviews on the front flap. The wrapper's condition is chipped and worn about the edges. It has a long diagonal tear near the base of the spine. Wrapper in only fair to good condition.
Synopsis
To the Lighthouse is a novel by Virginia Woolf. A landmark novel of high modernism, the text, centering on the Ramsay family and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920, skillfully manipulates temporality and psychological exploration. To the Lighthouse follows and extends the tradition of modernist novelists like Marcel Proust and James Joyce, where the plot is secondary to philosophical introspection, and the prose can be winding and hard to follow.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Derringer Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 34686
- Title
- To The Lighthouse
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace and Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1927
- Keywords
- Literature
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature / First Editions;
Terms of Sale
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- Fair
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- Cloth
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
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