Orlando. A Biography
by Woolf, Virginia
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- Condition
- Original wrappers with illustration by Salter on upper cover, blurb and photograph of Woolf on the back wrapper. Some light wear
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About This Item
New York: Penguin Books, Inc, 1946. Second American edition and First Penguin Books edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Original wrappers with illustration by Salter on upper cover, blurb and photograph of Woolf on the back wrapper. Some light wear to wrappers, text browned, else a very good copy of this piece. Second American edition and First Penguin Books edition. 1 vols. 12mo. Woolf's piece on the evolution or development of Orlando, a young Elizabethan nobleman through some 300 years with him arriving at the present in the form of a woman poet. This modern, intelligent, female poet, representing the equal capabilities of the female and male intellects, was based upon Victoria Sackville-West. Kirkpatrick A11f
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- The Old Mill Bookshop (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 19716
- Title
- Orlando. A Biography
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- 1 vols. 12mo
- Book Condition
- Used - Original wrappers with illustration by Salter on upper cover, blurb and photograph of Woolf on the back wrapper. Some light wear
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second American edition and First Penguin Books edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books, Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1946
- Keywords
- British | Virginia Woolf
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