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VIRGINIA WOOLF'S LONDON
by [Virginia Woolf]: BREWSTER, Dorothy
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- first
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New Haven, Connecticut, United States
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About This Item
London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd., 1959. Small octavo. Turquoise cloth, gilt spine. 120 pp. About fine, in a very good plus pictorial dust jacket with some rubbing to top of edges. Bookplate of the noted collector William Beekman to front pastedown.
"Many of the outstanding figures in English literature have been great lovers of London: Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century and Charles Lamb in the nineteenth century spring to mind. For the twentieth century perhaps Virginia Woolf will prove to be the leading example." - from the publisher.
"Many of the outstanding figures in English literature have been great lovers of London: Samuel Johnson in the eighteenth century and Charles Lamb in the nineteenth century spring to mind. For the twentieth century perhaps Virginia Woolf will prove to be the leading example." - from the publisher.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 594
- Title
- VIRGINIA WOOLF'S LONDON
- Author
- [Virginia Woolf]: BREWSTER, Dorothy
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- George Allen & Unwin Ltd.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- London, street, music, wandering, Flâneur
Terms of Sale
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- Edges
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- Jacket
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- Gilt
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- Rubbing
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- 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...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Cloth
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- Fine
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