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1947 The Moment and Other Essays
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Description
First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper
The first edition, first impression of this work.
With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.
This volume comprises twenty-nine previously unpublished essays from pioneering author Virginia Woolf, published here posthumously by her husband Leonard Woolf by their printing house, The Hogarth Press.
The essays explore various figures and themes, with commentaries on authors such as D. H. Lawrence, Lewis Carroll and Edmund Gosse, as well as notes on The Faery Queen, David Copperfield and more. Many of these were originally lectures that she gave.
Condition
In the original cloth binding, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, very smart, with minor shelf wear and a very minor instance of damp spotting running across the top borders of the front and rear boards. Dust wrapper is sunned, heaviest to the spine, which is chipped to the head and tail. With a few other small chips running along the wrap's edges and to the middle of the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with only minor offsetting to the endpapers.
Near Fine
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