Woolf, VirginiaBiblio.com
WOOLF, VirginiaBiblio.com
GRANITE AND RAINBOW ESSAY BY VIRGINIA WOOLF
1958Best.-Nr. 419London: The Hogarth Press 1958. Octavo. Sky-blue cloth boards spine lettered in gilt. 240pp. 8 â… x 5 ½ in. All edges trimmed. Editorial note by Leonard Woolf. White dust jacket printed in black and sky-blue designed by Vanessa Bell with her initials and date in the design. Slight offsetting to endpapers edges dust-speckled else a near fine copy in an unmarked unclipped dust jacket with a lightly toned spine else about fine. Formerly in the collection of R. O. Blechman an American animator illustrator children's-book author graphic novelist and celebrated editorial cartoonist whose work has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art and other institutions. First edition first impression; published 16 June 1958 6000 copies printed at 8s. The essays include: "The Narrow Bridge of Art" "Hours in a Library" "Impassioned Prose" "Life and the Novelist" "On Rereading Meredith" "The Anatomy of Fiction" "Gothic Romance" "The Supernatural in Fiction" "Henry James's Ghost Stories" "A Terribly Sensitive Mind" "Women and Fiction" "An Essay in Criticism" "Phases of Fiction" "The New Biography" "A Talk about Memoirs" "Sir Walter Raleigh" "Sterne" "Eliza and Sterne" "Horace Walpole" "A Friend of Johnson" "Fanny Burney's Half-Sister" "Money and Love" "The Dream" "The Fleeting Portrait: 1. Waxworks at the Abbey; 2. The Royal Academy" "Poe's Helen" "Visits to Walt Whitman" and "Oliver Wendell Holmes." An absolute must for any serious Woolf reader's collection. KIRKPATRICK A34a. The Hogarth Press unknown
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