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[EAN: 9780151937653], Near Fine, [PU: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York], LITERATURE: LITERARY BIOGRAPHY & CRITICISM: ENGLAND: EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: WOOLF, VIRGINIA: BELL, QUEN… Más…

[EAN: 9780151937653], Near Fine, [PU: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York], LITERATURE: LITERARY BIOGRAPHY & CRITICISM: ENGLAND: EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: WOOLF, VIRGINIA: BELL, QUENTIN: VIRGINIA WOOLF: A, Jacket, CLASSIC: INDISPENSABLE: INTIMATE: COLLECTIBLE: NEAR FINE: FINE First Edition hardcover (Orig. 1972) with letter line at "B" showing early Second Printing: VERY GOOD mylar-protected jacket w/ slight edge & corner wear & notably showing $12.50 orig. pub. price at top-right inside-front flyleaf, FINE library-durable brown fabric-over-boards cover w/ EXCELLENT edges & corners & w/ titles handsomely gold-stamped on spine, IMMACULATE unblemished smooth-cut text-block exterior, IMPECCABLE & BEAUTIFUL bright-blue end-papers on laid-paper card-stock, virtually AS-NEW sewn binding w/ tight AS-NEW signatures & gold-crimson-checked banding at spine-caps, PRISITNE interior printed on EXCELLENT unblemished archival paper * 9.12" x 6.25" x 1.64", 1.10 kg, xx+314 (334) pp * ILLUSTRATIONS: Volume I pp 140 & 141 (18 gloss-laminated pp): 31 select b-w portraits &c. Volume II pp 144 & 145 (16 gloss-laminated pp): 27 select b-w portraits &c. * ABOUT THE BOOK: "Virgina Woolf was a Miss Stephen." So begins this SUPERB biography, the first truly full-scale treatment of the writer's life to be published. As a nephew of Virgina Woolf, Quentin Bell brings to his book the authority that family intimacy affords, but he does so w/o bias, evasion or sentimentality, & as an observer rather than as a participant. His intention is personal history, not literary criticism & he impressively achieves this. By the end of his narrative Virgina Woolf has assumed reality outside the elusive world of her art. She was one of four children, born into a gifted family whose ancestors included generations of writers. As a child, Virgina is remembered for her beauty--flame-cheeked & green-eyed--her terrible rages, & her precocious command of language. She was the family storyteller who could make everyone laugh, & it was decided early that her sister Vanessa would be a painter & Virgina a writer. Her first efforts at composition are seen in a letter written at the age of six to her godfather, James Russell Lowell. The account continues through her adolescence & the first serious breakdown to her awkward introduction into London society, the Bloomsbury years, & marriage to Leonard Woolf--"the wisest decision of her life." The author candidly discusses the question of her sexuality & her mental illness & their effect on her marriage & on her other close relationships. While the ordinary events of her life unfold, the great novels are taking shape, accompanied by the anguish of a creative genius that was closely allied to her madness, the terrors of publication & reviews, & periods of enjoyment in her growing fame. The book concludes simply & movingly, with her suicide n 1941. Many other well-known writers appear in these pages--among them, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw, Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes, E.M. Forster, Rupert Brooke, Katherine Mansfield, Harold Nicolson--but it is Virginia Woolf who holds the reader throughout, attracting w/ her intellect, wit, & beauty as she did those who were privileged to know her. * ABOUT THE AUTHOR: QUENTUN BELL was a painter, sculptor, potter, writer, art critic, & teacher. His other published works include "On Human Finery" (1947), "The Schools of Design" (1963), "Ruskin" (1963), "Victorian Artists" (1967), & "Bloomsbury" (1968). He was a lecturer in art education at King's College, Newcastle, & Professor of Fine Art at the University of Leeds & Oxford University. Mr. Bell once recalled: "Virginia Woolf was my aunt & as a child I illustrated & to some extant inspired some rather fanciful biographies of her friends & relations, hence the fact that I am mentioned in the preface of 'Orlando' as 'an old & valued collaborator in fiction'." * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this excellent book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or via USPS PRIORITY MAIL (for a nominal additional fee) & to all international destinations at our posted rates via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS INTERNATIONAL AIRMAIL., Books<

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New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0151937656 . A two-volume biography of the noted English modernist writer, bound together in a single volume. Vol. 1 describes the life of Virginia Stephen from 1882 to 1912 prior to her marriage to Leonard Woolf, with a section of black & white plates and family tree. Vol. 2 covers the years 1912-1941, with another section of photos and index to both volumes. Each part with appended further writings and chronologies. This work originally published in two separate volumes in the UK by the Hogarth Press. The author, Quentin Bell, was a nephew of Virginia Woolf. Includes author's typed letter, signed (TLS) to Dr. John Hale of Philadelphia, thanking him for his letter praising this work. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling, blue endpapers. Jacket features photographic portraits of Ms. Woolf to both front and back panels. --- A generally well-preserved copy, but with a different owner's inked signature to front free endpaper and foxing to textblock top edges. Interior tightly-bound and otherwise unmarked. Age-toned, unclipped dust jacket ($12.50) with a few small tears and chips but almost completely intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for any shipment other than by USPS Media Mail in the US.) ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xvii, 216, 314 pages; Signed by Author ., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972, 3<

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[EAN: 9780151937653], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York], Jacket, A two-volume biography of the noted English modernist writer, bound together in a single volume. Vol. 1 describes the life of Virginia Stephen from 1882 to 1912 prior to her marriage to Leonard Woolf, with a section of black & white plates and family tree. Vol. 2 covers the years 1912-1941, with another section of photos and index to both volumes. Each part with appended further writings and chronologies. This work originally published in two separate volumes in the UK by the Hogarth Press. The author, Quentin Bell, was a nephew of Virginia Woolf. Includes author's typed letter, signed (TLS) to Dr. John Hale of Philadelphia, thanking him for his letter praising this work. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling, blue endpapers. Jacket features photographic portraits of Ms. Woolf to both front and back panels. --- A generally well-preserved copy, but with a different owner's inked signature to front free endpaper and foxing to textblock top edges. Interior tightly-bound and otherwise unmarked. Age-toned, unclipped dust jacket ($12.50) with a few small tears and chips but almost completely intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector. (NOTE: Due to the weight of this item, extra shipping charges may be requested for any shipment other than by USPS Media Mail in the US.) ; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xvii, 216, 314 pages; Signed by Author, Books<

1972, ISBN: 9780151937653

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0151937656 . A two-volume biography of the noted English modernist writer, bound together in a sing… Más…

New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc.. Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1972. Hardcover. 0151937656 . A two-volume biography of the noted English modernist writer, bound together in a single volume. Vol. 1 describes the life of Virginia Stephen from 1882 to 1912 prior to her marriage to Leonard Woolf, with a section of black & white plates and family tree. Vol. 2 covers the years 1912-1941, with another section of photos and index to both volumes. Each part with appended further writings and chronologies. This work originally published in two separate volumes in the UK by the Hogarth Press. The author, Quentin Bell, was a nephew of Virginia Woolf. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket features photographic portraits of Ms. Woolf to both front and back panels. --- With prior owner's blacked-over info. to front free endpaper, foxing to textblock edges; else a tightly-bound, intact copy. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket with several open tears, chips and yellowing to front panel, remains mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xvii, 216, 314 pages ., Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., 1972, 2<

1972, ISBN: 0151937656

[EAN: 9780151937653], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York], Jacket, A two-volume biography of the noted English modernist writer, bound together in a … Más…

[EAN: 9780151937653], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., New York], Jacket, A two-volume biography of the noted English modernist writer, bound together in a single volume. Vol. 1 describes the life of Virginia Stephen from 1882 to 1912 prior to her marriage to Leonard Woolf, with a section of black & white plates and family tree. Vol. 2 covers the years 1912-1941, with another section of photos and index to both volumes. Each part with appended further writings and chronologies. This work originally published in two separate volumes in the UK by the Hogarth Press. The author, Quentin Bell, was a nephew of Virginia Woolf. --- In full brown cloth-covered boards with gilt-stamped spine titling. Jacket features photographic portraits of Ms. Woolf to both front and back panels. --- With prior owner's blacked-over info. to front free endpaper, foxing to textblock edges; else a tightly-bound, intact copy. Fair-only, unclipped dust jacket with several open tears, chips and yellowing to front panel, remains mostly intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; Octavo - 8 to 9 in. tall; xvii, 216, 314 pages, Books<