April 12, 2024
JACOB'S ROOM by Virginia Woolf ~ 1922 ~ FIRST Edition 1st Printing ~Hogarth RARE
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JACOB'S ROOMbyVirginia WoolfFirst Edition, First ImpressionPublished in 1922 by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London. First edition, First impression of Woolf's first full-length novel to appear under her own imprint. One of just 1200 copies. Original ochre yellow cloth with paper title label. 290pp text + 14pp publisher's catalogue. Top edges cut; fore-edges uncut; lower edges rough trimmed. 8vo. Mustard cloth, title in black on paper label .CONDITION : A Very Good copy in original mustard (or orange, or yellow) cloth, with slight sunning to spine and minor wear at head and tail of spine. There is also slight yellowing to the endpaper and slight foxing to the few pages in the front and rear of the book, though the text is clean and unmarked and the binding is sound.I also have my books listed in AUCTION style ; Please ch ec k it out if you are interested.Synopsis :Considered Woolf's first original and distinguished work, Jacob's Room (1922) concerns a sensitive young man, Jacob Flanders, who finds himself unable to reconcile his love of classical culture with the chaotic reality of World War I. His story unfolds in a series of brief impressions and conversations, stream-of-consciousness narratives, internal monologues and conversations.Virginia Woolf's third novel, in which she presents Jacob Flanders' life story
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