A Marriage of True Minds. An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. First Printing

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London. Jonathan Cape Ltd/The Hogarth Press Ltd. 1977. First Edition. Assumed First Printing. No Edition Remarks. Hard Cover. Medium 8vo 9½" x 6  [24cm x 15cm] approx. 189 pp. Black boards with gilt titles and borders to the spine. Sharp corners. Minor softening at the spine ends. No other wear to the boards. Watermarked cream endpapers with former owner name to front free endpaper dated 1978. Frontispiece of the Woolfs and a further 150 black and white photographs in the text. Illustrated dust jacket with white and pale blue titles. Faint sunning to the spine panel but titles vivid. Minor shelf wear along the top rear edge and minor creasing at the spine ends. Jacket is unclipped at £5.95. Condition of book and jacket is near fine. An interesting biography that focuses on Virginia and Leonard Woolf as a couple. Detailed information about the Hogarth press as well as Leonard's meticulous record keeping. Virginia's writing is touched on, but not the focus here, which makes room for details you don't usually read. A greater picture of Leonard and the day-to-day aspects of the running of their household, their evolving friendships, and their life together.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

A Marriage of True Minds. An Intimate Portrait of Leonard and Virginia Woolf. First Printing

Verlag

London. Jonathan Cape Ltd/The Hogarth Press Ltd

Veröffentlichungsdatum

1977

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

0224014072

ISBN-13

9780224014076

Bindung

Hardcover

Ausgabe

1st Edition

Zustand

Near Fine

Zustand des Schutzumschlags

Near Fine

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