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  • CONCEIVED WITH MALICE. by [Barnes, Djuna, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Virginia and Leonard Woolf] DeSalvo, Louise.
    [Barnes, Djuna, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Virginia and Leonard Woolf] DeSalvo, Louise.
    CONCEIVED WITH MALICE.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Dutton, (1994.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and Djuna Barnes." DeSalvo examines biographical material that demonstrates how each of these authors exacted revenge through writing fiction: Barnes's play was a thinly disguised portrayal of the sexual assaults she suffered from her father and brothers; . Henry Miller wrote 'Crazy Cock' out of his obsessive relationship with his wife, June; Hermione in Lawrence's 'Women in Love', was based on Lady Ottoline Morrell and Leonard Woolf's novel 'The Wise Virgins' portrayed a thinly disguised Virginia as deranged and sexually inadequate. Photographs, extensive notes, sources, index. 437 pp. ISBN: 0-525938990.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder line.)

    Book ID: 46192
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  • CONCEIVED WITH MALICE. by [Barnes, Djuna, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Virginia and Leonard Woolf] DeSalvo, Louise.
    [Barnes, Djuna, D.H. Lawrence, Henry Miller, Virginia and Leonard Woolf] DeSalvo, Louise.
    CONCEIVED WITH MALICE.

    Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.

    New York: Plume - Penguin, (1995.). "Literature as Revenge in the Lives and Works of Virginia and Leonard Woolf, D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and Djuna Barnes." DeSalvo examines biographical material that demonstrates how each of these authors exacted revenge through writing fiction: Barnes's play was a thinly disguised portrayal of the sexual assaults she suffered from her father and brothers; . Henry Miller wrote 'Crazy Cock' out of his obsessive relationship with his wife, June; Hermione in Lawrence's 'Women in Love', was based on Lady Ottoline Morrell and Leonard Woolf's novel 'The Wise Virgins' portrayed a thinly disguised Virginia as deranged and sexually inadequate. Photographs, extensive notes, sources, index. 437 pp. ISBN: 0-452-273234.

    Condition: Very near fine.

    Book ID: 46583
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  • MRS. DALLOWAY. by Woolf, Virginia.
    Woolf, Virginia.
    MRS. DALLOWAY.

    Edition: First thus- a trade paperback.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1997.). Tie-in edition of this classic novel for the movie starring Vanessa Redgrave with a scene from the film on the front cover. 212 pp. ISBN: 0-15-6005557.

    Condition: Fine.

    Book ID: 48423
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  • THE SECOND COMMON READER. by Woolf, Virginia.
    Woolf, Virginia.
    THE SECOND COMMON READER.

    Edition: Paperback.

    New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, (1965, c 1932.). A collection of short pieces on books, authors - included Mary Wollstonecraft, Christina Rosetti, Dunne and George Gissing - and on reading. The final sentence is worth quoting - "I have sometimes dreamt,at least, that when the Day of Judgment dawns, . . . the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, ' Look these need no reward. . . They have loved reading.' " 245 pp.

    Condition: Very good - a tight straight copy, prev owner's name inside front cover, no creasing on spine, a bit of dampstaining at base of spine.

    Book ID: 88665
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  • NIGHT AND DAY: The Definitive Collected Edition. by Woolf, Virginia [1882-1941.]
    Woolf, Virginia [1882-1941.]
    NIGHT AND DAY: The Definitive Collected Edition.

    Edition: Limited edition.

    London: Hogarth Press, (1990) dj. Hardcover first edition - A handsome new edition of Woolf's second novel, with a new introduction by Angelica Garnett, a publisher's note on the publishing history and a list of variants between the first English and the first American editions. A preliminary page notes that this was one of a limited edition of 1000 copies but this copy is not numbered. xv, 492 pp. Ribbon bookmark bound in. ISBN: 0-701208775.

    Condition: Fine in a very near fine dust jacket (appears unread - lower corner clipped with new price on publisher's sticker)

    Book ID: 69013
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • VIRGINIA WOOLF'S LONDON. by [Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941] Brewster, Dorothy.
    [Woolf, Virginia, 1882-1941] Brewster, Dorothy.
    VIRGINIA WOOLF'S LONDON.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: New York University Press, (1959) dj. Hardcover first edition - The author goes through Woolf's novels, one by one, and describes the settings, the period, and Woolf's experience, from the beginning of the 20th century to 1941 and the Blitz. Bibliography, index. 120 pp

    Condition: Ex-library with the usual markings, but overall tight and clean in a very good dj. (spine label)

    Book ID: 85872
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  • Woolf, Virginia.[1882-1941.] edited by Mary Lyon.
    BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 32312
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  • Woolf, Virginia.[1882-1941.] edited by Mary Lyon.
    BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.

    Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 32313
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  • Woolf, Virginia.[1882-1941.] edited by Mary Lyon.
    BOOKS AND PORTRAITS: Some Further Selections from the Literary and Biographical Writings of Virginia Woolf.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978. dj. Hardcover first edition - Although best known as a novelist, the first published works of Woolf were literary essays or reviews and she continued to write these until her death. This book contains 48 essays never before collected, selected and with a preface by Mary Lyon. Many are on authors - including Jane Austen, Thoreau, Kipling, Emerson, Sheridan, Dostoevsky, Sassoon and Melville. Other subjects of her 'portraits' are Sarah Bernhardt, Lady Hester Stanhope and more. 221 pp. ISBN: 0-15-113478-2.

    Condition: Near fine in very good+ dust jacket (neat prev owner's name, price-clipped.)

    Book ID: 32398
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  • [Woolf, Virginia] de Salvo, Louise and Mitchell A. Leaska, editors.
    THE LETTERS OF VITA SACKVILLE-WEST TO VIRGINIA WOOLF.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: William H. Morrow, (1985) dj. Hardcover first edition - A collection of never-before-published letters which offer a candid, record of the love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf between 1922 to Woolf's suicide in 1941. Introduction by Mitchell A. Leaska. Index. 448 pp. ISBN: 0-688039634.

    Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket (light spotting to top stain)

    Book ID: 85972
    Keywords: Women Authors
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  • MELYMBROSIA. by Woolf, Virginia (edited by Louise de Salvo.)
    Woolf, Virginia (edited by Louise de Salvo.)
    MELYMBROSIA.

    Edition: First thus.

    San Francisco: Cleis Press, (2002.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Woolf's first novel, completed in 1912 when she was 30 years old, but only published three years later, in a much tamer version, as "The Voyage Out." This novel was reconstructed from the original manuscripts held by the New York Public Library by Louise deSalvo, who also wrote the introduction to this edition. xxvii, 350 pp. ISBN: 1573441481.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 48825
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  • Woolf, Virginia (foreword by Doris Lessing, edited by David Bradshaw.)
    CARLYLE'S HOUSE AND OTHER SKETCHES.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback original)

    London: Hesperus Press, 2003. First edition - The first publication of 7 short pieces by Woolf recently found in an early notebook among some personal papers. Promotional band on book.

    Condition: Fine in wrappers with French flaps.

    Book ID: 26760
    Keywords: new, Women Authors
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  • VIRGINIA WOOLF: A Writer's Life. by [Woolf, Virginia] Gordon, Lyndall.
    [Woolf, Virginia] Gordon, Lyndall.
    VIRGINIA WOOLF: A Writer's Life.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York & London: Norton, (1984.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A biography which examines Virginia Woolf's life through the prism of her writings. Illustrated with photographs. Index, biographical references. Notes. 341 pp. ISBN: 0-393-018911.

    Condition: Very good in a near fine dust jacket. (slight spine slant.)

    Book ID: 56883
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  • CONGENIAL SPIRITS: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf. by Woolf, Virginia; Joanne Trautmann Banks, editor.
    Woolf, Virginia; Joanne Trautmann Banks, editor.
    CONGENIAL SPIRITS: The Selected Letters of Virginia Woolf.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, (1989) dj. Hardcover first edition - Includes the best of the letters from the six previous volumes of Woolf's letters plus others never before published. Introduction by Banks who also provides footnotes and commentary to the letters, list of Virginia Woolf's works, family tree and index. xvii, 472 pp. ISBN: 0-151221006.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket.

    Book ID: 87578
    Keywords: Women Authors
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