Woolf, Virginia, (1932) ‘The Second Common Reader’, US signed first edition

Virginia Woolf (1932) ‘The Second Common Reader‘, US first edition, first printing, published by Harcourt, Brace and Company. Signed by Virginia Woolf on the ffep as show. Signature, style and ink are consistent with how the author signed her books.

Condition: a near fine book in a very good dust jacket. Internally absolutely clean without any foxing, no scribles, no stamps, no bookplates. The front board shows slight wear as shown, otherwise beautiful all around. The dust jacket has slight rubbing and handling wear as shown.

Exceptionally scarce as a signed first edition. Virginia Woolf is of course best known for her fictional stream of consciousness stle novels such as ‘To the Lighthouse’, ‘Mrs Dalloway’ and ‘The Waves’. However, she was an accomplished writer all round and published four collections of her essays during her lifetime and seven more post-humously.