Product code: FIRST EDITION, Flush: A sold Biography, Virginia Woolf, First American Edition
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1933. VG/G. Stated First Edition. First printing with no additional printings listed. The book has a hint of lean, but solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock has previous owner's signature and 1934 date on first free endpaper. Frontispiece and two black and white illustrations. Decorated endpapers designed by Vanessa Bell. Age-toning to pages and endpapers. The dust jacket is Good. Price-clipped with chipping to spine ends, corners and upper back panel (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 185 pages. Virginia Woolf wrote “Flush,” a fictional biography of sold Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, after having been captivated by the dog's presence in the love letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Flush was “not an ordinary dog”, by Woolf's description, and he is certainly more extraordinary for his persistence in literary imagination.
New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1933. VG/G. Stated First Edition. First printing with no additional printings listed. The book has a hint of lean, but solid hinges and binding, good tips, and clean boards. The textblock has previous owner's signature and 1934 date on first free endpaper. Frontispiece and two black and white illustrations. Decorated endpapers designed by Vanessa Bell. Age-toning to pages and endpapers. The dust jacket is Good. Price-clipped with chipping to spine ends, corners and upper back panel (see photos). Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 185 pages. Virginia Woolf wrote “Flush,” a fictional biography of sold Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, after having been captivated by the dog's presence in the love letters of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Flush was “not an ordinary dog”, by Woolf's description, and he is certainly more extraordinary for his persistence in literary imagination.