The Captain's Death Bed and Other Essays
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1950. First American edition. Hardcover. Octavo. (viii) 248pp. Illustrated beige and red dust jacket, with red lettering on the covers and spine. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. This is a first American edition of Virginia Woolf's posthumous collection of essays. The book includes her writings on a such topics as Oliver Goldsmith, Ruskin, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Walter Raleigh, books and cinema. Dust jacket with minor sunning smudges. Corners lightly rubbed, with some light chipping at the tail of the spine. Binding with minor rubbing and bumping to extremities. Dj in very good-, binding in very good+, interior in near fine condition overall. vg- to near fine. Item #44049
Price: $75.00