The Common Reader. Second Series.

First edition. Demy 8vo. Pp. 270, [2 (blank)]. Jade-green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Published 13 October 1932 at 10s. 6d. 1/3,200 copies printed. A second impression of 1,515 copies followed in November 1932.

Lacking the scarce, Vanessa Bell designed dustwrapper. Boards lightly soiled, tanned textblock edges, scattered foxing to prelims., previous ownership inscription to flyleaf, else Fine.

Woolf's second collection of "unprofessional" critical essays with subjects ranging from Robinson Crusoe, De Quincey, Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Hardy, most reprinted from periodicals but some appearing here in print for the first time. Includes 'The Niece Of An Earl', 'Beau Brummell', 'Dr. Burney's Evening Party' and 'How Should One Read A Book'.

[Kirkpatrick and Clarke A18a; Woolmer 315]