The Common Reader

Second impression (stating 'Second Edition' on the recto and verso of the title page). Demy 8vo. Pp. 305, [3 (blank)]. Publisher's pale grey cloth with cream paper label to spine printed in dark blue. 1/1,000 copies printed. Issued December 1st 1925 at 7s. 6d. Originally published 23rd April 1925.

Paper backstrip label tanned and minutely chipped, top edge dust-soiled, light off-setting to endpapers, moderate foxing to textblock edges and prelims., else Very Good.

Woolf's first collection of critical essays written for the "common reader" who is neither scholar nor critic, and reads books for personal enjoyment. "Some of these papers appeared originally in the Times Literary Supplement, the Athenaeum, the Nation and Athenaeum, the New Statesman, the London Mercury, the Dial (New York), and the New Republic (New York)." [From the preface.] Includes 'On Not Knowing Greek', 'Modern Fiction', 'Jane Austen' and 'Montaigne'.

[Kirkpatrick and Clarke A8a; Woolmer 81]