The Diary of Virginia Woolf : Volume 2

The Diary of Virginia Woolf : Volume 2The Diary of Virginia Woolf : Volume 2, Virginia Woolf. The Hogarth Press, 1978. First US edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Jacket in very good condition; some light wear along edges, and price clipped. Deep purple boards are clean. Some wear along edges and corner bumps. No markings inside. Very good books in near fine jacket.

Some chips to corners

Spine has small crack near front of text block

a psychological thriller about two men whose lives become entangled after one of them proposes they trade murders

Sense and Sensibility

and admired by Truman Capote and Alice B Toklas among many of her contemporaries (Jewish Women’s Archive)

her publisher insisted on putting two white women on the cover of the novel

unapologetic portrayal of male homosexuality during World War II that stands with Gore Vidal’s The City and the Pillar and Christopher Isherwood’s Berlin Stories as a monumental work in gay literature

Some foxing to first free end paper

Previous owner has repaired some tears to jacket with scotch tape

Some age toning to jacket

Play It As It Lays

John Lyons