Items are usually dispatched within twenty-four to seventy-two hours. 22).Orders are processed and dispatched Monday to Friday. 'Similar to the Tauchnitz editions of British and American authors that were produced solely for the continental market and not resold in Britain, colonial editions were issued specifically for colonial distribution and were not to be circulated, sold, or imported into the British Isles or America' (Wilson, p.

This issue has 'colonial cloth' stamped on the front free endpaper and on the front panel of the dust jacket. Published the year before the outbreak of the Second World War, it addresses how women can influence and prevent the rise of militarism despite being excluded from education, professional employment, and the public sphere. 'Though we see the same world, we see it through different eyes' First edition, first impression, colonial issue, not noted by the bibliographers, of this book-length essay written as a companion piece to A Room of One's Own (1929). Nicola Wilson, The Book World: Selling and Distributing British Literature, 1900-1940, 2016. A very good copy indeed in near-fine, slightly spotted dust jacket, spine toned, couple of nicks and one short closed tear, a notably sharp example. Spine and cloth edges lightly toned, lower corners soiled, free endpapers browned, contents fresh. With 5 half-tone photographic illustrations.įront endpapers with engraved bookplate and red marker signature of one H. With dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Original yellow cloth, spine lettered in gilt. 'Her attack on war as a pastime of men in power has survived its ill-timed publication and has come to underpin the conviction that, far from withdrawing from politics, Virginia Woolf had a politics which looked beyond her age' (ODNB).

First edition, first impression, colonial issue, not noted by the bibliographers, of this book-length essay written as a companion piece to A Room of One's Own (1929).

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