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The Common Reader [First &] Second Series.

First editions, first impressions of both volumes, Nelly Cecil's copies, the First Series with her ownership inscription, the Second Series a presentation copy, with the author's signed presentation inscription to the front free endpaper, "Nelly Cecil from Virginia Woolf". A fine association: Nelly, Lady Robert Cecil, was a central figure in Woolf's life from her childhood days, one of the circle of aristocratic young women to which the well-connected Violet Dickinson introduced her.

2 volumes, octavo. First Series: original cloth backed decorated paper boards; with the cream dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell supplied from another copy. Second Series: original green cloth, titles to spine gilt; with the Vanessa Bell dust jacket supplied from another copy. Custom dark blue quarter morocco solander boxes by The Chelsea Bindery. First Series: with a snag at the top of the spine but otherwise very good in the tanned and lightly spotted dust jacket missing a few tiny pieces at the tips. Second Series: pages a little browned, dent to the centre of the spine but a very decent copy in a somewhat tanned dust jacket. The front panel of the original dust jacket has been pasted onto the rear pastedown.

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