Flush – Virginia Woolf
NF 1st print

For sale is a rare and exceptional first edition, second printing of Flush: A Biography by Virginia Woolf, with no dust jacket. First Edition stated, 1933 Harcourt Brace. First Printing with no subsequent printing.

The book is in Near Fine condition with spotless, cloth boards with a strong sheen, strong title gilt on a straight spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, lightly rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rounded corners. The interior of the book is also in Near Fine condition with the ghost of an erased price on the second free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The illustrated end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright, making this an excellent addition to any collection.

No dust jacket.

Woolf’s best-selling spoof biography of the poet Elizabeth Barrett-Browning’s lap dog, Flush, has until recently received relatively little serious critical attention. Flush: A Biography has been read as an allegory of class war, lesbian love, the plight of women writers, and much else besides. In the context of the recent rise in animal studies, this work is ripe for reappraisal.

Ships promptly in a corrugated mailer with the book wrapped in both craft paper and multiple layers of bubble wrap.