The Death of the Moth and Other Essays.

WOOLF, Virginia.

$250.00

Item Number: 127033

London: The Hogarth Press, 1942.

First English edition of this collection of Woolf’s essays selected and published by her husband posthumously. Octavo, original cloth. Very good with remnants of the rare original dust jacket. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell.

At the time of her death in 1941, Virginia Woolf left behind her a large number of essays, sketches and short stories, some of which had been published in newspapers and some of which had never before appeared in print. The first collection of essays compiled and published by Woolf's widower, The Death of the Moth contains appearances of Street Haunting, Three Pictures, Old Mrs. Grey, and The Humane Art.