The Death of the Moth and Other Essays.

WOOLF, Virginia.

Item Number: 90398

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1942.

First American edition and advance review copy of this collection of Woolf’s essays selected and published by her husband posthumously. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. With the original advance review copy slip laid in dated September 17th 1942. 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.