"Augustine Birrell," contained in THE YALE REVIEW A NATIONAL QUARTERLY.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. SUMMER 1930. Octavo, pp. 754-761. Tear-sheets, side-stapled in their original blue printed wrappers. Offprint from THE YALE REVIEW, Summer 1930. Wrapper's lap-edges with small nicks, UK bookseller's pencil notations [original price list advice at £500 laid in] on p.xxix, bookplate of the noted Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press and related Bloomsbury items collector, William Beekman, affixed to verso of upper wrapper, else very good or better. First printing of this review of THE COLLECTED ESSAYS AND ADDRESSES OF AUGUSTINE BIRRELL, reprinted as "The Essays of Augustine Birrell," LIFE AND LETTERS, July 1930. Commenting editorially on Mrs. Woolf's description of Augustine Birrell as a "born writer," the New York TIMES in August, 1930, described Mrs. Woolf as "one of the most subtle, original and modern of writers, herself a born writer." Very good or better. Item #337
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