Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 21 x 14 cm. Octavo. 318pp. Bound in red cloth. Spine is faded.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.48 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [Coustillas H2b] Small mark on rear board, bookplate on fep. Nice clean copy of first American edition
Seller: Idle Booksellers PBFA, Bradford, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ has chipping to the outer corners, spine ends, and upper part of spine edges. DJ is now in a mylar cover. Page margins are slightly browned.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.34 + shipping
Description: Or.cl. 318pp. Sl. foxing else a very good copy. 1st ed.
Seller: The Antique Bookshop & Curios (ANZAAB), Crows Nest, NSW, Australia
Price: US$42.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ex Libris sticker front pastedown (cat on book pile). Some shelfwear bumping to spine ends of binding, some light fading, otherwise binding is bright. Internally bright, with only light spotting to title page. Light brown cloth binding.
Seller: anglimm books, Truro, United Kingdom
Price: US$139.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth titled in gilt. First published in 1929- stated. Ex-libris of the Rev. Harry Escott, with sticker to ffep over his name. Inked "1st edition" to ffep, and inked "Gissing Collection" to front pastedown, and a few pencilled numbers to front pastedown. Slight darkening to eps; a few spots and a wrinkle in cloth to rear cover. Tight and square, text unmarked. The scarce DJ in mylar is sunned at spine and price clipped. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 318 pages
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: With an Introduction by Virginia Woolf. 318 pp. 8vo, publisher's maroon cloth in dust jacket. First US edition. Some light use at corners and extremities of spine; tight and sound in a jacket with numerous small chips, the largest of which, at the top of the backstrip, affects the lettering (1/4 - 3/4" deep); jacket lightly sunned and dust-soiled.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 318 pages, maroon cloth; dj chipped at head of spine, reinforced with old cellophane tape on the rear side of the jacket, short crease in front flap. Ex libris William Sanford Akin; with the inked name on the title-page and endpaper of Mary Childs Nemey "Gissing remains solitary, self-centred, apart. He is one of those sharp lights beyond whose edges all is vapour and phantom. . Gissing is one of the extremely rare novelists who believes in the power of mind, who makes his people think. " - Virginia Woolf.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.20 + shipping
Description: London: Jonathan Cape 1929. 8vo. Orig. full brown buckram. Spine gilt titled. In slightly chipped blue/grey dustjacket with orange coloured printing. Uncut. 318pp. 1st edition. A fine crisp copy with this obscure Virginia Woolf Introduction rare in its original dustjacket.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Price: US$222.96 + shipping
Description: First U.S. edition (from U.K. sheets). Octavo. 318 pages. 8-page Introduction by Virginia Woolf. Preface by A.C. Gissing. Spine a little bruised at head and tail. Very good indeed in very good dustwrapper nicked and creased at top edges and a little chipped at tail of spine.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition from English sheets. With Biographical and Critical Notes by A.C. Gissing. Introduction by Virginia Woolf. Owner's contemporary ink name and date on front flyleaf, front cover has tiny spot of wear at top edge, else a fine copy in near fine dust jacket with very light wear. Scarce in jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Description: First impression. Octavo. Brown linen-covered boards; dustjacket; 318pp. A touch of dust to upper edge of text block, but a Fine copy. In the original deep blue dustwrapper, printed in orange; all four corners clipped by publisher, with price intact at base of front flap (7s.6d. net). Gently faded on spine panel; mild wrinkling and two brief, closed tears to upper margins; Near Fine. A truly lovely copy. Woolf's introduction is substantial (16pp) and personal. There was a simultaneous (and seemingly more common) American issue, bound from the same sheets.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition from English sheets. With Biographical and Critical Notes by A.C. Gissing. Introduction by Virginia Woolf. Fine in spine-toned very near fine dust jacket. Scarce in jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$524.04 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Octavo. Brown cloth gilt lettered on spine in blue dust jacket with orange letters and decorations. Introduction by Virginia Woolf. Near fine copy with a little sun to edges with dust jacket that has been sunned at top edge and spine. Shallow chipping at head and heel of spine. Rare in the Cape 1st with the dust jacket.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$573.32 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 318 pages. 8-page Introduction by Virginia Woolf. Preface by A.C. Gissing.Two small and attractive nameplates on front pastedown (under the dustwrapper flap). Free endpapers partially and lightly tanned. Head and tail of spine slightly bumped. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper faded at the spine and slightly chipped and creased at the edges. Scarce.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$620.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this much sought after early Virginia Woolf introduction, published in the same year as, A Room Of One's Own. A near fine copy, light offsetting to the endpapers, in the publisher's original coffee brown cloth covered boards, gilt on the spine in a lovely indeed, price intact dustwrapper, (uncommon thus), showing very minor light chipping at the crown of the spine and an inconsequential crease on the top of the front panel. A lovely example. Kirkpatrick And Clarke B9. Collie p. 149. Spiers & Coustillas FF1.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this much sought after early Virginia Woolf introduction, published in the same year as, A Room Of One's Own. A near fine copy, light offsetting to the endpapers, in the publisher's original coffee maroon cloth covered boards, gilt on the spine in a price intact dust wrapper, (uncommon thus), showing sunning and minor chips to the ends of the rare spine. . A lovely example. Kirkpatrick And Clarke B9. Collie p. 149. Spiers & Coustillas FF1.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada