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Woolf, Virginia. Waves. , 1931.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1931 First Edition Hardcover Very Good/No Dust Jacket Harcourt, Brace and Co, Pub, NY, 1931; 1st edition; very good condition; bound in hard cover cloth; mild fading to spine, else a fine copy; no dust jacket; Virginia Woolf; Modern First Editions
Seller: Transmutation Publishing, Corning, CA, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1931.
Price: US$63.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library copy w/ book plate inside cover, pocket inside back cover, etc. Blue grey covers with black & gold decorative borders. Gilt title on spine. Moderate wear to corners, edges and ends of spine. Binding very good. Some toning to pages due to age. Some pencil bracketing, underlines.
Seller: Burke's Books, Eugene, OR, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.
Price: US$84.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book has tiny ink stain to bottom corner of first 20 pages, very mild tanning to pages, book has mild crack to hinge at page 190, the beginnings of a crack to hinge at page 178, a faint, quarter-sized stain to back endpage, mild rubbing to top and bottom edges of spine,moderate tanning to spine, mild rubbing to cover, moderate tanning to edgeblock, mild cup ring stains to front cover, and mild rubbing to corners of cover.otherwise book is in good condition with clean pages. Photos available upon request.
Seller: Recycle Bookstore, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1931.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second printing, October 1931, stated (1e was earlier in 1931); bound in blue boards with very faded lettering on the spine; top page edges tinted red (also faded). The Vanessa Bell designed dust jacket is a new facsimile, an exact reproduction of the original except for "Facsimile Dust Jackets L.L.C." at the bottom of the front flap. A former owner name (the late James Wilson Rayen, an artist and Wellesley College professor) on the front endpaper, else unmarked; spine slant; front corners and spine ends bumped. Laid in is a 1977 handwritten letter to Rayen from Boston art gallery owner Eleanor Rigelhaupt. The dust jacket is Brodart protected.
Seller: Black Falcon Books, Wellesley, MA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. New York , Harcourt Brace and Company, 1931.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: NICE as pictured a Circa 1947 reprint Edition. Latest Title is Between the Acts . a very good condition hardcover in a very good condition dust jacket price clipped . A great dust jacket no flaws but age toned gently read clean, 297 pages
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace and Company - New York, 1931.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth on boards with gilt titling to spine, somewhat faded. Book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of major flaws or markings other than aforementioned mild fading to gilt of spine and the last 10 pages of the novel having been damaged in the lower corner. Still presents well and doesn't affect reading or shelf presentation. Stated as First Edition on copyright page, being the First American Edition of Woolf's most experimental, Joyce like novel. Top edge dyed dark red. At least Good+, perhaps in some eyes Very Good. No DJ.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Reprint circa late '40s in lovely Vanessa Bell jacket. Jacket lightly tanned on spine and around edges.
Seller: Possum Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
VIRGINIA WOOLF. THE WAVES. HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, NEW YORK, 1931.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER. INSCRIPTION INSIDE. PLEASE REVIEW PICTURES Considered by many to be Woolf's most experimental novel, The Waves contains a series of soliloquies spoken by the book's six primary characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis, each fiercely individual yet together forming a central, universal consciousness. Literary scholar Frank N. Magill ranked the novel one of the 200 best books of all time in his reference book, Masterpieces of World Literature and in a 2015 poll conducted by BBC, The Waves was voted the 16th greatest British novel ever written.
Seller: Shadetree Rare Books, Chatham, VA, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. THE WAVES. Harcourt Brace & Co (US), 1931.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1931 Harcourt Brace and Company (US) 1st edition stated 1st printing - no dust jacket - some staining to closed page edge - some sun face to spine - ding at back corners - otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean - an important work - enjoy
Seller: Twice Sold Tales, Ashfield, MA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt Brace & Company, New York, 1931.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Harcourt Brace & Co. New York. 1931. 297 pages. First edition; early printing. Book is tight and clean. Pages lay undisturbed in seemingly unread condition. Endpapers are bright and clean. Book has the following flaws: previous owner's name neatly written on FFEP. One gently pushed corner tip. Fading to cloth on backstrip and along top. A better than VG copy; with noted flaws.
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. The Waves. Harcourt Brace, 1931.
Price: US$199.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: G+ 1st US edition, Harcourt Brace 1931, in G dj w/toned spine and chipping
Seller: Penn and Ink Used and Rare Books, Vancouver, WA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1931.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In pictoiral jacket over blue cloth with gilt spine titling, 8vo, 297pp. Original illustrated dust jacket with designs by Vanessa Bell. (jacket with light rubbing to extremities; short tear/snag (1in) to upper jacket tip (old tape repair, light spotting and browning to jacket spine and extremities). Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
VIRGINIA WOOLF.. The Waves. A novel.. Harcourt, Brace & Co., New York, 1931.
Price: US$384.98 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition (first printing), issued two weeks after the original English edition. Crown 8vo. 297pp. Blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with an ornate gilt-stamped double border. Publisher's maroon top edge stain. Backstrip ends gently bruised, and with a sliver of light discolouration to the cloth there where the dust wrapper is defective. Some light partial toning to the free endpapers. A touch of light spotting to the half-title, title page and to three or four subsequent leaves, and also to several unprinted rear flyleaves, and to occasional margins. Former owner name inked to the head of the front free endpaper. A very good copy in good Vanessa Bell-designed dust wrapper, correctly priced at $2.50. The wrapper is quite toned at the spine panel, with some light dust soiling, a touch of chafing to the natural folds, and with several tiny areas of loss to the spine panel ends and corner tips, and a centimetre of further loss from the head of the front panel (none of this loss impacts any lettering). 10,000 copies of this first American edition were printed. Kirkpatrick A16b.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931.
Price: US$413.28 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1931. Hardback. First edition. Fine in good cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing some age and shelf wear, sunned to spine and top edges. Lightly toned, text is crisp, remains a good copy. First edition copy. . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Virginia Woolf. The Waves. Harcourt Brace & Co, 1931.
Price: US$499.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1931,First Edition of Woolf's most experimental novel.Harcourt, Brace and Co as Publisher. Green cloth boards with very worn gilt lettering on binding. rubbing on both ends of binding as well as turned up corners on front boards. Gilt lettering is very worn due to age. 297 pages in very good condition with minimal pencilled underling by prior owner. No dustjacket. Considered by many to be Woolf's most experimental novel, The Waves contains a series of soliloquies spoken by the book's six primary characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis, each fiercely individual yet together forming a central, universal consciousness. Literary scholar Frank N. Magill ranked the novel one of the 200 best books of all time in his reference book, Masterpieces of World Literature and in a 2015 poll conducted by BBC, The Waves was voted the 16th greatest British novel ever written.
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace and Company, E-369, 1931.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York. 1931. 297 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Vanessa Bell DJ is stained and worn . Bound in blue cloth boards with yellow titles. Boards are lightly rubbed and worn with some sunning present to the spine nick present to the front board. Bookstore label present to the rear board. Text is free of marks, binding tight and solid. One of Woolfs most experimental novels, The Waves presents six characters in monologue - from morning until night, from childhood into old age - against a background of the sea. The result is a glorious chorus of voices that exists not to remark on the passing of events but to celebrate the connection between its various individual parts. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 297 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace & Co., NY, 1931.
Price: US$528.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book has minor wear thus near fine. Dj has edgewear, modest soiling and price clipped. A nice copy.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1931.
Price: US$750.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good first edition. Binding tight. Pages clean. Slight spine lean. Slight bumping to ends of spine. Minor fading to spine. Very minor residue to front and back cover. Minor wear to edges of front and back cover. Slight age toning and scratches to textblock. Book plate to interior of front cover. Inscripition from previous owner to free front end paper. Fair dust jacket. Four areas of loss to spine. Some age toning to spine. Minor stains and wear to front cover. Two areas of loss to top of front cover. Minor chips, area of loss and crease to top of back cover. Areas of loss to ends of both folds. Clipped to edges of front and back flaps. Overall, a nice first edition by Virginia Woolf.
Seller: Sellers & Newel Second-Hand Books , Toronto, ON, Canada
WOOLF, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt Brace, New York, 1931.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: 297 pages. Short 8vo, original gilt-lettered blue cloth (boards a bit fingered & spine lightly and evenly faded; tiny spot on fore-edge), pink topstain, Vanessa Bell illustrated d.w. (two closed tears at rear fold). New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1931). First American edition. A very good(+) tight copy in a very good(+) dust wrapper.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1931.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First American edition. Fine in fine dust jacket with slightest of toning. A beautiful copy of a modern high spot, an ambitious fusing of poetry and prose which saw the culmination of her experiments with stream-of-consciousness technique. *Connolly 100*.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves.. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1931.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of Woolf's most experimental novel. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Vanessa Bell. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. Uncommon in the original dust jacket. Considered by many to be Woolf's most experimental novel, The Waves contains a series of soliloquies spoken by the book's six primary characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis, each fiercely individual yet together forming a central, universal consciousness. Literary scholar Frank N. Magill ranked the novel one of the 200 best books of all time in his reference book, Masterpieces of World Literature and in a 2015 poll conducted by BBC, The Waves was voted the 16th greatest British novel ever written.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. THE WAVES. Harcourt, Brace & Company, New York, 1931.
Price: US$3029.95 + shipping
Description: Near Fine in a Very Good+ clipped dust jacket. All 4 flap corners clipped, price remains. Light rubbing alogn spine edges. 1 inch open tear at top of rear gutter.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.