Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
V.Sackville-West. The Dark Island. A Novel.. Hogarth Press, 1934.
Price: US$12.92 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-Library, usual stamps and markings. Hardback/Hardcover. LIBRARY REBIND. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
V.Sackville-West. The Dark Island. Hogarth Press, 1934.
Price: US$12.96 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1934. First Edition. 317 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Pages are mildly tanned and foxed, but text remains clear. Binding is firm. Noticeable marks to endpapers. Boards have heavy shelf-wear, with visible corner bumping and noticeable scuffing to edges. Spine is moderately tanned, with visible crushing and noticeable splitting to ends. Heavy marking overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Sackville-West, V.. THE DARK ISLAND. Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Description: 317 pages, clean and clear. Front paste-down endpaper has a map of the Island of Storn. Front free endpaper has previous owner's name plate with another name in ink above it. Back board slightly loose. Some yellowing on back endpapers. Green cloth cover with darker green titles on the spine. Wear on the corners and spine. VG.
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
West, V. Sackville. THE DARK ISLAND. The Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in green cloth with clear black titles to spine, this dated 1934 hardcover First Edition ios VG. 317pp with Map to fixed front endpaper, and Four Parts. Condition VG
Seller: Camilla's Bookshop, Eastbourne, SX, United Kingdom
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The Dark Island by V.Sackville-West, 1st Edition,1934, Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, Printed in Great Britain by R and R Clark Limited, Hardback,has fading and yellowing to covers and spine, All pages appear present, Pages are yellowing,
Seller: Codex Books, York, United Kingdom
V. Sackville - West. THE DARK ISLAND. The Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$33.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in original light blue cloth. Title in blue on spine. 317 pages. Edges are slightly dusty, otherwise a very good tight copy of the first edition.
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
SACKVILLE-WEST, V.. The Dark Island. The Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$37.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Green cloth with green lettering to the spine. Cloth a bit shelfworn at the outer extremities; outer page edges browned with a few light stains to the fore edges. Hinges are cracked but the binding is sound.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$38.43 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 317pp. Green cloth, lettered in green at the spine. Map printed to the front pastedown. The backstrip lightly faded, the free endpapers browned and the edges a little spotted. A very good copy. No dust wrapper. 10,590 copies were printed. Cross & Ravenscroft-Hulme A30 / Woolmer 351.
Seller: Clearwater Books, London, United Kingdom
SACKVILLE-WEST, V.. The Dark Island.. 1934, 1934.
Price: US$43.01 + shipping
Description: London: The Hogarth Press, 1934. Sm. 8vo. Orig. green cloth (dulled) with lettered title to spine. (318pp.). With map on front endpaper. 1st edition.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Sackville-West (V. [Vita]). The Dark Island.. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1934.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, a couple of very faint spots to fore-margin of prelims, pp. 317, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in a darker shade and a little faded, a touch of soiling and lightly rubbed to extremities, spots to edges, map to front pastedown (drawn by Ben Nicolson), endpapers browned, slightly nicked at head of front hinge and a touch open at gutter preceding half-title (but entirely secure), good. A novel set on the Breton island of Storn. (Woolmer 351)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Sackville-West, V.. The Dark Island. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$76.85 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pale green cloth covered boards rubbed along reading edges, spine browned, corners and spine ends bumped, small scuff mark to foot of rear board, spotting to closed edges, map of the Island of Storn to front pastedown, small ink inscription to fep, endpapers and initial papers browned and spotted, 317 pages clean, unmarked, pp secure in binding. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Sackville-West, V.. The dark island. Leonard & Virginia Woolf / The Hogarth Press - London, 1934.
Price: US$79.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Pale green cloth on boards with dark green titling on spine. Small book is tight, square, sharp-cornered and free of markings and flaws inside and out. Map of fictional Island of Storn on inside front cover drawn by Ben Nicolson. Now protected in archival quality mylar. First Edition as stated - no DJ.
Seller: Barberry Lane Booksellers, Bar Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
SACKVILLE-WEST, V.. The Dark Island. London: The Hogarth Press, 1934.
Price: US$108.87 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. 316 pp. Publisher's green cloth, darker green lettering to the spine, dust jacket. Some edge wear to the jacket with a few small losses, a mild abrasion to the upper panel, slight mottling to the cloth but generally a very good clean copy. Cross & Ravenscroft Hulme, A.53, (a).
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Sackville-West V.. The Dark Island. Leonard and Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition, D/J and endpapers drawn by Ben Nicolson. D/J discoloured, rubbed, chipped and torn down spine with tape to its inside to repair tears. Book slightly shaken with foxed closed edges, minor discolouration to edges of boards, small ink inscrip. to f-fep and half title page partially detached, else internally sound, pp clean and tidy, text bright. Size: 12mo 0.0
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Sackville-West, V.. The Dark Island. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Deep green titles on light green cloth. 317pp. Dust jacket has several large chips and a long (2 3/4") tear on top front spine corner. Owner's name written on ffep. Presentable within new clear Brodart sleeve. Size: Octavo
Seller: Browse Awhile Books, Tipp City, OH, U.S.A.
SACKVILLE-WEST, V.. The Dark Island. Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, light green cloth, (faded & with a small stain), d.w. (large edge-chips). London: Hogarth Press, 1934. First Edition.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
SACKVILLE-WEST, V.. The dark island. Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$216.65 + shipping
Description: End paper by Ben Nicolson Green cloth slightly faded on spine; end papers a little browned; very slight foxing on foreedge; dust jacket a little worn and chipped at edges, with tear at foot of front fold, & small brown stains on spine. Overall a very nice copy in similar dust jacket Used - Very Good. VG hardback in Good dustjacket
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
SACKVILLE-WEST, V.. The Dark Island. The Hogarth Press, London, 1934.
Price: US$224.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Bound in green cloth with darker green ink stamped title to spine, map to front pastedown, map and jacket by Ben Nicolson. This is the varient edition designated as 'Colonial Edition' in red ink to front panel and spine of dust jacket. Cloth of spine and extremities fading slightly, some dust soiling to top, light foxing to last quarter of outside edge. Dust jacket overall badly dust soiled, worn at head and heel of spine and corners with a few mm of paper loss at those points, 1 cm tear to top edge of rear panel, top edge of front panel near spine, 2 cm tear to bottom edge of front panel near spine a few smaller nicks and creases at edges.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
SACKVILLE-WEST, V.. The Dark Island.. The Hogarth Press, London., 1934.
Price: US$480.32 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. A 317 page novel. Endpaper map and dustwrapper lettering by Ben Nicolson.Top corner of front cover slightly bumped, otherwise fine in near-fine dustwrapper with a few small chips and nicks at the edges. A bright copy.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
V. Sackville - West. The dark island. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1934.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First Edition bound in light green cloth with spine lettered in dark green, map of Island of Storn on front pastedown, Very Fine as NEW condition; the dust jacket has a couple short closed tears [not taped, with no loss] and is protected in archival clear plastic cover. Very scarce in this condition
Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.