Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
WOOLF, VIRGINIA. The Waves. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press 1931, 1931.
Price: US$100.31 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, LACKS D/W, octavo, blue cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine, 325pp, scruffy (3cm crack to front hinge, moderate scuffing & fraying to board extems, moderate soiling & fading to boards, heavy creasing & discolouration to spine, moderate tanning & foxing & soiling to page edges, heavy cracking to gutters, prev. owner's name in ink & prev. bookseller's ink stamp to ffep, sporadic light foxing to pages throughout)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Hogarth Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$108.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated second impression. Purple cloth. No jacket. 325 pp. Second impression of this classic novel using experimental narrative structure to explore the passage of time and memory. GOOD condition. Heavy fading to the spine, with some offsetting/fading along the hinges and upper front cover. Minor soiling, scuffing and edgewear. Owner's signature present. Minor foxing to the page edges.
Seller: Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves.. The Hogarth Press, 1931, (1st edition)., 1931.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 325pp. Cloth boards, scuffed, bumped and rubbed. Spine edge of rear cover and spine faded. Spine ends and hinges frayed, vertical crease. Page edges dusty and marked. Inner hinges split but still holding. Contents foxed and soiled, most noticeable to outer pages. Mark on rear paste down from removed book plate Ownership name on front free end paper. 19x13cms.
Seller: Jane & John Kinnaird, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Hogarth Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$216.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, with no statement of later printings. Purple cloth. No jacket. 325 pp. First edition of this classic novel using experimental narrative structure to explore the passage of time and memory. GOOD condition. Heavy fading to the spine, with moderate offsetting/fading along the hinges and extremities of the covers. Minor soiling, scuffing and edgewear. Small clipping from a bookseller catalog glued to the inside front cover.
Seller: Mare Booksellers ABAA, IOBA, Dover, NH, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. London; Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1931., 1931.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 324, [2]. Titlepage vignette designed by Vanessa Bell. Bound in deep purple publishers' cloth with gilt titles to spine. A good copy of an iconic book. Water damage to top edge of boards, with staining more visible internally on front paste-down and front free endpaper. Text block not affected. Spine sunned with small nicks and a little wear to spine tips. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, otherwise contents clean. First edition of Woolf's highly regarded and arguably most experimental novel. Woolf herself eschewed the categorisation of novel, instead describing the The Waves' form as a "playpoem".
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. First Edition Clamshell Case. Special Custom Slipcase designed with a raised "Wave" motif on the upper cover after Venessa Bell' s unique dustwrapper patterns. A very fine & unique copy in purple or brown Nuba for the Woolf collector. Available in Cloth as well.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
WOOLF, Virginia. The Waves. London: The Hogarth Press, 1931.
Price: US$288.19 + shipping
Description: First edition. 8vo. 325, (1) pp. Publisher's purple cloth, gilt lettered to the spine, early pencilled ownership The spine faded, also the adjacent edges of the boards albeit less so, occasional light wear, a little light foxing to the early leaves, else a decent copy. Kirkpatrick, A16.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second impression of the true first edition, published in October, 1931 (the same month as the first impression). ***Very good in the original dark-blue cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to the spine. The gilt is still nice and bright. The boards are slightly rubbed, marked and discoloured with age and handling, with a small splash mark on the front board near the spine. Head and tail of spine slightly creased. The spine is nice and clean, and most unusually, without the usual fading (please see scans). There is no splitting or tearing to the fragile cloth covering to the boards. There is a very light vertical reading crease to the spine. Internally the book is also very good, with no inscriptions, and with none of the usual offsetting or foxing. Pages clean. No creases or tears other than some light production creasing to some of the pages. printed on nice quality thick laid paper - unusually, the last eight-page sheet is printed on very thin paper (five printed pages and three blank). Spine tight. No dustwrapper. ***188mm x130mm. 325 pages. ***'"The Waves" is critically regarded as Virginia Woolf's most experimental work, consisting of ambiguous and cryptic soliloquies spoken mainly by six characters: Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny and Louis. Percival, a seventh character, appears in the soliloquies, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice. The dialogues that span the characters' lives are broken up by nine brief third-person interludes detailing a coastal scene at varying stages in a day from sunrise to sunset. As the six characters or "voices" speak, Woolf explores concepts of individuality, self and community. “Each character is distinct, yet together they compose a gestalt about a silent central consciousness”, according to a reviewer. In a 2015 poll conducted by the BBC, "The Waves" was voted the 16th greatest British novel ever written. The difficulty of assigning genre to this novel is complicated by the fact that "The Waves" blurs distinctions between prose and poetry, allowing the novel to flow between six not dissimilar interior monologues. The book similarly breaks down boundaries between people, and Woolf herself wrote in her Diary that the six were not meant to be separate "characters" at all, but rather facets of consciousness illuminating a sense of continuity. Even the term "novel" may not accurately describe the complex form of The Waves as is described in the literary biography of Woolf by Julia Briggs (An Inner Life, Allen Lane 2005). Woolf called it not a novel but a "playpoem". The book explores the role of the "ethos of male education" in shaping public life, and includes scenes of some of the characters experiencing bullying during their first days at school.' (Wiki) ***A second impression of the true first edition of "The Waves" - the modernist classic by Virginia Woolf. A very good copy in the original cloth, and with no fading to the colour on the spine, which is exceedingly uncommon. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. A Room of One's Own. The Hogarth Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$377.85 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first Uniform Edition of Virginia Woolf's critical treatise on the economic and social position of women in early twentieth century English society. The first edition thus, being the first impression issued as the 'Uniform Edition'. Kirkpatrick's bibliography notes that impressions six to twelve were issued as the Uniform Edition, with this effectively being the sixth impression of the first edition. Kirkpatrick A12b.In the scarce publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.First published in September 1929, A Room of One's Own is a reworking of two lectures delivered by Woolf at Cambridge University, expressing the essential point that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'.Contemporary inscription to rear free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of fading to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally fine. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with minor loss to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Woolf (Virginia). The Waves.. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1931.
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, a couple of marginal marks in pencil, these corresponding to page references noted in pencil to rear free endpaper, pp. 325, crown 8vo, original purple cloth, the backstrip lettered in gilt and faded with some wear at ends and a mark at foot, wear to lower joint also, lean to spine, rubbed to edges, the flyleaf with contemporary ownership inscription of Barbara Bagenal (but in the hand of Saxon Sydney-Turner, and her pencil ex dono inscription, 'from S.S-T.' below), Gerald Bullett's contemporary review laid in, fair. A notable association copy, given by Saxon Sydney-Turner - a friend of Leonard Woolf's from Cambridge and one of the founding members of what became known as the Bloomsbury Group - to his partner Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles); both of them were friends of the author - Hiles having helped the Woolfs with printing Mansfield's 'Prelude' before her marriage to Nicholas Bagenal (a development that perhaps modified but did not curtail her relationship with Sydney-Turner). The ownership inscription is identifiably in the hand of the giver rather than the recipient. (Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$672.45 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A beautiful facsimile dust-jacket accompanies this book. Produced from a first impression [1931] issue. It has the price of 8s. 6d. net to the spine as well as stating: This dustjacket is designed by:VANESSA BELL - [Virginia Woolf's Sister] - Housed in a durable plastic sleeve for future protection. - Blue cloth rebind with gilt/gold writing to the spine which has been written onto the spine. The boards are clean and remain firmly attached to page block. All housed beneath the accompanying dustjacket. The pages have age-related browning, soiling and heavy foxing throughout. Pages are otherwise clean and tightly bound. On the first blank endpage, there is a small image of Virginia Woolf, when she was about 20 years old. She certainly was a beauty of her time. There is also a photocopied image of her famous purple signature. At the very end of the book is a photocopy of an old newspaper article headed: "I CANNOT GO ON" - WOMAN WRITER'S SUICIDE - At the inquest at Newhaven, Sussex, to-day, on Mrs. Virginia Woolf, whose body was recovered from the River Ouse near her home at Rodwell last night, a verdict of suicide while the balance of her mind was disturbed was returned. - Then, follows a lot more information about Virginia Woolf and her life etc. - It's very sad. - Also have Virginia Woolf's Last will written in 1930 [2 pages] which I will include with the sale. It was only when I got a copy of this will that I saw that her first Christian name was Adeline. {Adeline Virginia Woolf} - E N D - Our orders are shipped within 1 or 2 business days. - Thanks for your interest and I hope you like the book enough to buy it.
Seller: Modern_First_Printings, EAST SUSSEX, United Kingdom
Price: US$720.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: In fair condition. The dust-jacket has much tape and one of the flaps has almost fallen off due to wear. Its still very scarce with the dust-jacket which is the exact same as the first impression. The book has what appears to be sun-damage up high and low. Very scarce first edition of maybe Woolfs greatest work.
Seller: Great and rare books, Uppsala, UPPLA, Sweden
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Waves.. The Hogarth Press, London., 1931.
Price: US$832.56 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. A 325-page novel.On the front pastedown is the attractive bookplate of noted book collector A. Bethune Morgan. Spotting to edges. Patch of fading at each end of the spine. Very good indeed in the remains of the dustwrapper which is now in three pieces: front panel and flap, the top edge being defective with the loss of some of the title; rear panel and flap, largely intact; spine panel, half of which is missing.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. The Hogarth Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. First Edition. Light foxing to edges of textblock, some sunned areas to boards, else very good in a jacket that is internally tape reinforced at the front joint with loss to the bottom quarter and and a large chip at the head. Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279.
Seller: Kenneth Mallory Bookseller ABAA, Decatur, GA, U.S.A.
WOOLF Virginia. The Waves. IN FULL MOROCCO. Hogarth Press,, 1931.
Price: US$1178.39 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; handsomely bound in twentieth century full dark blue crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, back with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt top, hand-made endpapers, ribbon marker, an elegant copy in custom-made marbled board slip case. Enticing copy of Woolf's seventh novel. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION. Connolly 100; Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Woolf (Virginia). The Waves.. Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1931.
Price: US$1216.82 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 325, crown 8vo, original purple cloth, backstrip gilt lettered, some slivers of fading to cloth, light spotting to edges, dustjacket with a Vanessa Bell design, a small section missing at foot of front panel (removing 'The Hogar' from the publisher's name at foot), some internal paper reinforcement, chipping to corners and at head of backstrip panel, this a little browned with some faint spotting elsewhere and a couple of waterspots to front panel, good. (Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Waves.. London Hogarth Press, 1931.
Price: US$1815.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing; 8vo (192 x 132 mm); some very light spotting to preliminary and terminal leaves, otherwise internally very good: publisher's purple cloth gilt, head and foot of spine dust-soiled, original dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, spine toned and chipped with some loss to extremities (touching top of title), panels lightly dust-soiled, otherwise a good, unsophisticated example. An attractive first edition of Virginia Woolf's seventh and most experimental novel, a polyphonic work featuring six characters plus another present only in absentia, all perceived by many to be drawn to a varying degree from people the author knew, including E.M. Forster, T.S. Eliot, Vanessa Bell and Lytton Strachey. The dust-jacket is designed by the author's sister Vanessa Bell, very much in keeping stylistically with her other work for Leonard & Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press publications., Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Waves.. London: The Hogarth Press, 1931, 1931.
Price: US$2561.73 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of the author's most ambitious and experimental novel, hailed by Cyril Connolly as her "masterpiece. It is one of the books which comes nearest to stating the mystery of life and so, in a sense, nearest to solving it" (p. 49). The text is woven from the interior voices of its six protagonists, who were in part modelled on E. M. Forster, Lytton Strachey, T. S. Eliot, Mary Hutchison, Vanessa Bell, and Woolf herself, revealing their respective loves and loneliness. Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279. Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise, 2008. Octavo. Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, titles and decoration to spine gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, burgundy coated endpapers, all edges gilt. A fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
WOOLF Virginia. The Waves. BRIGHT, CLEAN COPY IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPER. Hogarth Press,, 1931.
Price: US$2741.05 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper; original purple cloth, gilt back, a very good, bright, clean copy in unclipped, lightly browned dustwrapper, the latter with long tear at lower joint and chipped with minor loss (not affecting lettering) at head and tail. Woolf's seventh novel, with dustwrapper designed by Vanessa Bell. SCARCE IN ANYTHING LIKE THIS CONDITION. Connolly 100; Kirkpatrick A16a; Woolmer 279.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Waves.. The Hogarth Press, London., 1931.
Price: US$2881.94 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. A 325-page novel.Small contemporary (1933) ownership signature on front pastedown (under the dustwrapper flap). Small fold to top corner of front free endpaper. A bit of fading to head and tail of spine. Edges very faintly spotted. Small bump to bottom corner of rear cover. Very good indeed in very good indeed, faintly spotted, slightly nicked dustwrapper, designed by Vanessa Bell, with a fingernail-sized chip at head of spine. A bright copy.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
VIRGINIA WOOLF. THE WAVES. hogarth press, Tavistock place London, 1931.
Price: US$3599.60 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A very fine copy with its original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell ( Woolf`s sister) Dj has a tiny loss to the outer corners and to the head and base of spine hardly noticeable in its see through removable protector.Book is bound in Purple cloth, a small mount of foxing to eps and the title page as is often the case. A fine copy indeed.
Seller: VANESSA PARKER RARE BOOKS, Westport, MAYO, Ireland
Virginia Woolf. The Waves. The Hogarth Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$3714.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A nice first edition copy of this experimental novel by Virginia Woolf, one of her most puzzling publications, here in the original beautifully designed dust wrapper by Vanessa Bell. The first edition, first impression of this work.In the original Vanessa Bell designed unclipped dust wrapper.One of the experimental novels of Virginia Woolf, following six narrators from childhood to adulthood through a series of soliloquies, ruminating on the concepts of individuality, self, and community.Readers can see some of Woolf's friends in her characters in this novel; in particular E. M. Forster in the writer Bernard, T. S. Eliot in the outsider Louis, Lytton Strachey in Neville, Mary Hutchinson in the socialite Jinny, Vanessa Bell, in the fleeing Susan, and Thoby Stephen in the flawed and never narrator Percival.Written by the Bloomsbury author Virginia Woolf, a central figure of the literary group, herself known for her experimental writings and affair with fellow author Vita Sackville-West.Published by the Hogarth Press, the Bloomsbury publishing house founded ran by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The press was founded in the interwar period, as printing became a hobby for the couple, diverting Virginia when her writing became too stressful. Both Woolfs' taught themselves to use a printing press, publishing 527 titles from the period of 1917 to 1946. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, smart. Spine and extremities are a little discoloured. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn with some chips and closed tears, mostly to the head and tail of the spine. Light discoloration and a few minor marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia. The Waves. hogarth, London, 1931.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 8vo, purple cloth, d.w. (spine very slightly sunned with minor edge-chips). London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. First Edition. A superior copy of this important book. The purple cloth is entirely unfaded, and the Vanessa Bell dust wrapper is price-intact. There is some foxing on the edges, but the title page & endpapers which are often foxed, are clean.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Hogarth Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A beautiful copy. This First Issue dustjacket is vibrant in color with minor wear to the panels. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp with minor wear. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a wonderful copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION with the ORIGINAL dustjacket. We buy Virginia Woolf First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. THE WAVES. Signed. Hogarth Press, London, 1931.
Price: US$7775.00 + shipping
Description: Vanessa Bell. First Edition, Second Impression. Signed by author. Woolf, Virginia. THE WAVES. Signed By Virginia Woolf. London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. First Edition, second printing published only weeks after the first edition, neatly Signed by Virginia Woolf on the half-title page. 8vo. 325 pp. Deep purple cloth, fade to the spine, gilt titles, tiny erasure mark to the top of the front free endpaper and inside front lower hinge small ungluing at crease. Lacking the dustwrapper. "On February 7, 1931 Woolf recorded the end of The Waves and described how she had "reeled across the last ten pages often seeming only to stumble after her own voice, or almost, after some sort of speaker (as when I was mad)". Hussey, Mark. Kirkpatrick And Clarke A16a. Woolmer 279. "Her most experimental novel." Connolly 100, The Modern Movement #70. Custom embossed TBCL Clamshell Case in fine condition.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada