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WOOLF , VIRGINIA. THE WAVES. LEONARD AND VIRGINIA WOOLF AT THE HOGARTH PRESS, LONDON, 1933.

Price: US$71.48 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Green Cloth Boards with gilt blocked titles to spine, 180 x 125 mm approx. 326 pp. 3rd Impression 1933 being a first printing of the Uniform edition published by Leonard & Virginia at the Hogarth Press. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition.Good / no d/j ( book - no notable shelf wear or soiling, previous owner book plate to front paste down, light offsetting to free end papers. No other notable defects).

Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom

WOOLF, Virginia. FLUSH A BIOGRAPHY. The Hogarth Press, London, 1933.

Price: US$214.00 + shipping

Description: Demy octavo. Cloth, gilt stamped spine. First edition, second impression. All copies of Flush designated as a "Large Paper Edition" are second impressions, according to the bibliographies. Frontis and plates. Four original drawings by Vanessa Bell, and six other illustrations. Usual tanning to cloth at edges and spine, otherwise a good plus copy in imperfect, soiled cream dust jacket that lacks most of the spine panel, with ghosts of past cellotape at the edge of what had been the spine panel. Woolf's brilliant biography of a dog; not just any dog, but the poet Mrs. Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Spaniel Flush. Flush not only played an active part in human life and inspired poetry, but was himself a dog estimated by all who knew him as a dog of worth and character well deserving celebration. "FLUSH is only by way of a joke. I was so tired after THE WAVES, that I lay in the garden and read the Browning letters, and the figure of their dog made me laugh so I couldn't resist making him a Life. I wanted to play a joke on Lytton [Strachey] -- it was to parody him. But then it grew too long, and I dont think its up to much now. But this is all very egotistical." -- WOOLF, Vol. V. p.161-2. WOOLMER 334. KIRKPATRICK A19a.

Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.

Woolf, Virginia. Flush. The Hogarth Press, E-350, 1933.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Hogarth Press, London, UK. 1933. 185 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has heavy shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (large pieces missing from the spine ends). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Flush: A Biography, an imaginative biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, is a cross-genre blend of fiction and nonfiction by Virginia Woolf published in 1933. Written after the completion of her emotionally draining The Waves, the work returned Woolf to the imaginative consideration of English history that she had begun in Orlando: A Biography, and to which she would return in Between the Acts. Commonly read as a modernist consideration of city life seen through the eyes of a dog, Flush serves as a harsh criticism of the supposedly unnatural ways of living in the city. The figure of Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the text is often read as an analogue for other female intellectuals, like Woolf herself, who suffered from illness, feigned or real, as a part of their status as female writers. Most insightful and experimental are Woolf’s emotional and philosophical views verbalized in Flush’s thoughts. As he spends more time with Barrett Browning, Flush becomes emotionally and spiritually connected to the poetess and both begin to understand each other despite their language barriers. For Flush smell is poetry, but for Barrett Browning, poetry is impossible without words. In Flush Woolf examines the barriers that exist between woman and animal created by language yet overcome through symbolic actions. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 185 pages

Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.

Woolf, Virginia. The Waves: Uniform Edition. Hogarth Press, London, 1933.

Price: US$324.89 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First printing of the New Edition in the Uniform Edition format. Duck green cloth with gilt lettering and complete dustwrapper faded as usual to the spine panel with slight wear with minor loss to the base. Differential toning and neat signature to the front free endpaper. An uncommonly nice copy.

Seller: Frances Wetherell, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Woolf, Virginia. Flush: A Biography. The Hogarth Press 1933, London, 1933.

Price: US$389.86 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. 163 pp. Recently bound in half dark brown morroco over marbled boards, with raised bands, gilt lettering and devices to spine. Frontis and illustrations throughout. Spotting to fore-edge and occasionally throughout. An unusual biography of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's cocker spaniel, Flush, blending the genres of and non-fiction. It's said to have been written as light relief after The Waves, Woolf's most experimental novel. 8vo. Illustrated

Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom

Virginia Woolf. The Waves. The Hogarth Press, London, 1933.

Price: US$428.85 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: An Advance Review Copy of the scarce Uniform Edition of Virginia Woolf's experimental novel, being the third impression of the first edition. The scarce first Uniform Edition of this work, in the very scarce publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.Described by Kirkpatrick as the third impression of the first edition; 'although works in the Uniform Edition are described as a 'New Edition' to the verso of the title page, they are in fact reprints of the first edition'. Kirkpatrick A16c.An ARC, with a slip from the publisher tipped in to the front free endpaper, detailing the price and date of publication.Arranged in a series of cryptic and ambiguous soliloquies, spanning the lives of the six central characters, this was Woolf's most experimental work.Readers can see some of Woolf's friends in the 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 Percival. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, exceptionally bright. Publisher's slip tipped in to front free endpaper. Sunning and light tide marks to dust wrapper back strip as is common with this work, with wraps vibrant. Internally, firmly bound. Light spotting to title page, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Near Fine

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Woolf, Virginia. FLUSH. A Biography. The Hogarth Press, London, 1933.

Price: US$550.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf, Virginia. FLUSH. A Biography. London: The Hogarth Press, 1933. First Edition. Large Paper Edition. With Four Original Drawings and Six Illustrations by Vanessa Bell. 8vo. 163 pp. A near fine or better copy in buff cloth, gilt titles to the spine, some toning in a scarce Vanessa Bell pictorial dustwrapper, (expertly restored), depicting Virginia Woolf's cocker spaniel 'Pinka' as Elizabeth Barrett Browning's beloved spaniel 'Flush'. 'Woolf began writing Flush in the summer of 1931, after completing The Waves. She continued to work on it as she began writing The Pargiters and she wrote in her Diary at the end of 1932 that she was using Flush to "cool" her mind after the effort of writing The Pargiters". Hussey, Mark. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A19a. Woolmer 334.

Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada

Sackville-West, Vita. Collected Poems.. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London, 1933.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Sackville-West's collected poems including "The Land" and "Sissinghurst" (which was dedicated to Virginia Woolf), as well as 28 new poems published here for the first time. Octavo, complete in one volume (Volume I was the only volume published). Signed by the author on the front free endpaper. From the library of Erica Jong. Jong remains best known for her 1973 novel Fear of Flying which became famously controversial for its portrayal of female sexuality and figured prominently in the development of second-wave feminism. Written in the first person and narrated by its protagonist, 29-year-old American poet Isadora Wing, Fear of Flying was written in the throes of the Sexual Revolution of the 1970s and encapsulated the movement’s redefinition of female sexuality. In interviews, Jong stated: “At the time I wrote Fear of Flying, there was not a book that said women are romantic, women are intellectual, women are sexualâ€"and brought all those things together… What [Isadora is] looking for is how to be a whole human being, a body and a mind, and that is what women were newly aware they needed in 1973.” The novel remains a feminist classic and has sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. In very good condition. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 2 June 1962), usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author and garden designer. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927. She won it a second time, becoming the only writer to do so, in 1933 with her Collected Poems.

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

Woolf, Virginia. Flush: A Biography.. The Hogarth Press, New York, 1933.

Price: US$2800.00 + shipping

Description: First edition of Woolf's fictional "stream of consciousness" tale by Flush, a dog, telling the story of his owner, Elizabeth Browning. Octavo, original cloth, patterned endpapers by Vanessa Bell, with four original drawings by Vanessa Bell and six other illustrations. Boldly signed by Virginia Woolf on the second free endpaper. Very good with laminate to the cloth in a very good supplied dust jacket. One of the most important modernist 20th century authors, British novelist Virginia Woolf became a pioneer in the use of stream of consciousness as a narrative device. Woolf became one of the central subjects of the 1970s movement of feminist criticism, and her works have since garnered much attention and widespread commentary for "inspiring feminism", an aspect of her writing that was unheralded earlier. Woolf's best known works include Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.