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WOOLF, Virginia. The Voyage Out. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915.
Price: US$769.96 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, (vi), 458, (4), 16 advertisement pp. Light foxing at the beginning and end, a couple of early pencilled inscriptions to fly leaf. Original gilt and black titled green cloth, rubbed, spine darkened. Kirkpatrick A1a.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Voyage Out.. Duckworth, London., 1915.
Price: US$834.12 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. pp 458, [6] adverts. 16-page publishers' catalogue at rear. Kirkpatrick A1a.Ownership inscription on front free endpaper. Sporadic foxing. Covers rubbed. Small ink splash to spine. Good. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out. Duckworth & Co., 1915.
Price: US$947.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 458, 1915. First edition. 12mo. sized. Original publisher's green cloth - gilt embossed to the spine and stamped in black to the front board. The rear board with original publisher's sunken blind stamp. A very good, essentially clean, tight copy. Slight rubbing to the front endpaper where an inscription has been removed with a slight associated partially closed split in the paper 6mm in length. Light or slight rubbing to the cloth peripheries in places. Scattered most slight spotting and finger soiling - a bit more notable in a relatively few places. Several light finger soil marks to the rear board. A very good, essentially clean, tight copy of this scarce first edition (just 2000 copies printed).
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Voyage Out.. Duckworth & Co., London, 1915.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: 458 [6] + 16 [ads] pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth. First edition. A few inoffensive spots to the first few leaves; cloth lightly soiled and worn.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
VIRGINIA WOOLF. The Voyage Out. London: Duckworth and Company., 1915.
Price: US$1026.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: London: Duckworth and Company. 1915. First Edition. 8vo. Finely bound in recent half green morocco. Duckworth and Co London 1915, 1915. First Edition. Author's first novel, "absolutely unafraid, with the courage that springs not from naiveté but from education, and it soars straight out of local questioning into intellectual day". Very scarce, only 2000 copies were published on March 26th 1915 and not published in America until 1920. With 6 pages of advertisements and pages 5 12 of a 16-page catalogue at the rear. As early as 1908 Virginia Woolf was seriously concentrating on her first novel, which she called Melymbrosia and would later become The Voyage Out. At least five more drafts were written until she handed over her typescript to Leonard Woolf who delivered it to her half-brother's (Gerald Duckworth) publishing house in March 1913. It was accepted but not published before 1915 and finally, under the National Registration Act, Leonard registered Virginia Woolf as "author." Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition titles in gilt to spine, minor wear. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition. Page edges good condition foxed and worn. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition. Paste downs very good condition. End papers very good condition. Title good condition worn and foxed. Pages good condition some wear, closed tears and foxing to the outside edges and margins. Binding very good condition. See photos Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 1915 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The . . . Voyage Out. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Date on title page. No additional date, edition or printing indicated. Six pages of advertisements and a sixteen page publisher's catalogue at rear of book. Very good plus, if not near fine hardback. No dust jacket. Minor fraying/wear to 1/4 inch of spine head and heel; and age-toning to leaves. Only minor, if not trivial additional signs of age/wear/previous use, primarily rubbing/wear to 1 inch of spine heel.
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia. The Voyage Out. Duckworth, London, 1915.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo, olive green cloth, lightly rubbed at corners and edges, & crushed at the top of the spine. 16-page catalogue at the end. London: Duckworth, 1915. First Edition. The author's first book. Preserved in a cloth clamshell case.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Voyage Out.. London Duckworth & Co, 1915.
Price: US$1512.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, Crown 8vo., one of 2000 copies printed, toned at extremities, the odd spot, else very clean, publisher's moss-green cloth boards, spine lettered in gold, upper cover ruled and lettered in black, a little shaken, slight shelf-lean, rubbed at extremities, one short split to top of spine, general dust-soiling, else good. As early as 1908 Virginia Woolf was seriously concentrating on her first novel, which she called Melymbrosia and would later become The Voyage Out. At least five more drafts were written until she handed over her typescript to Leonard Woolf who delivered it to her half-brother's (Gerald Duckworth) publishing house in March 1913. It was accepted but not published before 1915 and finally, under the National Registration Act, Leonard registered Virginia Woolf as "author." Kirkpatrick A1a.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
WOOLF, Virginia.. The Voyage Out.. London: Duckworth & Co., 1915, 1915.
Price: US$2887.35 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression, of Woolf's first novel, scarce review copy, with the publisher's ink stamp on the title page anticipating publication on 25 March 1915. Originally titled Melymbrosia, Woolf began working on the novel in 1907; the resulting work "was a literary debut that marked Virginia as a writer worth watching" (Licence). Kirkpatrick A1a. Amy Licence, Living in Squares, Loving in Triangles: The Lives and Loves of Viginia Woolf, 2015. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, front cover lettered in black and ruled in blind, publisher's device to rear cover in blind. With 26 pp. of publisher's advertisements at rear. A little rubbed, spine slightly faded, extremities lightly worn, a few spots of foxing to outer leaves, contents otherwise clean: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Woolf (Virginia). The Voyage Out.. Duckworth, 1915.
Price: US$3208.16 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. [viii], 458, [6] (adverts.), 16 (list), crown 8vo, original green cloth, the rules to upper board and publisher-device to lower board both blind-stamped, lettering in black to upper board in gilt to backstrip, the latter darkened with some rubbing along joints and tiny spots of wear at tips, slight lean to spine, edges a little toned and dusty, good. Her first novel, with a dual Bloomsbury Group association, being originally the copy of civil servant Saxon Sydney-Turner - one of that circle's founding members, having befriended Leonard Woolf, Thoby Stephen et al. at Cambridge; his ownership inscription is then converted into the ex dono inscription of Barbara Bagenal (née Hiles) - a friend of Carrington from the Slade who assisted the Woolfs with their early printing and forged various relationships within the group, the longest of which was with Sydney-Turner. Both are mentioned recurrently, generally in fond terms (though Saxon is often made a figure of fun), in Virginia's diary and letters. (Kirkpatrick A1a)
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out - the author's first novel. London Duckworth 1915, 1915.
Price: US$3528.98 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by Duckworth in 1915. One of 2000 copies. A very good (or better) book without inscriptions. With adverts to rear - small Times Book Club ticket to the rear pastedown. Some rubbing to the edges and spine and some to the corners. Small gap to the edge of the spine top. Some scratching and a little wear to the boards. A lovely copy of the author's first novel.
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out. Duckworth & Co, London, 1915.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. [iv], 458, [8 ads], 16 ads pp. The author's first book. Bound in what appears to be a publisher's trial binding: dark blue cloth triple ruled in blind on upper board, with spine lettered in gilt and decorated with floral device in blind; lacking the dust jacket. J. Kirkpatrick notes a similar apparition appearing almost three-quarters of a century ago in A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf, "a copy in red cloth, lettered in gold on the spine and on the upper cover, with the floral device and motto in blind on the lower cover, was advertised in Raphael King Ltd's catalogue No. 52 (1951) and is now in the Robert H. Taylor Collection, Princeton University Library. It is probably a trial binding." In contrast, the usual trade binding is green cloth with the spine lettered in gilt, and paneled title block in black to upper board. Very Good. Slight lean to binding, light edge wear to cloth. Spine ends bruised, blemish to spine and gilt dulled. Foxing to textblock edge, former owner name and date to front free endpaper, endsheets browned and pages toned, hinge at rear endsheet is lightly exposed at the ends. Woolf began writing her first novel in 1910 and completed several drafts before its publication in 1915. It was a difficult five years for Woolf in which she suffered from bouts of depression and a suicide attempt, but the final work contained seeds of what would later become her trademark: an innovative narrative style, a focus on feminine consciousness, sexuality and death. Very Good. Slight lean to binding, light edge wear to cloth. Spine ends bruised, blemish to spine and gilt dulled. Foxing to textblock edge, former owner name and date to front free endpaper, endsheets browned and pages toned, hinge at rear endsheet is lightly exposed at the ends. Woolf began writing her first novel in 1910 and completed several drafts before its publication in 1915. It was a difficult five years for Woolf in which she suffered from bouts of depression and a suicide attempt, but the final work contained seeds of what would later become her trademark: an innovative narrative style, a focus on feminine consciousness, sexuality and death.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. The Voyage Out. Duckworth, 1915.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. An attractive copy with slight rubbing to the panels. The book is in nice condition. The binding is tight with minor wear to the spine and edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION in collector's condition. We buy Virginia Woolf First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.