Waves by Woolf, First Edition (56 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. BASCOVER cover art design (illustrator). First Edition HARVEST; ABCDE pt line.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A Harvest Booki. 383pp. $2.45 cover price. Light general wear. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Condition: New. A title that begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166. 2008. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

Condition: New. A poetic novel that begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea and follows their lives as they grow up and experience friendship, love and grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival. Series: Vintage Classics Woolf Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 177 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184. . 2016. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . .

Condition: New. 2000. 1st Edition. paperback. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, this book follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. It presents rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters: their aspirations, their triumphs and regrets, and their awareness of unity and isolation. Editor(s): Flint, Kate. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214. . . . . .

Condition: New. 2019. 1st Edition. paperback. . . . . .

paperback. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Special order item direct from the distributor.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Complete unabridged. Penguin orange and cream livery. Firmly bound with some tanning to pages and marks to covers.

First edition thus. 8vo. [xlvi], 241 pp. Hardcover binding in unclipped dustwrapper, very good condition. (101743). Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Kate Flint.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. A much-loved copy of the first American edition. Spine faded, with fraying at head, tail and corners. Endpapers split at both hinges exposing webbing. Panel from the jacket affixed to front endpaper. Lyrics from Dylan Thomas on the flyleaf, apparently serving as a gift inscription. Slight spots of foxing to prelims. 297pp. 7.5 x 5.5".

Hardcover, missing Dust Jacket. First Edition. *First Edition, Later Printing* most likely 1947 printing. Green boards with sun fading to the spine. Title is legible but the gilt has largely rubbed away. Some loosening to be the binding on the front board.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 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.

Purple Cloth Hardback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1931. Second impression (issued in the same month as the first impression). 325pp. This novel by Virginia Woolf is considered to be her most experimental work. The book consists of soliloquies spoken by six characters Bernard, Susan, Rhoda, Neville, Jinny, and Louis. Also important is Percival, the seventh character, though readers never hear him speak in his own voice. The soliloquies 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. The book is bound in the original purple cloth covered boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition with just light wear to the edges. Spine faded and some uneven sunning to the boards. Light soiling to top and fore edges. Neat gift inscription to ffep, otherwise the contents are clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Yellowed with age but in excellent condition. Contemporary newspaper cutting quoting Hugh Walpole pasted onto back of front cover plus ex libris bookplate of Louise E Hill. Spine yellowed and usual shelfware and slight nicks and bumpts as expected. See photos.

Condition: Good. 2011. Hardcover. 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. . . .

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Facsimile Dustjacket. Vanessa Bell (illustrator). FIRST EDITION & FIRST PRINTING. 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. - Original re-inked purple boards with gilt/gold writing to the spine which has been written onto the spine. There is a crease to the middle of the spine cloth, fraying to the spine edges and the corners are bumped. 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 light occasional foxing. Pages are otherwise clean and tightly bound. On the inner front board, 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 below. It's a nice touch. 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 as a little bonus item. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good Plus. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Good+ purple hardcover. No jacket. 1931. One date/no additional printings. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste-down. Short nick to head of spine cap. Light soil to top text edge. Some fading and shadowing to covers. LIght scuffs/wear. Page faces all clean/unmarked. Binding solid. 325 pp. A SCARCE first printing of this Hogarth Press hardcover.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stated first edition. 12mo. 297 pp. Blue cloth with a faded spine and some staining to the front board. Jacket designed by Vanessa Bell has a little staining to the spine. Light restoration to the edges, near fine. One of Woolf's most highly regarded novels. Uncommon in this condition.

First edition, first impression. Recently bound in full mauve crushed morocco. Gilt titles, bands, decorations to spine, and borders. Externally lovely. Edges a touch spotted and discoloured. Renewed endpapers. Internally, some spotting most noticeable to prelims. A beautifully bound first edition of Woolf's experimental novel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First American Edition. Original blue cloth. Listed as No. 70 of Connoly's Modern Books. Very faint indentation on front cover, Very Good Plus, in Very Good Dust Jacket with a slight smudge on the front cover and small edge tears. Kirkpatrick A16B.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition of The Waves with unusually bright and unrestored dust jacket. Purple boards with a few tiny indentations in the spine corresponding to nicks in the dust jacket. Contents are clean with foxing to the first pages. The dust jacket is bright with mild foxing on folds. 8vo 325pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. No jacket. 2nd printing. Covers shelfworn. Spine cocked. Some foxing on first few pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Bound in blue cloth with faded gold lettering on the spine. Spine is faded a shade or two towards gray (from sunlight). Binding good and tight. Clean throughout. Undated Christmas inscription on front endpaper. No date on the title page. Copyright page dated 1931, stated first edition. 297 pages. Unfortunately, this copy does not have the famous and scarce DJ. Please email with questions or to request photos. If you see a photo beside this listing, please be aware that it's an ABE Stock Photo (whatever that is) and not a photo of this book (although sometimes they do get it right).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Albatross. Rome. 1949. 270 pages. First printing of The Albatross edition; printed in Rome as part of the Modern Continental Library series; volume 65. Book is tight and clean; binding and hinges are sound. 4 sharp corners. pages lay tight. Blue cloth shows only light soiling. backstrip slightly dulled. Blue topstain. Small stain to page edges on foredge. A nice tight copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. Second Printing. Very good in very good dust jacket, in fresh archival cover; jacket spine darkened, minor toning/soiling to jacket edges, subtle foxing to front endpapers else a tight square unmarked copy in unclipped dust jacket; presumed second printing with a $4.50 price on the dust jacket; jacket art identical to first printing however color scheme is different; photos on request ; 297 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition fresh dark colours and clear gilt on spine. Small stain on front-board. Two small dents on spine. Fresh inside small foxing but freah no writing.

1st Edition. 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.

Hardcover. First American Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 297 pages. In Good plus condition lacking the issued dust jacket. Bound in publishers blue cloth with faded gold lettering along the spine. Boards have age toning along the spine, minor fraying along the tail edges, and bending wear along the spine head/tail and fore corners. Textblock has a tear on page 55 and 59, minor soiling on pages 28, a sticker on the front pastedown page, a stain on the front pastedown page and end-page, rubbing wear along the rear pastedown page, and mild age toning along the edges. DL consignment. Shelved in Room C. 1394505. Special Collections.