THE WAVES
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1931. First American Edition. Item #8306
First Printing, one of 10,000 copies. Octavo (19.25cm); blue-violet cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; purple topstain; dustjacket; [ii],[6],7-297,[5]pp. Hint of offsetting to endpapers, with a faint, tiny stain to lower edge of pp.7-15, else a clean, very Near Fine copy, with the topstain bright and unfaded. Dustjacket designed by Vanessa Bell is unclipped (priced $2.50), showing modest edgewear, subtle toning and dust-soil to spine and panels, with a few small nicks, tears, and attendant creases, and a few tiny stains; Very Good+.
Attractive copy Woolf's experimental novel (a "playpoem," in her own words), told in a series of six soliloquies spoken by the books' characters. Connolly 100; Kirkpatrick A16b.
Price: $1,250.00