The Waves

by Virginia Woolf

£1,200 · Offered by Adrian Harrington Rare Books

First edition

London: The Hogarth Press, 1931. Modern literature FIRST EDITION, first impression. Octavo 19 x 13cm , pp.325. Publisher's purple cloth with titles in gilt to spine, in the Vanessa Bell designed dust-jacket, priced at 7/6. Contemporary book review news clipping tucked in. No inscriptions, contents clean and fresh, some trivial spots of foxing to the edge of text block, spine and part of covers sunned, jacket with some discreet and well-executed

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