The Waves : Virginia Woolf [ First American Edition ]
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A copy of the 1931 first American edition of the influential experimental novel The Waves written by Virginia Woolf
Woolf, Virginia. The Waves. Harcourt, Brace and Company. New York. 1931. First American Edition.
An original copy of the first American edition of Virginia Woolf ’s experimental novel, The Waves , published the same year as the original Hogarth Press edition. (The Hogarth Press was a private printing press co-founded by Virginia Woolf and her husband Leonard Woolf in 1917, established with the aim of publishing the works of their friends and associates, which went on to publish some of the most significant works of the modernist literature. In addition to publishing works by Virginia Woolf herself, the press also published works by T.S. Eliot, Katherine Mansfield, and E.M. Forster, among others.)
A poetic treatise on life, ennui and feminism in the form of soliloquies by its characters, The Waves is nearly an extended prose poem rather than a traditional novel and remains one of Woolf’s best loved works. Exploring the lives of six characters through their thoughts, memories, and experiences, The Waves is written in a fragmented, stream-of-consciousness style and uses the movement of the ocean as a metaphor for the flow of time and the human life.
8vo, 297pp, blue cloth boards. Small soiling to boards with some sunning to spine. Spine ends bumped. Text block toned. Pages clean. Lacks dust jacket. Very good.
If you liked this book, you may also enjoy this first American edition of The Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen or this first separately published English edition of Rimbaud’s A Season In Hell
