WOOLF, Virginia (1882?1941). The Waves. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1931. 8vo. Original publisher?s gilt?lettered purple cloth (interior joint slightly cracked between pp. 208 and 209 near head, some gentle darkening to spine); original unclipped dust jacket by Vanessa Bell (some chipping at corners and near spine ends, some toning to spine panel). FIRST EDITION of Woolf?s most experimental work ?in which a group of ?early Bloomsburies? with qualities amalgamated from Keynes, Strachey, Vanessa Bell and Desmond McCarthy, etc., are halted in a series of close?ups at various stages of their lives while their thought?trains are recorded, till they end in a crescendo of highly artificial writing that surprisingly comes off? [Her] most ambitious novel? (Connolly). Connolly, The Modern Movement 70; Kirkpatrick A16a.