Some Kind of River, 1st Ed

WOOLF, VIRGINIA.
The Waves
London: Hogarth Press, 1931 First Edition. Minor cloth wear; very good or slightly better in a very good dust jacket with some creases, chips and tears. Presentation copy; inscribed by the author in the month of publication, “Margaret Walton from Virginia Woolf. Oct. 1931.” Margaret (Peg) Walton was a young clerk-typist at the Hogarth Press. Bookseller Inventory #17964

Price: US$ 35,000.00

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1st Ed. There are currently 3 copies of some kind of river available from an abbreviated press run of 32. Japanese stab binding, black bookcloth hard cover with 4x6 color print and marbled inside covers, with text on archival, pale grey royal fiber paper. 81 pages. Edition limited to 50 32 numbered and signed copies. Original price $35 plus shipping. On sale for $15 including US shipping.

The book contains three long stories. Their protagonists are (click each for an excerpt):

• Asa, a female-to-male transsexual in the process of transitioning. In the beginning of the story, he has just returned to his ex-girlfriend Emily, who he inexplicably left two years ago. The story follows the re-development of their relationship and his transition.
• Gordon, who has lived with his mother in Walton, Nebraska until the age of 30, and then moves to Chicago when he's casually offered a job.
• Miriam, a middle-aged woman divorced two years ago, with teenaged twins and a mother dying of cancer who has recently moved in with her. Miriam, who never worked outside the home, now works as a ticket-taker in an aquarium.