Signed first edition of Virginia Woolf book discovered by chance at a charity shop sells for £25,000

Sula Dunne-Prevatt, manager of Oxfam's Cotham Hill bookshop with copies of Virginia Woolf’s works - (Oxfam/PA Wire)

A signed first edition of Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, discovered in an Oxfam charity shop in Bristol, has fetched more than £25,000 at auction.

The rare volume, published by the Hogarth Press in 1931, was found to bear a unique inscription. On its front free endpaper, it was signed "Virginia Woolf Oct. 1931", coinciding precisely with the novel's original publication month.