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Stock# 104111
Description
First edition in original dust jacket
London: Published By Leonard & Virginia Woolf At The Hogarth Press, 1927.
"... written at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision... It is the sunniest of her books and shows the obsession with rendering the passage of time which dominated her later work." (Connelly).
First edition of Woolf's modernist masterpiece To the Lighthouse. In a 23 November, 1926 diary entry Woolf wrote, "My present opinion is that [To the Lighthouse] is easily the best of my books," and later noted in a 23 January 1927 entry, "Well Leonard has read To the Lighthouse, & says it is much my best book, & it is a 'masterpiece'."
Condition Description
Octavo. Original publisher's blue cloth (rubbed, spine sunned and lettered in gilt). Original cream dust-jacket, printed in black and pale blue, designed by Vanessa Bell (minor restoration to wear at extremities and spine, minor soiling). Slight embrowning to endpapers, but text clean. Housed in custom quarter morocco blue clamshell case.
Pagiation: [i-ii, blank], [iii]-vii, [viii, blank], [ix, fly-title], [x, blank], 11-[320].
Pagiation: [i-ii, blank], [iii]-vii, [viii, blank], [ix, fly-title], [x, blank], 11-[320].
Reference
Connelly, The Modern Movement, 54; Kirkpatrick A10a; The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume Three 1925-1930, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1980.
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