To the Lighthouse. London: Hogarth Press, 1927.
First edition.
Octavo. [320] pp. Original blue cloth boards, spine lettered in gilt. Dorthy Makepeace bookplate on the pastedown,with accompanying offsetting to the front free endpaper. In the original dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, with some browning to the spine and some professional repairs to joints, and minor restoration to rear cover (which is blank, as issued). A near fine copy, in an attractive jacket.
First edition. “All I have to urge in excuse is that printing is a hobby carried on in the basement of a London house; that as amateurs all instruction in the art was denied us; that we have picked up what we know for ourselves; and that we practice printing in the intervals of lives that are otherwise engaged. In spite of all this, I believe that you can already sell your copy for more than the guinea you gave, as the edition is largely over subscribed, so that though we have not satisfied your taste, we hope that we have not robbed your purse.†-Virginia Woolf to an unidentified correspondent, December 10, 1930.
To the Lighthouse is one of the most significant pieces of twentieth century literature and has had a major impact on every other woman writer since.
Kirkpatrick, A10a.
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3109
$
19,000