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97 WOOLF, Virginia. To the Lighthouse. London: Hogarth Press, 1927 “The height of her luminous Impressionist vision” First edition, first impression, uncommon with the jacket in such nice condition. To the Lighthouse was “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” (Connolly); the novel “displays Woolf’s technique of narrating through stream
of consciousness and imagery at its most assured, rich, and suggestive” (Drabble, p. 990). Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine in gilt, top edge yellow. With dust jacket, designed by Vanessa Bell. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. National Portrait Gallery bookmark loosely inserted. Bookseller’s ticket to rear pastedown (Philip C. Duschnes). Ownership inscription to front free endpaper. A near-fine copy, cloth notably bright, just a hint of fading to spine, slight offsetting to endpapers, else contents clean, in a nice example of the dust jacket, spine mildly toned as usual, closed tear to head of rear panel, a few shallow chips and nicks to extremities, else notably bright and well-preserved. ¶ Kirkpatrick A10; Woolmer, Hogarth Press , 154; Connolly, T he Modern Movement 54. £25,000 [150307]
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