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To the Lighthouse

Eighth U.S. impression of Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse

Virginia WoolfAdeline Virginia Stephen, 1882–1941
Eighth U.S. Impression [1950]. Crown 8vo. Pp. 310, [2, blank]. Publisher's tan cloth, stamped in dark blue to spine and upper board; olive and white endpapers with publisher's monogram. 1/5,000 copies printed. Issued in March 1950 as Vol. 14 in the publisher's Harbrace Modern Classics series with Harcourt's code of [b.3.50] to verso of title page.
Spine somewhat darkened, crown and tail of backstrip frayed, corners gently pushed-in, hinges starting to title page, textblock edges tanned, else Very Good, lacking the original dustwrapper.
Author's fifth novel. No. 15 on the Modern Library's 1998 list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. Chosen by TIME magazine as one of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to the present. A mosaic of thoughts, contemplation and perception and a landmark of high modernism, loosely modelled on Woolf's own parents and her memories of their family holidays at St. Ives, Cornwall. On completing it, Woolf thought she had exorcised the ghosts of her illustrious progenitors, Leslie Stephen and Julia Prinsep Stephen, and described To the Lighthouse as 'easily the best of my books,' while her husband Leonard fancied it a "'masterpiece'...entirely new 'a psychological poem'". The book outsold all her previous novels, the royalties enabling the couple to splurge on a new car. Connolly, The Modern Movement #54: "[T]he sunniest of her books...written at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision."
[The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Vol. III: 1925–1930; Kirkpatrick A10e]
format
hardback
publisher
Harcourt Brace & Company
published in
New York
ISBN
not assigned
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding style
cloth
binding state
original binding
remark
missing jacket
condition
very good
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