London: The Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition. First edition, first impression, in the very scarce Vanessa Bell jacket. Original dark red cloth, titles to spine in gilt. Spine with light sunning and bumping at ends, otherwise a Very Good copy, in the very scarce jacket, chipped at head of spine panel with some loss to title, lightly stained to rear panel, slight chipping and short closed tears at extremities. Still a pleasing, unrestored example. Housed in a custom grey cloth box, black label.

Mrs. Dalloway is regarded by many as the author's masterpiece; certainly, it is one of her best-loved works. Only 2,000 copies of the first printing were produced, and the dust jacket is one of the finest Bell ever designed. "Woolf maintained that her generation had to break the mould of the novel in order to speak of the radically changed world around them [and] Mrs. Dalloway did break the mould...It established her as a powerful force in the British Modernist literary scene" (Miller).

Kirkpatrick A9a. Woolmer 82. Very Good (Item #3289)