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52 Tavistock Square, London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1925. First edition, first impression. Near fine / Fine. Octavo. Bound in 3/4 red morocco and red cloth, back in six compartments, gilt lettered in the second and third, dated “1925” in sixth, five raised bands, top edge gilt, cream endpapers, portion of original front board and spine bound in at conclusion of text. Minor foxing to prelims, a near fine copy in a gorgeous binding by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.  First edition, first impression. Published 14 May 1925; c. 2000 copies printed and sold at  7s. 6d. “We find it in Woolf’s decision to turn Clarissa Dalloway, a minor character in her first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), into the main character of her story 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street’ (1923) — and then, after discovering that Clarissa clamored for more life, in her slow surrender to the novel. We find it stitched through her largest revision to the book: the creation of Septimus as…

Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf published on 14 May 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a fictional high-society woman in post–First World War England. It is one of Woolf's best-known novels.

Identification of 'Mrs Dalloway' first editions can be complex without a dust jacket. First editions published by Hogarth Press in 1925 would typically be bound in a yellow-green cloth, with titles in gilt on the spine. Presence of a dust jacket, especially the Vanessa Bell-designed jacket, greatly increases the rarity and value.