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First edition, first impression, of the author's landmark modernist novel, dramatizing the life of a London housewife on a single June day in 1923, the year Woolf began writing the work. That October, she recorded her earliest plans for the novel in her diary: "I think the design is more remarkable than in any of my books... I am stuffed with ideas for it. I feel I can use up everything I've ever thought" (Diary, p. 272). Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Spine lightly sunned, cloth faintly marked with one small pale stain to rear cover, extremities lightly rubbed, edges and outer leaves slightly foxed, contents otherwise clean: a very good copy. Kirkpatrick A9a; Woolmer 82 (2,000 copies).

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.