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1921 First Edition
Hardcover
USD$3,000

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London: The Hogarth Press, 1921 First edition. One of 1000 copies. Illustrated woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Original brown cloth-backed white paper boards, black woodcut design by Bell to front board. Housed in a custom black cloth folding box with titles in gilt to spine. Near fine book with very light rubbing and foxing to paper boards, and small abrasion to front board. Overall, a fantastic copy. Kirkpatrick A5a. Woolmer 17. Monday or Tuesday is a collection of eight of Woolf's short stories. In addition to the title story "Monday or Tuesday," this volume contains "A Haunted House," "A Society," "The String Quartet," "Blue & Green," and three previously published stories. Monday or Tuesday marked an experimental departure from the realism that hallmarked Woolf's earlier texts Night and Day and The Voyage Out. Similarly, Vanessa Bell's striking black and white woodcut engravings that illustrate this volume are stylistically different from her usually…

About Monday or Tuesday

Monday or Tuesday, first published in 1921, is a collection of eight short stories by Virginia Woolf. It includes stories like 'A Haunted House,' 'A Society', and 'Blue & Green'. Woolf's experimental approach to narrative and imagery is evident throughout the collection.

Identifying the First Edition of Monday or Tuesday

Original copies published by Hogarth Press in 1921 have a blue cover with a woodcut by Vanessa Bell.