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First edition, first impression. "Written at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision, [To the Lighthouse] is the sunniest of her books and shows the obsession with rendering the passage of time which dominated her later work" (Connolly). The novel "displays Woolf's technique of narrating through stream of consciousness and imagery at its most assured, rich, and suggestive" (Drabble, p. 990). Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, top edge yellow. A later letter, describing a holiday at the Canadian Rockies, loosely inserted. Cloth bright, spine ends bumped, faint mark to rear cover, free endpapers browned, small ink blotch to lower corner of rear free endpaper, occasional pencil annotations. A very good copy, presenting well. Connolly, The Modern Movement 54; Kirkpatrick A10; Woolmer 154. Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 1987.