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First Edition of Virginia Woolf's most famous novel with scarce original dust jacket, nearly completely intact! Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf (sometimes misspelled as "Wolf") Hardcover First Edition - First Printing - Second State Jacket New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1925. Issue Points: Light orange boards , copyright 1925 with no indication of later printings or any other markings on the copyright page indicating a first printing. (Conforms to other listings of first editions I've seen online.) Clothed in a bright yellow and orange second state dust jacket with $2.50 cover price present on both flaps of the jacket. Second state or variant jacket with "Virginia Woolf" in large letters on the back with quotes praising her work, and the cover price horizontal on the flaps and advertisement for "To the Lighthouse" on the back flap (also priced at $2.50), probably issued in 1926/7. (I've seen a copy or two with a list of other publications on the back and the cover price…

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.