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First edition, first impression, in the rare dust jacket designed by the author's sister, Vanessa Bell. To the Lighthouse was "written at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision... It 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. With dust jacket, designed by Vanessa Bell. Housed in a black quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Discreet ownership inscription to front pastedown. A few bumps to extremities, contents lightly foxed, else clean; jacket unclipped, spine toned and faintly stained, top edge lightly chipped, faint traces of tape removal to verso: a very good copy in very good jacket. Connolly, The Modern Movement, 54; Kirkpatrick A10; Woolmer 154. Margaret Drabble, ed., The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 1987.