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Greenwich, Connecticut: The Dial Publishing Company, 1923. First Edition. Near Fine. July 1923 issue of The Dial, featuring the earliest attempt at the novel Virginia Woolf would publish as Mrs. Dalloway in 1925. Found on page 20-27, the eight page-long short story entitled "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" is a first draft of the novel's opening sequence, one in which the London hostess Clarissa Dalloway sets out to buy gloves, rather than flowers, on the morning of her party. Octavo. Bound in publisher's original salmon wraps printed in black. i-xii, 104, xiii-xx. Near Fine with light edge wear and creasing along the bottom edge of the rear cover and a bump to the bottom corner. The first stirrings of what would become the author's best-known work.

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.