8vo. Half-title. Original purple cloth, spine gilt-lettered (small portion of foot of spine slightly discolored, light spotting to fore-edge); original cream dust jacket printed in lime green and brown designed by Vanessa Bell (some minor spotting to foot of front panel and to flaps, spine slightly soiled, a few short tears). 

 

FIRST EDITION of Woolf’s most experimental work, generally considered to be her masterpiece.  The novel traces six narrators from childhood through adulthood. Woolf considers the individual consciousness of each character and the ways in which those consciousnesses intersect; the soliloquies spoken by each character explore the concepts of individuality, self, and community.  A seventh character is present, but readers never hear him speak in his own voice.  Kirkpatrick A16a.