8vo. Half-title. Original blue cloth, spine gilt-lettered (slight toning or rubbing to extremities, otherwise bright); original cream dust jacket printed in black designed by Vanessa Bell (a few short tears with occasional losses or associated creases, a few with repairs, slight soiling, particularly to spine and rear panel, some light spotting to endleaves). 

 

FIRST EDITION of Woolf’s last novel, published after her death. Set in June 1939 at Pointz Hall, home of the Olivers, and a neighboring village, Between the Acts focuses on the preparations for a community pageant. Woolf decided to publish the novel days before her death, but hadn’t yet corrected the typescript; critics consider the work to be unfinished. Kirkpatrick A26a.