"Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street," in The Dial, Volume LXXV, No. 1
Greenwich, Connecticut: The Dial Publishing Company, 1923.
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. Item #140942962
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