(1910-2001, American bibliophile and director of the Pierpont Morgan Library bookplate, his sale Sotheby’s, London, 6 November 2001, lot 85). Provenance: bookseller's ticket of Gotham Book Mart, New York Frederick Baldwin Adams Jr.
Publisher's dark gray cloth lettered in blue dust jacket (light toning and light wear at fold ends, unrestored) custom orange chemise and quarter morocco slipcase. This copy with the misprints uncorrected on pp.199, 236, 269, 400 and 483. Feeling that she was insufficiently experienced as yet to begin experimenting, she set herself the task of mastering the conventions before she went on to surpass them in later novels such as Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), The Waves (1931), and Between the Acts (1941)” (Raitt). “The reason for this was that Virginia Woolf, while writing her first novel, The Voyage Out (1915), had become conscious of a dissatisfaction with the traditional form of the novel. Night and Day is perhaps the most traditional novel that Woolf ever wrote. RBH/ABPC record just one other example in the dust jacket since 1975. London: Duckworth, 1919.įine copy of the first edition of Woolf’s second published novel, in the very rare dust jacket. No, I can't tell you."īut he persuaded her into a broken statement, beautiful to him, charged with extreme excitement as she spoke of the dark red fire, and the smoke twined round it, making him feel that he had stepped over the threshold into the faintly lit vastness of another mind, stirring with shapes, so large, so dim, unveiling themselves only in flashes, and moving away again into the darkness, engulfed by it.WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). The novel examines the relationships between love, marriage, happiness, and success. Set in Edwardian London, Night and Day contrasts the daily lives of two friends, Katharine Hilbery and Mary Datchet. "I shall say something ridiculous-something about flames-fires. Night and Day (1919) is a novel by Virginia Woolf. Woolf is widely considered to be one of the most significant. "No, I'm a person who can't tell things," she pleaded. Night and Day is Virginia Woolf’s second novel, and is more traditional in style than many of her later works. "Tell me from the beginning," he begged her. "But it was then I first knew I loved you!" she exclaimed. He capped her reproof with wonderment that a woman of her age could have stood in Kingsway looking at the traffic until she forgot. "But it was foolish to stand outside and look at the windows. She interrupted him gravely now and then. Am I to tell you how I see you? No, tell me-tell me from the beginning."īeginning with spasmodic words, he went on to speak more and more fluently, more and more passionately, feeling her leaning towards him, listening with wonder like a child, with gratitude like a woman. Always of you, but you take such strange shapes in my mind. “What are you thinking of, Katharine?" he asked suspiciously, noticing her tone of dreaminess and the inapt words.
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