Monday or Tuesday

New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1921. First Printing. Hardcover. Fine-/Near Fine. First American Edition, one of 1,500 copies. Crown 8vo: [4],116pp. Publisher's sage-green quarter cloth over mottled light brown paper-covered boards, white paper spine label printed in black, fore- and bottom edges rough-cut; original buff typographic dust jacket printed in green. About Fine, fountain pen inscription to front end paper in elegant hand, top edge dust-soiled, abrasion to bottom margin pp. 12-13 (not affecting text); Near Fine jacket, spine panel darkened, with neat restorations (not involving lettering); professionally (and preemptively) strengthened on verso along folds; 1/16 inch short from top to bottom, but no evidence of trimming, so perhaps a production flaw. Kirkpatrick A5b. The only collection of short stories published during Woolf's lifetime. The eight stories ("A Haunted House", "A Society", "Monday or Tuesday", "An Unwritten Novel", "The String Quartet", "Blue and Green", "Kew Gardens" and "The Mark on the Wall") "varied in themes and narrative but clearly showed the nucleus and style of her new directions in writing. . . . [T]he short story proves for Woolf an ideal space of experimentation, in which she questions both traditional views on human perception and conventional forms of writing, thus opening the way to her radical transformation of the novel . . . " (Literary Encyclopedia) Note: With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable polypropylene sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed.