Mrs Dalloway's Party. A Short Story Sequence.

First edition. 8vo. 70pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, titled in gilt to spine. In pictorial dustwrapper (priced at £1.25 net to front flap). Edited, with an Introduction by Stella McNichol.

D/w backstrip lightly sunned, else Fine.

"The idea of party always excited her," Leonard Woolf said of his wife, Virginia. Her response to parties as heightened social occasions is, perhaps, best given full reign in her great novel Mrs. Dalloway (1925). Of the seven stories in this collection, "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" bears the closest resemblance to her masterwork and was intended to be the opening chapter of a new novel that she began thinking about after Jacob's Room (1922), to be called "At Home: or The Party". All written between 1922 and 1927 with two of them hitherto unprinted.

[Kirkpatrick A42a]