First Edition Virginia Woolf Night And Day (1919) 1st Printing UK Duckworth & Co

Duckworth and Company, London, 1919. First edition, first printing hardcover of Virginia Woolf's second novel Night And Day. Rebound with the original front and back covers. The spine is not original. The color to the front cover lettering is also retouched. 538 pages with 2 additional pages of publisher's advertisements. 2,000 copies of the first impression were printed, of which 1767 sold. Verified first printing using B.J. Kirkpatrick's A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf. "A comic novel of manners concerning five young people struggling with issues of love and work, engagement and marriage, in London in the early years of the twentieth-century as the Edwardian generation Woolf herself belonged to sought to escape the social and moral strictures of their parents' Victorian world. Night and Day is the most linear and 'plotted' of Woolf's novels." (Virginia Woolf A to Z by Mark Hussey)  Written in half hour spurts while lying in bed, Woolf says that she wrote her second novel with "ease