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 and enjoyment." This may be because she drew on her own life for much of the material.

As Woolf's trademark poetry-as-prose and psychological storytelling form was not yet fully matured, Night And Day was contemporaneously received with "praise for its meticulous and well-knit construction." She had yet to confound the critics of her time with her revolutionary style. (Virginia Woolf: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism 1915-1974 by Robin Majumdar)

Fair. Very tightly rebound with the original front and back covers. The spine is not original. The color to the front cover lettering is also retouched. Large brown stain to the early pages that shrinks and disappears by page 34. Two-inch tear to pages 65-68 near the binding. Pencil marking to the title page. A rebound copy using mostly original components and a different spine.