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[McMURTRY, Larry (1936-2021), his copy]. WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). To the Lighthouse. London: Leonard & Virginia Woolf for The Hogarth Press, 1927.
8vo. Original blue cloth, gilt-lettered spine (spine sunned, some chipping at head, rear cover top fore-corner bumped). (Some light spotting to half-title and title). Provenance: Larry McMurtry (his bookplate, which he designed, features the horseshoe-shaped brand his father and grandfather used on the McMurtry cattle; and his neat ownership signature which includes his first wife’s name, Jo Scott), from his personal library at his home in Archer City.
FIRST EDITION of Woolf’s masterpiece “written at the height of her luminous Impressionist vision” (Connolly 54) displaying her “technique of narrating through stream of consciousness and imagery at its most assured, rich, and suggestive” (Drabble 990). Kirkpatrick 10a.