[WOOLF, Virginia, Charles MAURON ( translator ), et al .] Commerce. Cahiers trimestriels … hiver 1926.

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A PRE-PUBLICATION FRAGMENT OF TO THE LIGHTHOUSE [WOOLF, Virginia ( contributor ); Charles MAURON ( translator )]. COMMERCE. Paris: Librairie Henri Leclerc. 1926. Original brown card wrappers lettered in black front panel and spine, bookplate of William Beekman to inside of front cover; untrimmed pages; pp. 200 [2]; repaired tear to upper corner of front wrapper, creasing and minor chipping to spine; very light creasing to a handful of leaves; a very good copy. First limited edition, number 1020 of 2,500 copies on Alfa Paper from a total print-run of 2,900, 100 of which were printed on Hollande Van Gelder Paper, 300 on Pur Fil Lafuma paper; including the first published excerpt (in French) of Woolf's To the Lighthouse . “Time Passes”, the central section of Virginia Woolf's novel To the Lighthouse , was completed in draft at the end of May 1926. The author’s diary makes clear that it was a piece of writing that gave her more than usual trouble. Recording the passage of ten years between the two outer sections of the novel (set pre- and post-war), the central presence is the Ramsays' holiday house on the Isle of Skye (where the events of the outer sections takes place), now empty, with the objects inside the house as “minor characters”; all subjected to the passage and erosion effected by time. A version of the text in French – the author’s first publication in that language – was published in the Winter 1926 issue of Commerce , in a translation by Charles Mauron, friend of Rog

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