This fits with the period in which the book seems to be set, the early decades of the twentieth century there are horses and carriages but also motor omnibuses, a focus on the suffragette movement yet no talk of war. Surprisingly, it is between the portraits of the women that there is the most opposition the men offer less variation of type. There are several versions of He and She in this book as if Woolf set out to analyse men and women in general and offer us examples, some very diametrically opposed, as in the example above, and some hardly at all. She: believes she must renounce a life of reason to satisfy his feelings. He: believes women can only feel and not reason. She: would like to take a compass and a ruler and measure the distance between the stars. It looks like Virginia Woolf’s whisp is going to last a long time.He: would like to write verses comparing her eyes to the stars. At their finest they are both art, different, and yet with the same aims.īetween the candle lit and the candle cold there is a whisp of gray smoke. However, the writer’s pen interprets samples of the superficial that we might have missed in the painting, and it more deeply captures the inner person more entirely than any brush. The great portrait painter’s brush captures the outer person more adeptly than the great writer’s pen ever can, and it even reveals some of the inner person too. Woolf’s prose has nuances only successfully realized by women, but we will move past gender. But collector enthusiasm for Virginia Woolf’s books legitimately drives up her prices, and a rising price softens demand keeping copies of this NY edition of Night and Day sporadically for sale. This 1st American edition in jacket is less rare, but ABPC says only one copy has sold at auction since 1975 (34 years ago), and were it thought to be fairly valued at, say, $5,000, every copy that showed up in the trade would be quickly spoken for and you would never see a nice one for sale. Item #837 Here is 37–year old Woolf, shrewd as an insurance adjuster, trying her hand at contrasts by portraying 4 young people who idealize different kinds of independence and yet, as is conventional with young people, insist on each other’s support and fail to see any irony in that.ĭuckworth’s 1919 London 1st edition of Night and Day is aggravatingly rare in a dustjacket, and one as nice as our NY edition, would be 10 times our price, and if you can find one, and if you can afford it, buy that. Cloth with little corner rubs (light as a cat’s footfall), else fine, in an unrepaired dustjacket with the shadow of a handwritten number on the spine, corner chips, and edge tears, else very good.
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