# Is "Monday or Tuesday" by Virginia Woolf a First Edition?

> **Quick answer.** A first edition of Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf (The Hogarth Press, 1921) is identified by: True first is the Hogarth Press, London, 1921 (Kirkpatrick A5a), one of 1,000 copies, in brown quarter cloth over paper-covered boards with a front-cover design and four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell, with publisher's advertisements at the rear. The Hogarth (London) 1921 edition precedes the first American edition (Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1921; Kirkpatrick A5b), which is one of 1,500 copies from a wholly reset typesetting with the Hogarth misprints corrected.

**Checklist — a true first has these:**
- True first is the Hogarth Press, London, 1921 (Kirkpatrick A5a), one of 1,000 copies, in brown quarter cloth over paper-covered boards with a front-cover design and four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell, with publisher's advertisements at the rear
- CORRECTION to the census note: it was NOT hand-printed by the Woolfs at Hogarth — Kirkpatrick records it was printed commercially by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, Richmond, and the resulting typographic errors led Leonard Woolf to call it one of the worst-printed books ever issued
- A notoriously fragile book: the paper sides are almost always rubbed or chipped, so condition, not a printing point, governs desirability
- Publisher imprint reads The Hogarth Press
- Not a book-club edition (see below)

| | |
|---|---|
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| Publisher | The Hogarth Press |
| Year | 1921 |
| True first | American edition |
| Format | Hardcover (trade) |
| Key point | True first is the Hogarth Press, London, 1921 (Kirkpatrick A5a), one of 1,000 copies, in brown quarter cloth over paper-covered boards with… |
| Book-club edition exists? | — |

## Points of issue
True first is the Hogarth Press, London, 1921 (Kirkpatrick A5a), one of 1,000 copies, in brown quarter cloth over paper-covered boards with a front-cover design and four full-page woodcuts by Vanessa Bell, with publisher's advertisements at the rear. CORRECTION to the census note: it was NOT hand-printed by the Woolfs at Hogarth — Kirkpatrick records it was printed commercially by F. T. McDermott of the Prompt Press, Richmond, and the resulting typographic errors led Leonard Woolf to call it one of the worst-printed books ever issued. A notoriously fragile book: the paper sides are almost always rubbed or chipped, so condition, not a printing point, governs desirability.

## Is this the true first?
The Hogarth (London) 1921 edition precedes the first American edition (Harcourt, Brace, New York, 1921; Kirkpatrick A5b), which is one of 1,500 copies from a wholly reset typesetting with the Hogarth misprints corrected. This is Woolf's only story collection published in her lifetime; both editions are collected, with the Hogarth the priority true first.

## Source
New Mexico Literacy Project — Is *Monday or Tuesday* by Virginia Woolf a first edition? https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/first-edition/monday-or-tuesday
CC BY 4.0. Part of the Canonical First-Edition Points of Issue dataset (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/api/first-edition-titles.json). Last reviewed 2026-07-04.