Back to Virginia Woolf Seminar Home Page"To the Lighthouse was published in England by the Hogarth Press on May 5, 1927 with a cream dust jacket printed in pale blue and black designed by Vanessa Bell, depicting a lighthouse amid waves. Woolf sent a bound dummy copy to Vita Sackville-West inscribed on the flyleaf, "Vita from Virginia (In my opinion the best novel I have ever written)"—all the pages were blank. The first U.S. edition appeared on the same day as the English edition with a green dust jacket printed in black and blue, also designed by Vanessa Bell. In September 1937, The Modern Library of the World’s Best Books brought out an edition with an introduction by Terence Halliday, and in 1938 a second English edition was issued by Everyman’s Library with an introduction by D. M. Hoare." —Mark Hussey. Virginia Woolf: A-Z. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.