Monday Or Tuesday was originally published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf’s Hogarth Press in 1921. Hogarth is one of the greatest continual inspirations for Two Plum Press– it is a great honor to bring one of these books back to life. The only Woolf short story collection published in her lifetime, when I first came upon a $1.95 Dover Thrift Editions copy of this book as-is (the stories have long been featured in anthologies, but I’d never ever heard of the collection as a stand alone work), I was immediately besotted with it.

The way it fit into the Two Plum Press format was uncanny. This edition is the first since the original publication to feature woodcut illustrations for “A String Quartet” by Woolf’s sister, Vanessa Bell.

“Examine for a moment an ordinary mind on an ordinary day. The mind receives a myriad impressions—trivial, fantastic, evanescent, or engraved with the sharpness of steel. From all sides they come, an incessant shower of innumerable atoms; and as they fall, as they shape themselves into the life of Monday or Tuesday”

— Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader

20s / 20s

20s / 20s is a series of classic slim volume works, published by Two Plum Press in the 2020s. Works featured in the series were originally published in the 1920s and have newly entered the public domain. 20s / 20s is an opportunity for the press to share favorite works by favorite authors of the past, and to uncover lost classics along the way. Placing these works side by side with the press’s contemporary titles is an intentional way to glance back 100 years and to feel the enduring magic of the small book.


About the publisher:

Two Plum Press produces slim volumes of literary works both contemporary and classic. Titles include works of poetry, essays, fiction, philosophy, visual art, travel and food writing. The books are produced entirely in industrial southeast Portland, Oregon.