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WOOLF, Virginia.. Mrs. Dalloway.. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1925, 1925.
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Description: First edition, first impression. While drafting the work, Woolf commented in her diary that "I think the design is more remarkable than in any of my books. I feel I can use up everything I've ever thought" (15 October 1923). Kirkpatrick notes that around 2,000 copies were printed. "Woolf maintained that her generation had to break the mould of the novel in order to speak of the radically changed world around them [and] Mrs. Dalloway did break the mould. It established her as a powerful force in the British Modernist literary scene" (Miller, Masterpieces of British Modernism, p. 153). Kirkpatrick A9a; Woolmer 82. Octavo (185 x 125 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in full dark blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, single rule to boards gilt, twin rule to turn-ins gilt, plain burgundy endpapers, all edges gilt. Some occasional light spotting, an excellent copy finely bound.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. The Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth lettered in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with fading to spine with chipping ends; uneven sunning to boards. Offsetting to endsheets and contents lightly tanned. Virginia Woolf's best-known works, published by Virginia and her husband Leonard at their Hogarth Press.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. The Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light wear at extremities, slight fading to cloth at spine. Pages lightly toned. Front and rear free endsheets offset from binder's glue, and light tape burns there as well. A lovely copy of one of Virginia Woolf's best-known works, published by Virginia and Leonard at their Hogarth Press.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. The Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's brick red cloth; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with light uneven sunning and light wear to cloth, corners pushed in, foxing to textblock edge and an inscription from a former owner to the front free endpaper. A very sharp and lovely copy of one of Virginia Woolf's best-known works, published by Virginia and her husband Leonard at their Hogarth Press.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$55000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. One of 2000 copies. Publisher's deep rust cloth, gilt lettering to spine; in its original cream-colored dust jacket, printed in black and white, and designed by Vanessa Bell. Fine book, with just some light offsetting to endpapers, and novelist Dennis Wheatley's bookplate to front pastedown; fine unclipped dust jacket, with a few small closed tears to panel edges, very shallow chipping to spine ends, light toning and a touch of staining to spine, panels remarkably bright and clean with just a hint of soiling to rear panel, and a tiny chip to front flap fold. Overall, an exemplary copy of arguably Virginia Woolf's greatest novel. Housed in a custom quarter leather box with folding chemise. Kirkpatrick A9a. Woolmer 82. One of the author's best-known novels, Mrs. Dalloway tells the story of Clarissa Dalloway as she prepares to host a high-society party. The text is a compilation of two of Woolf's short stories "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street" and "The Prime Minister." A stream of consciousness narrative, Mrs. Dalloway follows the protagonist from her decision to "buy the flowers herself" at the start of the day through the completion of her party in the evening. Throughout the novel, Woolf explores the impact of mental illness on daily life, both in Mrs. Dalloway, who reveals that she is being treated for depression, and a second leading character, Septimus Warren Smith, a WWI veteran suffering from PTSD who chooses to commit suicide rather than face involuntary commitment to a psychiatric hospital. Like many of Woolf's novels, the text is centered on philosophy and perception rather than action sequences and dialogue; John W. Crawford agrees in his New York Times Review that "One day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway is the complete story of Mrs. Woolf's new novel, yet she contrives to enmesh all the inflections of Mrs. Dalloway's personality, and many of the implications of modern civilization, in the account of those twenty-four hours." Dennis Wheatley (1897-1977) was a writer of thrillers and occult novels who was enormously popular from the 1930s to 1960s, selling more than 20 million books. His most successful series were the Duke de Richleau series, Roger Brook series, and Gregory Sallust series. For the Sallust series - a spy series set during World War II - Wheatley drew on his personal experience as a member of British Intelligence in World War II. Notably, Ian Fleming is believed to have used George Sallust as a model for his own fictional spy, James Bond. Wheatley was an avid book collector, and his personal collection of 2,274 books, many of which were modern first editions, was first acquired by Oxford's Blackwell's in 1979.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. Mrs Dalloway.. Hogarth Press, London, 1925.
Price: US$56000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of one of Woolf's best-known novels, one of only 2000 copies. Octavo, original orange cloth. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some light wear to the extremities. From the library of Virginia bibliophile and historian Christopher Clark Geest with his bookplate to the pastedown. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box. An exceptional example, scarce and desirable in the original dust jacket and in this condition. "In Mrs. Dalloway Woolf breaks decisively with the fictional conventions of the realistic novel. The technique is almost orchestral, introducing and then interweaving the strains of the different charactersâ thoughts, and finally engineering, through a subtle sequence of readjustments and realignments, a new and delicate harmony between them at the close of the book. Mrs. Dalloway thus initiated Woolfâs sequence of radical experiments with literary form, embodying a striking combination of fluid sympathy and secret resistance. Through the novelâs rapid transitions between apparently disconnected, but secretly related stories, Woolf was able to suggest the hazards of neatly pigeonholing human character according to social situation or gender" (Parker, 110-11). in 2005 it was included on Time's list of the 100 best English-language novels written since 1923. It was adapted to the 1997 film starring Vanessa Redgrave in the title role.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.