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96 WOOLF, Virginia. Mrs. Dalloway. London: Hogarth Press, 1925 “ MRS DALLOWAY DID BREAK THE MOULD” First edition, first impression, of Woolf’s mould-breaking masterpiece, in the very scarce Vanessa Bell jacket. Only 2,000 copies of the first printing were produced, and the dust jacket is rare in collectable condition. “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, p. 153). Octavo. Original dark red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Housed in a dark blue quarter morocco solander box by the Chelsea Bindery. Bookseller’s ticket (Philip C. Duschnes) to rear pastedown. A very nice copy indeed, cloth bright with just a little sunning to head of spine, offsetting to endpapers, a few pencilled underlinings to contents, in the well-preserved jacket, spine panel toned, ends a little chipped, closed tear to head of rear panel and a few nicks, else a nice, bright example. ¶ Kirkpatrick A9a; Woolmer 82. Marlowe Miller, Masterpieces of British Modernism , 2006. £32,500 [150306]
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