WOOLF, Virginia.

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WOOLF, Virginia.
Mrs. Dalloway. London, Leonard & Virginia Woolf, The Hogarth Press, 1925. In-8 [186 x 125] of 293 pp, (1) f. : publisher's burgundy cloth boards, in illustrated dust jacket, black morocco spine folder and case by Devauchelle. First edition. The dust jacket is decorated with an original composition in colors by Vanesssa Bell. "The most popular of Virginia Woolf's (1882-1941) novels and its modernity continue to question the 'common reader' as well as the most demanding commentators" (Jacques Aubert). Tears and tears to the dust jacket. Copy enriched with the famous letter sent at the end of June 1922 by Virginia Woolf to T.S. Eliot, proposing the first version of Mrs. Dalloway for her literary review and congratulating him for The Waste Land. Dear Tom, I should like to write a story called 'Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street' (the title, I suppose, could be changed if necessary.) I should certainly expect to let you have it by Oct. 1st. I don't think there will be any doubt about it. Only as the doctors may insist upon my not writing this summer (there is now a vague suspicion about my lungs). I must not be positive. And you didn't commit yourself to take it. I don't think we had time the other night to say how much we admired your poem. Yours ever Virginia Woolf (Autograph letter signed on Hogarth House letterhead, undated [Spring 1922], 1 page in-4.) Director of The Criterion magazine, Eliot refused the text, which was finally published in July 1923 in The Dial, before being integrated into the novel two years later. The poem Virginia Woolf praised was The Waste Land, which the poet had read at a dinner party at the Woolfs' house on June 23, 1922. It was first published in The Criterion in October 1922. Leonard and Virginia Woolf gave a 450-copy edition to the Hogarth Press in September 1923 - the typography of which was executed by the novelist herself.
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