MRS. DALLOWAY
by WOOLF, Virginia
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- first
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About This Item
Paris: Librairie Stock Delamain et Boutelleau, 1929. First French Edition. Octavo. Original printed wrappers. xii, 240pp. Roman traduit de l'anglais par S. David; Préface de André Maurois. All leaves unopened; a very good, clean and bright copy preserved in an acetate cover.
First French translation. Edition limited to 2700 numbered copies, this being № 262, printed on Alfa Satinè paper; from the collection Le Cabinet Cosmopolite, 31. In his preface, Maurois states his great admiration for Woolf whose work affected him profoundly. Comparing her style favorably with that of the Impressionists, he writes: "Virginia Woolf goes beyond Impressionism with this vision she has of the beauty and grandeur of life considered in its simplest acts." [Cataloguer's translation].
. Kirkpatrick & Clarke D22a.
First French translation. Edition limited to 2700 numbered copies, this being № 262, printed on Alfa Satinè paper; from the collection Le Cabinet Cosmopolite, 31. In his preface, Maurois states his great admiration for Woolf whose work affected him profoundly. Comparing her style favorably with that of the Impressionists, he writes: "Virginia Woolf goes beyond Impressionism with this vision she has of the beauty and grandeur of life considered in its simplest acts." [Cataloguer's translation].
. Kirkpatrick & Clarke D22a.
Synopsis
Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf that details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I England. Mrs Dalloway continues to be one of Woolf's best-known novels. Created from two short stories, "Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street" and the unfinished "The Prime Minister", the novel's story is of Clarissa's preparations for a party of which she is to be hostess.
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- Bookseller
- Second Wind Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 583
- Title
- MRS. DALLOWAY
- Author
- WOOLF, Virginia
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- First French Edition
- Publisher
- Librairie Stock Delamain et Boutelleau
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Icon, french, first, Impressionists, Clarissa, Dalloway,
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- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Wrappers
- The paper covering on the outside of a paperback. Also see the entry for pictorial wraps, color illustrated coverings for...