92 324.WOOLF, Virginia. mrs. dalloway. Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. 1925. £1,995
crown 8vo. rebound by bayntun in full red morocco, spine lettered and ruled in gilt and with gilt centre tools, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; a very good copy.
first edition. With the pencil signature, dated 1925, of the artist E. McKnight Kauffer who designed the hogarth press wolf’s head device.
A film version of mrs dalloway was made in 1997 by dutch film director marleen gorris. it was adapted from Woolf’s novel by british actress eileen Atkins and starred vanessa redgrave in the title role. the cast included natascha mcelhone, lena headey, rupert graves, michael kitchen, Alan cox, sarah badel and katie carr.
mrs dalloway was an important element of the plot of both the michael cunningham novel The Hours and its subsequent screen adaptation. cunningham’s title was derived from Woolf’s original title for Mrs Dalloway.
325 325.WOOLF, Virginia. the years. Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press. 1937. first edition.
326. WORLD WAR TWO. Album of original cartoons and drawings. 9th and 10th september 1943.
£998
oblong 8vo embossed paper autograph album. With 15 highly accomplished original pen and ink and crayon caricatures and drawings, signed and dated “l. rea”.
A fascinating collection of witty cartoons of churchill, hitler and stalin, together with highly finished drawings of fighter aircraft and naval ships.
containing:
1. cartoon of Winston churchill in characteristic bow tie, glowering and smoking a cigar.
2. cartoon of hitler dressed as a woman taking an axe to a portrait of stalin.
3. cartoon captioned “the lion has Wings” showing a british fighter portrayed as a snarling lion attacking a scared looking german eagle.
4. cartoon of stalin telling hitler (again dressed as a woman in suspenders and high heels) to “git up them stairs” with hiltler’s reply “oh yeh”.
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5. A [unfinished?] cartoon of hitler and stalin sitting in winter scenery. 6. A drawing of a typhoon fighter plane. 7. A drawing of a fighter strafing. 8. A drawing of “destroyers on patrol”. 9. A drawing of the “battleship george v” 10. A drawing of “the scottish Zula”. 11. A drawing of a “motor torpedo boat”. 12. A drawing of “the norfolk Wherry”.
£998
8vo. original green cloth, spine lettered in gilt; with the dust-jacket designed by vanessa bell; closed tear at foot of spine of wrapper, generally a very good clean copy, nicer than usual..
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