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WOOLF VIRGINIA; FREUND GISALEABAA

Photograph of Virginia Woolf signed by GisÃ¨le Freund

19392425London: np 1939. First edition. Framed. Fine. THE MOST CELEBRATED PHOTOGRAPH FROM VIRGINIA WOOLF'S LAST SITTING WITH A PROFESSIONAL PHOTOGRAPHER; GISÃˆLE FREUND'S PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THIS SITTING ARE THE ONLY COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS EVER TAKEN OF WOOLF. "Woolf was acutely self-conscious and disliked sitting for pictures never mind 'seeing herself'. But a few rare portraits often by her family or friends capture her inner spirit. Freund's images takenÂ just before the outbreak of war in 1939 are extremely valuable for not only are they unique in showing Woolf in her London home but they are in colour. Freund pioneered colour photography and made portraits of James Joyce Samuel Beckett Aldous Huxley and many other writers. "Freund was twice refused admission to Tavistock Square but eventually WoolfÂ succumbed. She agreed to change her clothes to see which best suited the colour harmony. In some of the prints Woolf is pale andÂ lined in others smiling a little and more youthful. TheÂ background of fabrics and mural panels by Bell and Grant adds to the value of the images; this was the inner sanctum of the queen of Bloomsbury where parties were given and friends came to tea. JustÂ over a year later the house was destroyed in the blitz but for some time mural panels were left hanging on the wall open to the weather as recorded later by the Woolfs' friends Stephen Spender and William Plomer as the last vestiges of a disappearing world." Richard Shone "Portraits of Virginia Woolf: here the true face of the modern writer" The Guardian 20 June 2014. "Freund who was closely associated in Paris with Sylvia Beach her bookshop Shakespeare & Company and its visiting authors including James Joyce specialised in photographs of writers. Indeed it was Joyce who suggested that she should add to her collection by going to London. He assured her that if English writers knew she had photographed him and that he was pleased with the results they would readily agree to sit for her. This proved correct and she successfully photographed T.S. Eliot Elizabeth Bowen George Bernard Shaw Vita Sackville-West who also provided her with a letter of introduction Herbert Read and Peggy Guggenheim Victoria Ocampo and Hugh Walpole. "Virginia Woolf however initially turned her down. That is until Victoria Ocampo the wealthy Argentinian founder and publisher of the literary review Sur whom Woolf admired turned up at Tavistock Square with Freund in tow in order to show Woolf contact sheets of the literary men and women Freund had photographed. "Under pressure Woolf gave in and a sitting was arranged for later that same day. Woolf 's diary written before the afternoon session commenced reveals much irritation: 'No getting out of it with Okampo sic on the sofa & Freund there in the flesh. So my afternoon is gone in the way to me most detestable and upsetting of all.' Freund had recently begun working with colour film which had just come on to the market and Woolf dreaded becoming a 'life-sized life coloured animated photograph' yet it pleased her that at her request Leonard would also be photographed. "She left no account of this sitting but we can deduce from details supplied by Freund and from other clues that it was an unexpected success. Perhaps Woolf 's dread was removed by Joyce's message or Vita Sackville-West's introductory letter for the photographs show that she willingly collaborated: in fact she offered to show Freund her wardrobe so that she could help choose the most suitable clothes and three times changed her blouse and once the jacket she was wearing. "At one point she proudly informed Freund that there had been a celebrated photographer in her own family and she brought out a copy of the book that the Hogarth Press had published of Julia Margaret Cameron's photographs with essays by herself and Roger Fry and this she inscribed to Freund. "Out of this session came some of the most eloquent photo-portraits of Woolf ever produced. They vary in mood as outward composure gives way to melancholy introspection. They are also the only colour photographs of Woolf ever taken. For technical reasons it was not possible to publish them in colour at the time and for many years they were known only in black-and-white format. "After a bomb had sliced open the house in October 1940 and destroyed the better part of this room the decorations on the fireplace wall could be seen from the street below a fragile reminder of a different age a different way of life." Frances Spalding "The last photograph of Virginia Woolf" The Telegraph July 9 2014. Size: 8x12 in. 21x30 cm. Framed: 17x21 in. 43x53 cm. Chromogenic print. Taken June 1939; printed later likely c.1970s. Signed by Freund on back beneath Freund's stamped address and credit. Freund's blindstamp at bottom right of image. Elegantly framed with archival matting and UV-protecting museum glass. A stunning image in fine condition. np unknown books

The Manhattan Rare Book Company · États-Unis4 700,00 $US≈ 3 976,67 €

Woolf, VirginiaBiblio.com

The Voyage Out

1915140944870London: Duckworth & Co 1915. First Edition. Trial Binding. Very Good. First edition first printing. iv 458 8 ads 16 ads pp. The author's first book. Bound in what appears to be a publisher's trial binding: dark blue cloth triple ruled in blind on upper board with spine lettered in gilt and decorated with floral device in blind; lacking the dust jacket. J. Kirkpatrick notes a similar apparition appearing almost three-quarters of a century ago in A Bibliography of Virginia Woolf "a copy in red cloth lettered in gold on the spine and on the upper cover with the floral device and motto in blind on the lower cover was advertised in Raphael King Ltd's catalogue No. 52 1951 and is now in the Robert H. Taylor Collection Princeton University Library. It is probably a trial binding." In contrast the usual trade binding is green cloth with the spine lettered in gilt and paneled title block in black to upper board. Very Good. Slight lean to binding light edge wear to cloth. Spine ends bruised blemish to spine and gilt dulled. Foxing to textblock edge former owner name and date to front free endpaper endsheets browned and pages toned hinge at rear endsheet is lightly exposed at the ends. Woolf began writing her first novel in 1910 and completed several drafts before its publication in 1915. It was a difficult five years for Woolf in which she suffered from bouts of depression and a suicide attempt but the final work contained seeds of what would later become her trademark: an innovative narrative style a focus on feminine consciousness sexuality and death. Very Good. Slight lean to binding light edge wear to cloth. Spine ends bruised blemish to spine and gilt dulled. Foxing to textblock edge former owner name and date to front free endpaper endsheets browned and pages toned hinge at rear endsheet is lightly exposed at the ends. Woolf began writing her first novel in 1910 and completed several drafts before its publication in 1915. It was a difficult five years for Woolf in which she suffered from bouts of depression and a suicide attempt but the final work contained seeds of what would later become her trademark: an innovative narrative style a focus on feminine consciousness sexuality and death. Duckworth & Co unknown

Burnside Rare Books, ABAA · États-Unis4 500,00 $US≈ 3 807,45 €

Virginia WoolfBiblio.com

The Waves

1931806P4DLondon: The Hogarth Press 1931. First edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Very Good. 7.5" by 5". Vanessa Bell. A nice first edition copy of this experimental novel by Virginia Woolf one of her most puzzling publications here in the original beautifully designed dust wrapper by Vanessa Bell. The first edition first impression of this work.In the original Vanessa Bell designed unclipped dust wrapper.One of the experimental novels of Virginia Woolf following six narrators from childhood to adulthood through a series of soliloquies ruminating on the concepts of individuality self and community. Readers can see some of Woolf's friends in her characters in this novel; in particular E. M. Forster in the writer Bernard T. S. Eliot in the outsider Louis Lytton Strachey in Neville Mary Hutchinson in the socialite Jinny Vanessa Bell in the fleeing Susan and Thoby Stephen in the flawed and never narrator Percival.Written by the Bloomsbury author Virginia Woolf a central figure of the literary group herself known for her experimental writings and affair with fellow author Vita Sackville-West. Published by the Hogarth Press the Bloomsbury publishing house founded ran by Leonard and Virginia Woolf. The press was founded in the interwar period as printing became a hobby for the couple diverting Virginia when her writing became too stressful. Both Woolfs' taught themselves to use a printing press publishing 527 titles from the period of 1917 to 1946. In the original publisher's cloth binding in the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally smart. Spine and extremities are a little discoloured. Very light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Dust wrapper is a little edge worn with some chips and closed tears mostly to the head and tail of the spine. Light discoloration and a few minor marks to the wraps. Internally firmly bound. Pages are lightly age-toned and clean. Near Fine The Hogarth Press hardcover

Rooke Books · Royaume-Uni2 900,00 £GB≈ 3 311,22 €

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