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New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf, Virginia. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929, 8vo., 202pp. Publisher's original dark blue boards, titles to spine gilt. A near fine fresh copy in the rarely seen correct slate dustwrapper, printed in black & blue of the First American Edition, first printing. A lovely example of the very uncommon edition preceded only by the signed limited edition issued in the USA and simultaneously in the United Kingdom. Woolf's major polemic against patriarchy, based loosely on two lectures she delivered, one at Newnham and the other at Girton. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A12a. Woolmer 215. Woolf observed in her diary, "I shall be attacked for a feminist". An increasingly uncommon & important Woolf title & 20th century literary highlight. Rare copy. Kirkpatrick A12c.

New York: Fountain, 1929. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Tall 8vo, brick red cloth. New York & London: Fountain Press; Hogarth Press, 1929. Limited First Edition.<br/> <br/> Number 364 of 450 numbered copies, signed by the author. Very light binding wear on the corners & edges, but otherwise a fine copy of this important feminist book.<br/> <br/>

New York and London: Fountain press/Hogarth Press, 1929. Original red cloth, gilt title, (9.75 x 6 inches), 159 pages, plus numbered colophon. Signed limited first edition, number 261 of 492 copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink on the half title page, of which only 450 were for sale. Printed in U.S. by Robert Josephy and published on October 21, 1929, this edition preceded the English edition, both signed and trade, by three days (Kirkpatrick A12. Woolmer 215A). Exterior is in exceptionally fine condition, cloth is clean, and bright, the corners tight; internally, there is a closed tear along edge on page 65 (presumely from hastily opening the uncut page), binding is tight, overall a desirable copy of this classic feminist text.. Signed. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine. Tall Octavo.

The Fountain Press and The Hogarth Press: New York and London, 1929. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, large paper issue, copy number 400 of a limited 492 signed by Virginia Woolf in purple ink. Publisher's original red cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on spine. Near Fine with subtle sunning to cloth, trivial wear to corners and spine ends and toning to pages. A lovely copy of Woolf's feminist essay, which proclaims "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

New York/London: The Fountain Press/The Hogarth Press, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Spine is mildly sunned; gilt strong. Near Fine. This edition preceded the English edition (both trade and signed) by three days. Original cinnamon cloth. One of only 492 copies SIGNED by the author (this copy marked "out of series" instead of numbered and belonged to the Yale University Press printer Carl Rollins) of this important and desirable title, a compelling essay on women and writing that has become a classic feminist text. "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction," said Woolf, "and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved."

London:: Published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,, 1929.. First edition.. publisher's cloth in dust jacket.. Bookplate on pastedown; otherwise a bright, fine copy in a bright jacket with several tiny chips. . 12mo,.

London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press. Original cinnamon cloth with gilt lettering. First English Edition. 1 of 3040 copies. Near Fine book in the original Very Good Dust Jacket by Vanessa Bell with tears along one spine edge and some small chips and tears. Kirkpatrick A12b. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1929.

Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, London. 1929. FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo. (7.2 x 4.8 inches). Finely bound in recent full brown morocco. Spine with raised bands. Red title label, gilt. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. A Lovely copy.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. First Edition. Near Fine. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original cinnamon cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with faint lean to binding, light fading to spine and light soiling to cloth, foxing to top of textblock edge. Offsetting to free endsheets from binder's glue, slight musty odor to pages. A lovely copy of Woolf's feminist essay, which proclaims "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First American Edition. First Printing, trade issue, one of 4,000 copies. Octavo (19.5cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [vi],199,[3]pp. Spine gently sunned, gilt beginning to oxidize, with two small, faint stains to lower front cover; contents clean; Very Good+. In a later dustjacket designed by Vanessa Bell, priced $2.00 on front flap; modest sunning to spine and panels, moderate overall wear, with numerous tears and attendant creases; losses to spine ends and corners, including a larger loss (affecting some text) at lower left corner of front flap; old tape repairs to spine panel on verso, with both flaps neatly re-attached; a Good example, not without some shelf appeal. An extended essay by Woolf, based on two papers read to the Arts Society at Newnham and the Odtaa at Girton in October, 1928, in which she discusses at length the barriers which hinder women's free expression. "Women - asks Mrs. Woolf - what is the… Read More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, (1929). First Edition. First Printing Very good+ in black cloth covered boards with yellow text on the spine. A 12mo of 7 3/8 by 5 1/4 inches with a long gift inscription dated in the year of publication on the first free end page and with minor rubbing to the cloth at the head and heel of the spine. In a good+ price clipped dust jacket with a one inch deep chip at the upper edge of the spine area, three 1/4 inch deep chips at the upper edge of the front panel and two shallow chips at the lower edge of the spine area which is well tanned. 199 pages of text. One of only 4,000 copies of the first trade edition in it original, very scarce dust jacket.

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, 1929. First trade edition. Jacket has major loss to spine (more than half) and is rather rubbed and chipped to front and rear. Some light warping, and discolouration to edges of terracotta coloured boards. Very slightly cocked, top closed edges a little dusty, bookplate and owner details to ffep, otherwise content clean and tidy.. Cloth. Good/Poor. 12mo.

New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1929. First American Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 199 pages. In Good plus condition, lacking the issued dust jacket. Full blue cloth binding with faded gilt lettering on spine. Moderate shelfwear. Chipping along head and tail of spine. Rubbing to covers. Age toning to front free end paper and back free end paper. Textblock clean. Shelved Case 2. 1370692. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

London: The Hogarth Press, 1931 . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. The first Uniform Edition of Virginia Woolf's critical treatise on the economic and social position of women in early twentieth century English society. The first edition thus, being the first impression issued as the 'Uniform Edition'. Kirkpatrick's bibliography notes that impressions six to twelve were issued as the Uniform Edition, with this effectively being the sixth impression of the first edition. Kirkpatrick A12b.In the scarce publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.First published in September 1929, A Room of One's Own is a reworking of two lectures delivered by Woolf at Cambridge University, expressing the essential point that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'.Contemporary inscription to rear free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of fading to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally fine.… Read More

New York City: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good. B Tall Shelf Black boards with gilt lettering [8]+3-199p Interior pages fine. Newspaper articles have been glued to paste-down and three feps, four sections Boards very clean with nice gilt on spine Price Clipped Dj Newspaper stain on Dj flap. Some short silver fish action on edge of Dj front flap side. Very short tear head and tail. Four reviews of book on rear of Dj Copyright 1929 and publisher

London; The Folio Society, 2017., 2017. Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION THUS. Octavo, pp. vi, 182. With a frontispiece and 5 additional plates depicting woodcuts by Vanessa Bell. Bound in ivory and navy pictorial cloth. The artwork is the same as the original cover art of Room of One's Own by Hogarth Press in 1929. Housed in an ivory and navy pictorial slipcase. Fine book in Fine slipcase. Elegant edition of Woolf's influential literary criticism and feminist writing. Illustrated with monochrome post-impressionist woodcuts by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell. Scarce

Toronto, Canada: McClelland & Steward Limited, 1932. Very Scarce. 199 pages in very good condition. This essay is based upon two papers read to the Arts Society at Newnham and the Odtaa at Girton in October 1928. Pages are clean and unmarked. Deckle edges, lightly darkened. Bound in dark blue cloth, titles on spine worn off. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. Lighlty worn on the corners. Book is solid. VG.. 1st Canadian Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York: Harcourt Brace, 1929. 199pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt lettering on the spine is rubbed off. A touch of toning, otherwise a clean unmarked copy. No additional printing listed, indicating a true first edition, first printing. "Virginia.giving a lecture on women and fiction, tells her audience she is not sure if the topic should be what women are like; the fiction women write; the fiction written about women; or a combination of the three. Instead, she has come up with "one minor point--a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She says she will use a fictional narrator whom she calls Mary Beton as her alter ego to relate how her thoughts on the lecture mingled with her daily life." . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. Octavo.

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Forewords by Maureen Howard, Eudora Welty, and Mary Gordon, respectively. Purple cloth with silver spine titles. Each volume housed in a lavender board slipcase with paper label. Slipcases are near fine with stains to bottom edges. A very nice set. . Fine. Hardcover. First Thus. 1981.

New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1946. First US Edition/Early Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. in blue cloth with yellow type that has dulled. Corners dinged/softened with small split at bottom front. Some faintly visible stains/rings to boards. Some tanning to front endpapers where later newspaper clipping laid in, otherwise clean. Partial split to rear hinge at rear endpapers to middle half, but still solid. Jacket is unclipped(no price) with tape repairs to tops and bottoms of spine ends and corners -inside and out. Some splitting to spine and across at bottom. Scarce jacket soiled, stained and tanned with chips and short tears mostly at spine ends/corners.