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London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. First Edition. Near Fine/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original salmon cloth lettered in gilt. Near Fine with ownership bookplate of writer Olga Jamison to front pastedown, light offsetting to endsheets and evidence of small appendage (bookseller ticket?) removed pastedown. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket designed by Woolf's sister Vanessa Bell, with light toning to spine, light chipping, minor splitting to joints, small tears to top edge of front panel. Virginia Woolf's classic feminist essay presented to students at Newnham College and Girton College and women's college at University of Cambridge. Woolf argues in this influential work that women need educational and financial independence from men in order to thrive as whole beings. A fantastic copy, with provenance of writer Olga Jamison who wrote scripts for 30's Western films.

A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf, first published in September 1929. The work is based on two lectures Woolf delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at the University of Cambridge. In this essay, Woolf addresses the limitations and prejudices that affect women writers and the conditions necessary for their creative work. The book is noted for its famous dictum, 'A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.'

One method of determining if a copy of 'A Room of One's Own' is a first edition is to check the publisher and date. First editions were published by Hogarth Press in 1929. Additionally, identifying features such as the presence of dust jackets, specific cover designs, and typographical errors that were corrected in later editions can also indicate a first edition.