Books

New York: Fountain, 1929. Limited. hardcover. near fine. Tall 8vo, brick red cloth. New York & London: Fountain Press; Hogarth Press, 1929. Limited First Edition. Number 364 of 450 numbered copies, signed by the author. Binding wear on the corners & edges and extremes of spine, but a very good copy of this important feminist book.

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.'