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This book is in good condition. There is some fading along the top edge of the outside boards, as shown above. There are no bookplates or markings of any kind. The pages are clean and free of foxing. This is a Limited Edition, #258/492 signed by Virginia Woolf, published by The Hogarth Press / The Fountain Press in 1929. A rare find in any condition.

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.'