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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.

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.