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Hardcover. First Edition, Near Fine with a Very Good + dust jacket, very rare. Possibly early/first printing (no other printings stated). In black cloth covered boards with yellow text on the spine. Slight scuffing on front board, otherwise clean. Text is clean throughout except for a small penciled number on the inside of the front board. In a very good+ price clipped dust jacket with slight fading on the spine and a small dent on the upper spine area, with some staining on the top edge.Otherwise, amazingly well-preserved. 199 pages of text. Very rare intact dust jacket for this first edition.

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.'