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First edition, first impression. Jacob's Room, Woolf's third novel, was the first full-length book to be published by the Hogarth Press and marked the point from which the Woolfs decided to run the press as a genuine business concern. Octavo (180 x 120 mm). Finely bound by the Chelsea Bindery in dark blue morocco, spine lettered and decorated gilt, raised bands, single rule to boards gilt, inner dentelles gilt, burgundy endpapers, gilt edges. Light foxing to prelims and endmatter, otherwise a fine copy. .

Jacob's Room is Virginia Woolf's first novel to employ her distinct stream-of-consciousness narrative style. The story revolves around the life of Jacob Flanders and reflects on themes such as the effects of World War I on English society, the passage of time, and the challenges of understanding an individual's subjective experience.