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Original cinnamon cloth with gilt lettering. First English Edition. 1 of 3040 copies. Near Fine book in the original Very Good Dust Jacket by Vanessa Bell with tears along one spine edge and some small chips and tears. Kirkpatrick A12b.

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.'