Books

New York/London: Fountain Press/Hogarth Press, 1929. limited. hardcover. very good. Signed limited first edition, number 4 of 492 copies signed by Woolf on the half title page, of which 450 were for sale. Book very good plus, some wear at spine ends, minor discoloring mainly at top of covers, former owner's name on front free end paper, a couple of spots on rear paste-down and rear free end paper.

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.'