A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN
$12,500 · Offered by Biblio
First edition · In dust jacket
New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Dust Jacket Included. First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf, Virginia. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929, 8vo., 202pp. Publisher's original dark blue boards, titles to spine gilt. A near fine fresh copy in the rarely seen correct slate dustwrapper, printed in black & blue of the First American Edition, first printing. A lovely example of the very uncommon edition preceded only by the signed limited edition issued in the USA and simultaneously in the United Kingdom. Woolf's major polemic against patriarchy, based loosely on two lectures she delivered, one at Newnham and the other at Girton. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A12a. Woolmer 215. Woolf observed in her diary, "I shall be attacked for a feminist". An increasingly uncommon & important Woolf title & 20th century literary highlight. Rare copy. Kirkpatrick A12c.
- Publisher: Harcourt, Brace and Company
- Year: 1929
- Edition: First Edition
- Printing: first
- Binding: hardcover
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