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First edition book: A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf. First edition, first printing. London: Hogarth Press, 1929. Hardcover bound in the publisher's cinnamon cloth with gilt-titled spine, 4.75 x 7.25, 172 pages. Book condition: VG/None, with spine darkened, typical browning to endpapers, and a subtle circular stain to front board.
Published in September 1929, A Room of One's Own is an extended essay based on two lectures Woolf delivered the previous year at Newnham College and Girton College, women's constituent colleges at the University of Cambridge. Assuredly her most well-known non-fiction work, A Room of One's Own is considered a key work of feminist literary criticism, one which argues for both a literal and figurative space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by men, and which spawned the much-quoted maxim: ‘A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.’
