A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf
First trade edition, first printing of Woolf's seminal reflection on women and writing, originally delivered as a series of lectures to the two women's colleges at Cambridge. In the iconic dust jacket with the navy woodcut design by Woolf's sister, Vanessa Bell. Laid in is the publisher's promotional pamphlet for their uniform editions of Woolf's books.
London: The Hogarth Press, 1929. Publisher's original cinnamon cloth, spine lettered in gilt; pp. [iv], 5-172. A very good copy in a fair, unclipped dust jacket. Binding remains sturdy with a slight lean, boards lightly bowed, minimal shelfwear to boards. Offsetting to endpapers, else internally quite clean. Jacket shows loss to the back panel, a few splits and pinholes along spine joints, general shelfwear and rubbing. Protected in archival mylar.