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Lot 353
Sale 1023 - The Library of Jack Charles Davis, Sold to Support Charitable Institutions
May 3, 2022
9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$3,125
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WOOLF, Virginia (1882-1941). A Room of One's Own. London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, 1929.
8vo. Half-title. Original cinnamon cloth, spine gilt-lettered (some light spotting to sheet edges); unrestored pale pink dust jacket printed in navy blue, designed by Vanessa Bell (some toning to front and spine panels, some minor spotting, a few tears with occasional repairs on verso).
FIRST ENGLISH EDITION, one of 3040 copies published in October 1929. Originating in two lectures given by Woolf in October 1928 to students at the two women’s colleges of Cambridge University, A Room of One’s Own was first published as an essay entitled “Women and Fiction” in Forum (March, 1929). Kirkpatrick A12b.
