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Lot 239
Sale 759 - Selections from the Library of Gerald and Barbara Weiner
Oct 8, 2020
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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 (fore-edge with slight spotting); original pale pink dust jacket printed in navy blue, designed by Vanessa Bell.
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.