A Room of One's Own
by Woolf, Virginia
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No DJ
- Seller
-
Madison, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
New York: Harcourt Brace, 1929. 199pp. Blue Cloth, Gilt lettering on the spine is rubbed off. A touch of toning, otherwise a clean unmarked copy. No additional printing listed, indicating a true first edition, first printing. "Virginia.giving a lecture on women and fiction, tells her audience she is not sure if the topic should be what women are like; the fiction women write; the fiction written about women; or a combination of the three. Instead, she has come up with "one minor point--a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction." She says she will use a fictional narrator whom she calls Mary Beton as her alter ego to relate how her thoughts on the lecture mingled with her daily life." . First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No DJ. Octavo.
Synopsis
A Room of One's Own was first published in October 1929 in the UK and USA alike as a limited edition run of 492 numbered, signed copies. The first English edition and impression was released three days later with the Vanessa Bell dust jacket, published by Hogarth Press, the Woolfs' own publishing house. The first US edition was published by Harcourt Brace & Co.
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 034369
- Title
- A Room of One's Own
- Author
- Woolf, Virginia
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No DJ
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- Harcourt Brace
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- Octavo
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About the Seller
The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
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Madison, New Jersey
About The Chatham Bookseller, LLC
The Chatham Bookseller began in 1968, and, in 1970, opened a store at its present location in Madison, NJ. The store contains over 10,000 books in over 80 different subjects, and favors good used books and good literature (both hardcover and paperback) over popular books and bestsellers. Our Internet business began in 2001. Upon visiting the store, we can show and sell individual online titles upon request. Store hours are 10:00-5:30 (Tues.-Sat.) and 11:00-4:00 (Sun.). The business is run by Richard Chalfin.
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- Octavo
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