A Room of One's Own by Woolf, Virginia - 1929

Like New/tight binding. No wear to dj. but scratched. Inscribed on Front End page "To Jim, God Bless!! (with a smiley underneath) Deanna Favre.

Boston: Marshall, Jones Company. 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Slight soiling on cover and on endpapers. ; 275 pages .

Washington D. C.: National Capital Press. 1915. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. ; Signed by author. A little book of suitable work and social work for women including Junior Leagues, Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Camp Fire Girls, YWCA's and more. ; 137 pages; Signed by Author .

London: J. Johnson, 1792. 2nd edition. Leather bound. Very good. 8vo. Contemporary embossed calf. Marbled edges. [xix], [1], 452 pp. Boards are detached, and top layer of leather missing from spine. Text block is near fine, with no foxing and only a few dark spots of tanning in margins. Pages are bright and crisp. 7 instances of pencilled underlining or brackets, otherwise the text is completely clean. From the library of noted collector Edward Hailstone, with his leather armorial bookplate inside front cover. "D. of Grafton, 1793" is signed on title page, which was George Henry FitzRoy, the 4th Duke of Grafton. This copy is listed in the "Catalogue of the Interesting Contents of Walton Hall, Near Wakefield; The Property of the Late Edward Hailstone" (Hailstone, 1891, Item #2663), which mentions Grafton's signature. This is a second edition of the foundational text of feminism and the women's rights movement, with a near fine text block and a fascinating provenance. (PMM 242).

[London?]: Printed for private circulation by C. F. Hodgson & Son, Ltd, 1931. Booklet (20.7 x 16.8cm, in 8s), pp. 98, [2] + b/w frontis and plates, pages stapled. Cream illustrated paper wrappers, lettered and decorated in green. Foxed and toned, nick to had of spine, wrappers separating towards head, staples rusty at rear. Else, internally tight and tidy. Still, a very good copy of an unusual booklet. With a fascinating 'women at work' section (pp. 52-92), written by alumni with a broad range of careers, including 'She Writes for the Films!' and 'A Minion of the Law' (with strict copyright instructions "By order of Scotland Yard"). A number of contributions came from prominent ex-pupils, such as the garden designer Madeline Agar, the first female prison governor Dr Selina Fox, sculptor Helen Fraser Rock ("First woman to gain Royal Academy prize for Sculpture") and Scottish Unionist MP for Kinross and West Perthshire and anti-suffrage campaigner, the Duchess of Atholl.

Metropolitan Books Henry Holt Co. New York., 1998. First Edition (Stated).. Softcover.. Fine/--. 9 x 6 x 1.. NON SMOKING STORE. My listing INCLUDES PHOTO OF ACTUAL BOOK for sale. Book and Covers FINE. Read gently once. Covers are coated matte card with photo front and white back. Covers and spine are clean, crisp, bright, unmarked, no creases, corners straight, no spine or vertical creases, a tiny bit of age darkening in the white of back cover along spine edge, if book is tilted in bright light, small rub marks can be seen from adjacent book on shelf. Page edges and inside of book are clean, tight, bright, white, crisp. Appears to have been gently read once as three page corner tips have been dog eared and restored flat. Black/white photos, diagrams, illustrations.

New York: Mora Boyle Publisher. Very Good. 1937. First Edition. Hardcover. Published weekly, January 20, 1937, vol. 2, no.3. Upscale magazine edited for the women of Metropolitan New York. Clean soft covers with lightly rubbed spine edge. Features: Hoodwinking Justice; Nostalgia; From salesgirl to buyer, Southward Ho! Fashions: Bermuda; Apres Midi Simplicity; So much to buy so much to spend; Along Topper Row. Photographs: Kids love the snow; Man versus machine. Magazine ; Drawings& Photographs; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 34 pages .

Copyright ends at 1965, No Edition, No Printing Stated. Last page has 72-73-74-75 10 9. The American Edition is the Second Edition. This is a First American Edition with a 1972 (later) Printing. The dust jacket has some soiling with tears at edges of the spine and corners, see photos. Book itself is in Near Fine condition with the exception of a stain inside the cover which transferred to the FEP and bled onto two pages beneath. (Lowered the rating to Very Good). The black boards with blue lettering have bumped spine edges.

Very Rare First edition 1928 hardcover by a New Zealand authoress, Jean Devanny. She was a pioneer writer and the author of "The Butcher Shop". The spine of the jacket states this book is "a powerful study of a woman's personality in a remote New Zealand bush town". The text has no writing and is in good condition with only lightly faded pages. The jacket is worn with a few tears and crinkles plus rubbing, but still colorful. It is adhering to the cloth covered boards and there is foxing to boards. Hinges are intact. Good binding.

London: J. Johnson, 1792. 2nd edition. Leather bound. Very good. 8vo. Contemporary embossed calf. Marbled edges. [xix], [1], 452 pp. Boards are detached, and top layer of leather missing from spine. Text block is near fine, with no foxing and only a few dark spots of tanning in margins. Pages are bright and crisp. 7 instances of pencilled underlining or brackets, otherwise the text is completely clean. From the library of noted collector Edward Hailstone, with his leather armorial bookplate inside front cover. "D. of Grafton, 1793" is signed on title page, which was George Henry FitzRoy, the 4th Duke of Grafton. This copy is listed in the "Catalogue of the Interesting Contents of Walton Hall, Near Wakefield; The Property of the Late Edward Hailstone" (Hailstone, 1891, Item #2663), which mentions Grafton's signature. This is a second edition of the foundational text of feminism and the women's rights movement, with a near fine text block and a fascinating provenance. (PMM 242).