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

London: Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,, 1929. A notably bright copy in the jacket Small crown octavo. Original orange cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With the dust jacket designed by Vanessa Bell. Partially erased ownership inscription to front free endpaper. Spine gently cocked, negligible rubbing to bottom edge, small bump to top outer corner of front board, faint foxing to edges, light offsetting to endpapers; a remarkably bright copy in the foxed jacket with creasing and small chips to spine ends and tips, a couple of short closed tears to rear panel. First trade edition, first impression. A Room of One's Own is Woolf's feminist literary manifesto, in which she assesses the history of women as writers and the challenges they have faced. She notes the effects of patriarchal literary culture on female characters, and makes the case that women must carve out both physical and psychological space for themselves in order to become part of the literary establishment. The work is based on two papers read to the Arts Society at Newnham and the Odtaa at Girton in October 1928. The signed limited edition was issued simultaneously in the USA and in the UK three days earlier. Kirkpatrick A12.b.