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Woolf, Virginia.. Jacob`s Room. New Edition.. London Hogarth Press, 1929.
Price: US$32.89 + shipping
Description: Small 8°. 290 pp. Original cloth without dust jacket. Uniform Edition of the Works. - Spine and edges of binding faded. Flyleafs browned. Gewicht (Gramm): 290
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$33.08 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. original green cloth gilt (a little rubbed & sunned, some offsetting to endpapers; lacks dustwrapper); pp. 290. A very good copy.
Seller: Arapiles Mountain Books - Mount of Alex, Castlemaine, VIC, Australia
Virginia Woolf. Jacob's Room. The Hogarth Press, 1929.
Price: US$33.30 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1929. New Edition. 290 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Clean pages. Notable foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with scuffing, staining and marking to boards. Heavy tanning to spine, with sunning to board edges. Small splits (approx. 1cm) to spine ends.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. Jacob's Room. The Hogarth Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A bit of faint offsetting on endpapers, pages lightly yellowed; jacket edges faded, small chips on extremities; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 1000 pages
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia. A room of one's own. Hogarth Press, 1929.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, 2nd impression, published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, October 1929. Free endpapers browned; light foxing to page edges; binding tight. Pale orange cloth faintly discoloured and marked; gilt lettering on spine. A nice copy of this early edition. Used - Very Good. VG hardback (no dust jacket)
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Jan 01, 1929, 1929.
Price: US$164.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jan 01, 1929 Hardcover Good Hogarth Press, 1959 reprint (13th) of 1929 original Cover shows minor wear Pages clean, with some warping of first dozen or so Binding tight Dust jacket good, with some small edgewear to spine ends and corners Generally a nice copy
Seller: Blue Leaf Books, Winona, MN, U.S.A.
VIRGINIA WOOLF. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. LEONARD & VIRGINIA WOOLF AT THE HOGARTH PRESS, LONDON, 1929.
Price: US$172.92 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A THIRD IMPRESSION PUBLISHED IN THE SAME YEAR AS THE FIRST EDITION, HARDBACK BOUND IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING, HALF TITLE, NO JACKET. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 7.5 X 5 INCHES. SLIGHT FADING TO EDGES OF BOARDS WITH A FEW MINOR BUMPS TO EDGE OF FRONT BOARD, FRONT HINGE COCKED SLIGHTLY FORWARD, ENDPAPERS BROWNED WITH A NAME TO INNER FRONT BOARD, VERY ODD SPOT OF LIGHT FOXING. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY & MOSTLY CLEAN INTERNALLY. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Price: US$620.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this much sought after early Virginia Woolf introduction, published in the same year as, A Room Of One's Own. A near fine copy, light offsetting to the endpapers, in the publisher's original coffee brown cloth covered boards, gilt on the spine in a lovely indeed, price intact dustwrapper, (uncommon thus), showing very minor light chipping at the crown of the spine and an inconsequential crease on the top of the front panel. A lovely example. Kirkpatrick And Clarke B9. Collie p. 149. Spiers & Coustillas FF1.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition. Hardcover. First Edition of this much sought after early Virginia Woolf introduction, published in the same year as, A Room Of One's Own. A near fine copy, light offsetting to the endpapers, in the publisher's original coffee maroon cloth covered boards, gilt on the spine in a price intact dust wrapper, (uncommon thus), showing sunning and minor chips to the ends of the rare spine. . A lovely example. Kirkpatrick And Clarke B9. Collie p. 149. Spiers & Coustillas FF1.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Description: First trade edition, 8vo, 172 pp. Recently bound in brown full morocco, a.e.g., a lovely copy.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$960.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First trade edition. Jacket has major loss to spine (more than half) and is rather rubbed and chipped to front and rear. Some light warping, and discolouration to edges of terracotta coloured boards. Very slightly cocked, top closed edges a little dusty, bookplate and owner details to ffep, otherwise content clean and tidy. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Virginia Woolf. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: A solid "starter" copy of the 1929 1st trade edition. Clean and VG (with bright gilt-lettering at the spine) in a bright, price-intact, G+ dustjacket, with substantial paper loss (2") at the lower half of the spine. Both panels perfectly intact but front panel is separated, as is the base of the spine. Still though, a presentable copy. 12mo, 172 pgs.
Seller: APPLEDORE BOOKS, ABAA, WACCABUC, NY, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia.. A Room of One`s Own.. London Hogarth Press, 1929.
Price: US$1074.33 + shipping
Description: Small 8°. 172 pp. Original cloth without dust jacket. First english Edition. - Spine faded, flyleafs browned, otherwise fine. Gewicht (Gramm): 192
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. The Hogarth Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original cinnamon cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on spine; lacking the dust jacket. Near Fine with faint lean to binding, light fading to spine and light soiling to cloth, foxing to top of textblock edge. Offsetting to free endsheets from binder's glue, slight musty odor to pages. A lovely copy of Woolf's feminist essay, which proclaims "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$1601.08 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: FIRST EDITION. Small 8vo. (7.2 x 4.8 inches). Finely bound in recent full brown morocco. Spine with raised bands. Red title label, gilt. Compartments ruled, lettered and decorated in gilt. Single gilt ruled border on boards. Top edge gilt. A Lovely copy.
Seller: Paul Foster. - ABA & PBFA Member., London, United Kingdom
Woolf (Virginia). A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press, London, 1929.
Price: US$2574.54 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original brown cloth. Dust-jacket. A great example of the first edition of Woolf's literary essay, famous for its insightful look at gender inequality, particularly in the arts. It calls for better conditions and opportunities for women writers.
Seller: Lycanthia Rare Books, Newark, NOTTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$3499.97 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original cinnamon cloth with gilt lettering. First English Edition. 1 of 3040 copies. Near Fine book in the original Very Good Dust Jacket by Vanessa Bell with tears along one spine edge and some small chips and tears. Kirkpatrick A12b.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press, London UK, 1929.
Price: US$3586.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good first trade edition of A Room of One's Own with a professionally repaired dust jacket. Original rust coloured cloth boards with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean contents. Internal repairs on dust jacket to high standard on the spine and fold edges.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: 172 pp. 12mo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Bookplate on pastedown; otherwise a bright, fine copy in a bright jacket with several tiny chips.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Fountain Press/Hogarth Press, 1929.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited edition. 1/492 copies, this being #329. Of the 492 copies 450 are for sale. Book very good plus, tanning to spine, rubbing to edges and corners, crack to front lower corner, minor toning to edges of pages, impressions from former plants on some pages. Comes in supplied paper-covered slipcase.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This book is in good condition. There is some fading along the top edge of the outside boards, as shown above. There are no bookplates or markings of any kind. The pages are clean and free of foxing. This is a Limited Edition, #258/492 signed by Virginia Woolf, published by The Hogarth Press / The Fountain Press in 1929. A rare find in any condition.
Seller: The Lion's End, Antiquarian Books, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia.. Jacob's Room.. London: The Hogarth Press, 1929, 1929.
Price: US$8645.83 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, the Hogarth Press "Uniform Edition", first impression, inscribed by Woolf on the front free endpaper, "Theodora Bosanquet, from Virginia Woolf, 1935". Bosanquet (1880-1961) was the secretary of Henry James, and had been twice published by Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press: first in 1924 with Henry James at Work, then in 1933 with a study of Paul Valery. Inscribed copies of this early Woolf novel are very scarce. Octavo. Original cloth, titles gilt to spine. With the dust jacket. Housed in a navy blue cloth folding case. Spine sunned through jacket, a sound copy, clean within and in general very good, with the jacket toned around spine, a little rubbed to ends and corners with some minimal tissue repair to verso.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$8966.05 + shipping
Description: Number 40 of 100 copies signed by Woolf, reserved for sale in Great Britain, from a total edition of 450.'Virginia Woolf entered the political arena with A Room of Ones Own (1929). It originated as two papers read to women undergraduates in the Arts Society at Newnham College and the ODTAA Society at Girton College, Cambridge, in October 1928. The aim was to establish a woman's tradition, recognizable through its distinct problems: the age-old confinement of women to the domestic sphere, the pressures of conformity to patriarchal ideas, and worst, the denial of income and privacy ('a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write'). A brief history of women's writing tries to prove that their works were deformed by inward strife-not convincingly when we are pressed to agree that Jane Eyre is flawed by its author's protest against the limitations imposed upon women. On the other hand, Virginia Woolf is brilliantly persuasive when she ridicules the power bias of male history narrowing in on war and kings with golden teapots on their heads. A counter-history waits in the wings: the untried potentialities of women, nurtured but unspoilt in women's colleges, who are not to be imitation men but are to think back 'through their mothers'. Virginia Woolf wants to retrieve rather than discard the traditions of womanhood, a position forecast in 1906 at the outset of her career with a historical story, 'The Journal of Mistress Joan Martyn', set during the fifteenth-century Wars of the Roses. It suggests that women excluded from historical record were the true makers of England as they passed their unnoticed code of preservation from mother to daughter, cultivating domestic order and the arts of peace, as opposed to militarized thugs who repeatedly destroyed it.' (Lyndall Gordon, Oxford DNB). Tall 8vo (240 × 145 mm), pp. [8], 159, [3]. Original deep red cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Unopened after p. 27. Author's signature in purple ink to half-title. Spine slightly sunned and very slightly rolled at head and foot but otherwise a fine copy. [Kirkpatrick A12a.]
Seller: Justin Croft Antiquarian Books Ltd ABA, Faversham, United Kingdom
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Fountain Press/Hogarth Press, New York/London, 1929.
Price: US$9000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited first edition, number 4 of 492 copies signed by Woolf on the half title page, of which 450 were for sale. Book very good plus, some wear at spine ends, minor discoloring mainly at top of covers, former owner's name on front free end paper, a couple of spots on rear paste-down and rear free end paper.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. The Fountain Press/The Hogarth Press, New York/London, 1929.
Price: US$9375.00 + shipping
Description: This edition preceded the English edition (both trade and signed) by three days. Original cinnamon cloth. One of only 492 copies SIGNED by the author (this copy marked "out of series" instead of numbered and belonged to the Yale University Press printer Carl Rollins) of this important and desirable title, a compelling essay on women and writing that has become a classic feminist text. "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction," said Woolf, "and that, as you will see, leaves the great problem of the true nature of woman and the true nature of fiction unsolved." Spine is mildly sunned; gilt strong. Near Fine
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, large paper issue, copy number 400 of a limited 492 signed by Virginia Woolf in purple ink. Publisher's original red cloth covered boards with titles in gilt on spine. Near Fine with subtle sunning to cloth, trivial wear to corners and spine ends and toning to pages. A lovely copy of Woolf's feminist essay, which proclaims "a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$9500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine copy. Signed Limited Edition, number 275 of 492 copies, Housed in a custom morocco, clam shell case. A very nice copy. No bumped corners to book. No ownership signatures. Issued without a jacket, now in a protective acetate sleeve.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Fountain press/Hogarth Press, New York and London, 1929.
Price: US$9975.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original red cloth, gilt title, (9.75 x 6 inches), 159 pages, plus numbered colophon. Signed limited first edition, number 261 of 492 copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink on the half title page, of which only 450 were for sale. Printed in U.S. by Robert Josephy and published on October 21, 1929, this edition preceded the English edition, both signed and trade, by three days (Kirkpatrick A12. Woolmer 215A). Exterior is in exceptionally fine condition, cloth is clean, and bright, the corners tight; internally, there is a closed tear along edge on page 65 (presumely from hastily opening the uncut page), binding is tight, overall a desirable copy of this classic feminist text. Size: Tall Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Fountain, New York, 1929.
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Tall 8vo, brick red cloth. New York & London: Fountain Press; Hogarth Press, 1929. Limited First Edition. Number 364 of 450 numbered copies, signed by the author. Very light binding wear on the corners & edges, but otherwise a fine copy of this important feminist book.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Virginia Woolf. A Room of One's Own. The Hogarth Press and The Fountain Press, 1929.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 492 copies SIGNED. Bound in publishers original cloth burgundy boards. No interior markings but for the authors signature in her characteristic purple ink on the half-title page. As stated in the Colophon: Of this book, four hundred and ninety copies, of which four hundred fifty are for sale, have been printed by Robert S. Josephs, in October 1929. Distributed in America by Random House, and in Great Britain by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press, London. Each copy signed by the author. Numbers one to one hundred inclusive are reserved for Great Britain. This is number 159. Possibly the [noted rare book collector] Frank Altschul copy (550 Park Avenue, New York City); envelope addressed to him from the [noted New York binder] James Macdonald Company found in volume. Altshul was a noted investment banker. His papers are housed at Columbia University. He was also involved in the founding of the Beinecke Rare Book Library at Yale. Altschul was the founder of The Overbrook Press, founded in 1934 in Stamford, Connecticut. Altschul initially pursued printing as a hobby, experimenting with a small press in his New York apartment. In 1934, he was approached by designer Margaret B. Evans, who had been working for Ashlar Press. Ashlar was closing, and Evans hoped Altschul would continue its work. Altschul set up the press in converted outbuildings on his Stamford farm and hired Evans as designer and compositor and John MacNamara as pressman. The Overbrook Press went on to print an eclectic variety of books and pamphlets, as well as ephemera such as awards and certificates. His most ambitious project was an edition of Prevost's Manon Lescaut, for which he created elaborate silk-screened illustrations. The volume, which was published in 1958 after six years of work, is considered one of the highest quality private press books of the time. This example of A Room of Ones Own was acquired at an auction containing Overbrook books, ephemera and effects pertaining to his granddaughter Katherine Graham.
Seller: Wiggins Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, SNEAB, Shelburne Falls, MA, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press, 1929.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION of 492 numbered copies. This copy is SIGNED by Virginia Woolf. A beautiful copy with light wear to the edges. The binding is tight with minor wear to the spine and panels. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. We buy Virginia Woolf First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Woolf, Virginia. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. Harcourt, Brace and Company, New York, 1929.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf, Virginia. A ROOM OF ONE'S OWN. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929, 8vo., 202pp. Publisher's original dark blue boards, titles to spine gilt. A near fine fresh copy in the rarely seen correct slate dustwrapper, printed in black & blue of the First American Edition, first printing. A lovely example of the very uncommon edition preceded only by the signed limited edition issued in the USA and simultaneously in the United Kingdom. Woolf's major polemic against patriarchy, based loosely on two lectures she delivered, one at Newnham and the other at Girton. Kirkpatrick and Clarke A12a. Woolmer 215. Woolf observed in her diary, "I shall be attacked for a feminist". An increasingly uncommon & important Woolf title & 20th century literary highlight. Rare copy. Kirkpatrick A12c.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Woolf, Virginia. A Room of One's Own. Hogarth Press, 1929.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: LIMITED EDITION of 492 numbered copies. This copy is authentically SIGNED by Virginia Woolf. A wonderful copy bound in the ORIGINAL Red cloth from the publisher. The binding is tight and the boards are crisp with light wear to the spine and edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR with an acetate cover to protect the book. We buy SIGNED Virginia Woolf First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.