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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.
Virginia Woolf. A Room of One's Own. The Fountain Press, 1929.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine Copy In Red Cloth 1/400 Copies Signed. Owner Inscription. #409. Very Scarce Excellent Fresh Copy. Rare In this Condition.
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA, ILAB, Flemington, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$9019.30 + 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. 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.
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.