A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf - 1931

London: The Hogarth Press, 1931 . Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. 7.5" by 5". None. The first Uniform Edition of Virginia Woolf's critical treatise on the economic and social position of women in early twentieth century English society. The first edition thus, being the first impression issued as the 'Uniform Edition'. Kirkpatrick's bibliography notes that impressions six to twelve were issued as the Uniform Edition, with this effectively being the sixth impression of the first edition. Kirkpatrick A12b.In the scarce publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.First published in September 1929, A Room of One's Own is a reworking of two lectures delivered by Woolf at Cambridge University, expressing the essential point that 'a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction'.Contemporary inscription to rear free endpaper. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. A touch of fading to back strip head and tail, otherwise externally fine. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with minor loss to back strip head. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine