A first American edition of the groundbreaking feminist masterpiece advocating for women writers.

In 1929, Virginia Woolf published one of the most memorized, quoted, cherished, and embraced feminist call-to-arms in the English language with her sentence, “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction," in her similarly (but not exactly) titled book A Room of One’s Own.

Published in 1929, after delivering two lectures at women’s colleges in 1928, A Room of One’s Own is a triumphant tour through the Woolf’s premise, that writing and literature is a patriarchal construct that women are not allowed to fully participate in. In Room, Woolf conjures “Mary” an every-woman who goes to the British Museum to learn everything she can about the history of women writers. And she imagines the life of Shakespeare’s brilliant sister, Judith, who is thwarted by her gender and not able to reach her potential.

A heavenly edition to own with the cover art by Woolf’s painter-sister Vanessa Bell on cover, and more obtainable than its sister, the true first edition from Woolf’s own Hogarth Press across the pond.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1929. First US edition. 19.5 x 13.5 x 2. 199 pages. Hardback. Slight wear to cloth on top rear edge, exposing board underneath. Age toned dust jacket with small chips and minor marks including small stain to front right corner. Overall very good book in very good dust jacket.