Vanessa Bell. First Edition. Hardcover. Woolf, Virginia. A ROOM OF ONE’S OWN. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1932, 8vo., 172pp. Publisher’s original blue boards, titles to spine gilt. A near fine fresh copy [neat contemporary name on the ffe.] in the blue printed dust wrapper of the First Canadian Edition, first printing.
The most elusive of the First Editions having been printed in the US [possibly from Harcourt Brace supplied sheets] in an unknown but very small edition, [250 – 500 copies, a speculation].
A very nice example for the completist, the DJ has one repaired closed tear but is otherwise very bright & interesting in its yellowish tonal quality. Woolf’s major polemic against patriarchy, based loosely on two lectures she delivered, one at Newnham and the other at Girton.
Kirkpatrick and Clarke A12dd.
Woolf observed in her diary, “I shall be attacked for a feminist”. An increasingly uncommon & important Woolf title & 20th century literary highlight. Excellent copy. Noted in Kirkpatrick’s latest edition.
As far as we know, fewer than three or four copies in dust jackets have surfaced in the last 30 years. Making an exceptional addition to any collection!
