LITERATURE 26 Virginia Woolf’s Classic A Room Of One’s Own, Signed By Her 27WOOLF, Virginia. A Room of One’s Own. New York and London, 1929. Tall, slim octavo, original red cloth. $14,000 Signed limited first edition, one of 492 copies signed by Woolf in her characteristic purple ink on the half title. Woolf’s foundational essay on women and writing has become a classic feminist text: Woolf’s “aim was to establish a woman’s tradition, recognizable by its circumstances, subject-matter, and its distinct problems… A Room of One’s Own charted this vast territory with an air of innocent discovery which itself sharpens the case against induced ineffectiveness and ignorance that for so long clouded the counter-history of women” (Gordon, 182). “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.” Text clean and fine, just a hint of discoloration to cloth at edges. A near-fine signed copy. "A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction."
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