Gottschalk, Laura Riding. The Close Chaplet. Hogarth Press, London, 1926.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Description: Riding's first book, Wexler A1a and Woolmer 91. Blue paper-covered boards with cream paper label on front board printed in black. Shows light soiling, sunning and wear at edges and spine, mild staining, but a very good to very good+ copy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 76 pp
Seller: Beasley Books, ABAA, ILAB, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$3900.51 + shipping
Description: First edition, sole impression, of Riding's rare first book, this a superb copy, uncommonly bright and unfaded, and exceptionally well-preserved in a handmade jacket. Provenance: from the library of art collector A. E. McVitty, Jr (1876-1948), with his ownership inscription, located and dated "Princeton, NJ, 1930", on the front free endpaper. Woolmer 91. Octavo. Original blue boards, white paper label to front cover printed in black. With a handmade paper dust jacket, titles pencilled to front cover in manuscript. Hint of toning to spine, very lightly worn at head, light foxing to edges and outer leaves, contents clean: an excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom