The Close Chaplet.
by RIDING, Laura, as Laura Riding Gottschalk
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,, 1926. A notoriously scarce Hogarth Press publication 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. 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. Woolmer 91.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 166394
- Title
- The Close Chaplet.
- Author
- RIDING, Laura, as Laura Riding Gottschalk
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- London: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press,
- Date Published
- 1926
Terms of Sale
Peter Harrington
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...