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New York: Adelphi Company, 1926. First American edition. 77 pp. Paper boards, printed label on front cover. Boards faded at extremities, corners a little rubbed, slight rubbing to spine exposing webbing. Interior clean with slight glue staining to gutter of preliminaries, bookplate on front pastedown. Riding's first book, first published by Leonard and Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press preceding this American edition, from the British sheets. Bibliographer Joyce Wexler noted of Riding's enigmatic verse, "She believed speech was the natural complement of thought; the possibility of inarticulate thought never existed for her. Her experience with words that were untrue made her loathe anything less than what she called the fidelity of word to thought, or truth. Poetry became the supreme value in her life because it offered a stable way to unite speech and thought." Wexler A1b.

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.