I have the honor of presenting you with an exceptional item. This is the original first edition of the book from 1926. Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at The Hogarth Press 52 Tavistock Square, London, W.C. 1 On the first page there is a note with a dedication to her first husband dated November 2, 1926. It is not known whether the book with the dedication remained in her hands or whether it ever reached Louis Gottschalk. It is possible that this is the only book where Laura signed the name Gottschalk. It is unique on a global scale and now you have the opportunity to purchase this item through Catawiki. The book is in very good condition. Complete and has no loose pages. As you can see in the photos, the cover has stains, discoloration, tears. Inside is clean and very well preserved. "Laura Riding Jackson (born Laura Reichenthal; January 16, 1901 – September 2, 1991), best known as Laura Riding, was an American poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer. She was born in New York City to Nathaniel Reichenthal, a Jewish immigrant from Galicia, and Sadie (née Edersheim), and educated at Cornell University. She met historian Louis R. Gottschalk, then a graduate assistant at Cornell, and they married in 1920. She began to write poetry, publishing first (1923–26) under the name Laura Riding Gottschalk. She became associated with the Fugitives through Allen Tate, and they published her poems in The Fugitive magazine. They awarded her the Nashville Prize in 1924. Her marriage with Gottschalk ended in divorce in 1925, at the end of which year she went to England at the invitation of Robert Graves and his wife Nancy Nicholson. She would remain in Europe for nearly fourteen years. The excitement stirred by Laura Riding's poems is hinted at in Sonia Raiziss' later description: "When The Fugitive (1922–1925) flashed down the new sky of American poetry, it left a brilliant scatter of names: Ransom, Tate, Warren, Riding, Crane.... Among them, the inner circle and those tangent to it as contributors, there was no one quite like Laura Riding." ("An Appreciation," Chelsea 12 1962, 28.) Riding's first collection of poetry, The Close Chaplet, was published in 1926, and during the following year she assumed the surname Riding." Source: Wikipedia "Louis Reichenthal Gottschalk (February 21, 1899 – June 23, 1975) was an American historian, an expert on the Marquis de Lafayette and the French Revolution. He taught at the University of Chicago, where he was the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of History. During World War I, he served as an apprentice seaman from October 4, 1918, to November 11, 1918, a total of thirty eight days, at the Naval Unit at Cornell in Ithaca, New York. He taught briefly at the University of Illinois, and joined the University of Louisville faculty in 1923, but resigned in protest in 1927 after a friend and colleague in the history department was fired as part of an attempt by the university administration to abolish tenure. In 1927, he joined the University of Chicago, where he was promoted to full professor in 1935, and chaired the history department from 1937 to 1942. He was given his endowed chair, the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professorship of History, in 1959. In 1965, facing forced retirement from Chicago, he moved again to the University of Illinois at Chicago so that he could continue teaching. From 1929 to 1943, he served as assistant editor of The Journal of Modern History for three years and then as acting editor. He was president of the American Historical Association in 1953 and the second president of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Gottschalk was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1928 and 1954, and a Center for Advanced study of the Behavioral Sciences fellow in 1957. In 1953 he was honored as Chevalier in the Legion of Honor and in 1954 he won a Fulbright award. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Toulouse, Hebrew Union College, and the University of Louisville. In 1965 his students presented him with a festschrift, Ideas in History: Essays Presented to Louis Gottschalk by his Former Students, Duke University Press. Gottschalk was an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. A series of lectures is named for him at the University of Louisville. The annual $1000 Louis Gottschalk Prize, named in his honor, is given by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to the author of "an outstanding historical or critical study". Gottschalk met poet Laura Riding, then known by her maiden name, Laura Reichenthal, while she was a student and graduate assistant at Cornell University. They married on November 2, 1920, and he took her last name as his middle name. They divorced five years later, in 1925." Source: Wikipedia