The Well of Loneliness by Hall, Radclyffe - 1928

London: Jonathan Cape, 1928 Gilt-stamped black cloth with black topstain in the scarce dust jacket, price-clipped, first issue with 'whip' to page 50, line 13, very attractively housed in a custom half-leather maroon cloth-lined clamshell box with 6 spine compartments separated by five raised bands, Very Good jacket lightly soiled with minimal edge wear & slight shallow chipping and minimal loss to spine ends, no tape repairs or tape remnants, one-inch closed tear top front panel at flap fold, boards show slight rubbed wear & soil rear panel with slight rounding to ends & corners, no markings, no foxing, binding tight pages clean, small faint stain to endpaper corner & faint offsetting to half-title, former owner's small handsome oval name label to pastedown corner (under dj flap), an excellent copy in a wonderful example of the ultra-rare dust jacket of this landmark novel, praised by the Woolfs and others but nonetheless suppressed for obscenity and its publisher prosecuted; 8vo; 512pp. First Edition. Hard Cover.