First edition of one of the controversial writer's best novels, often considered his first masterpiece.
Very good plus.
Price: $1,500.00
"She had borne so long this cruelty of belonging to him and not being claimed by him."
Lawrence's semi-autobiographical third novel is the earliest — before THE RAINBOW, LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, and WOMEN IN LOVE — of the books that secured his reputation. An attractive copy of this essential Lawrence title.
Read more: Roberts and Poplawski, A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence (Third Edition), A4(1).
London: Duckworth & Co, 1913. 7.25''x 4.5''. Original full blue cloth with gilt titles. Roberts and Poplawski variant #1, with cancel title page. viii, 424, 20 [ads] pages. Elegant, contemporary ink gift inscription to front endpaper: "Please accept this and believe that I am mighty sorry not to be in on the lighting of the candles. Greetings ad the finest kind of Christmas to you all. John. 14/12/13." Book with slight lean. Faint rubbing to cloth. Some faint foxing and offsetting to endpapers. Small Brentano's Paris bookseller ticket to rear pastedown. Else clean and sound.
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