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1922, predating the British edition, which was published in January 1924. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and upper cover gilt. With dust jacket. Housed in a blue morocco-backed blue cloth solander box. Spine ends slightly bumped, leaves uniformly tanned but a near- fine copy. Spine of dust jacket lightly tanned with extremities slightly frayed, repaired tear to rear panel, minor paper flaw to front panel and adhesive tape repairs to verso, else a very good dust jacket. ¶ Roberts & Poplawski A23a. £750 [148546] 59 LAWRENCE, D. H. Pansies. London: Privately printed for subscribers, by P. R. Stephensen, [August] 1929 The last of the “special copies” in blue morocco First unexpurgated edition, number 50 of 50 “special copies” (Roberts & Poplawski) signed and numbered by the author and bound in blue morocco. This privately printed edition contains 14 poems and Lawrence’s original preface which were censored from the first edition. It was published in August 1929, although June is the date on the title page, one month after the first edition published by Martin Secker. There was also an issue, limited to 500 copies, in paper wrappers. Octavo. Original light blue morocco, lettering to spine and front cover in gilt, Lawrence phoenix to rear wrapper in gilt, rules and ornaments to binding in blue, title page in brown and blue, top edge trimmed, others untrimmed. With original blue marbled card slipcase. Portrait frontispiece printed in sanguine. Spine slightly faded, soiling to binding, minor browning to leaves; a very good copy. Slipcase somewhat worn with abrasions and some fading. ¶ Roberts & Poplawski A47d. £2,750 [152430]
and black. Rubbing at spine ends, otherwise a fresh copy, contents clean. ¶ Dietz 50. Richard T. Gray, et al., A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia , 2005. £3,750 [153777] 58 LAWRENCE, D. H. England My England and Other Stories. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922 First edition, first printing, of Lawrence’s second collection of short stories. The American edition was published in October
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