THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO AND OTHER STORIES. Translated from the Russian by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf [and D.H. Lawrence]

Bunin, I[van] A.; [D.H. Lawrence], S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf, trans.

Edité par Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, Richmond, 1922

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Richmond: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, [printed by William Clowes and Sons, Ltd., London and Beccles], 1922. [6 - including half-title], 86 pages, plus [2] pages ads. No errata slip present. Original publisher's decorative paper-covered boards with printed paper spine and cover labels. 18 x 12 cm. The spine label is sunned and slightly chipped with no impact on lettering; light wear to spine ends and a tiny tear to the head of the spine. The endpapers are slightly tanned; the text block shows mild, uniform toning. Still, a very good copy of a fragile volume. Bookseller's ticket of The Holliday Bookshop, New York (10 W. 47th St.), on the rear pastedown. PROVENANCE: This copy from the library of Irma Liebmann Harris (1885-1969), with her engraved bookplate on the front pastedown. [Harris was a member of a prominent Jewish family from Atlanta, Georgia, and a leading figure in the city's social and cultural life. She was the daughter of Isaac Liebman, founder and president of the Atlanta Paper Company (1886 1924). In 1908, she married Arthur Israel Harris (1881 1963), who succeeded Liebman as president of the company (1924 1946) and later served as chairman (1947 1957). The firm pioneered wet-strength packaging vital to the U.S. military during World War II and secured major contracts with Coca-Cola and other beverage companies. Irma Harris was a civic leader, serving with the Girl Scouts, the Atlanta USO during World War II, Travelers Aid, the Atlanta Council of Jewish Women, and as founder and president of the Peachtree Garden Club. An avid art and book collector, she read extensively in French and German. Her bookplate is signed in the plate "K. Merrill," likely the work of the American painter and etcher Katherine Merrill (1876 1962).] FIRST EDITION. Some copies are found with an errata slip tipped-in before the title page that states, "The first story in this book, 'The Gentleman from San Francisco,' is translated by D.H. Lawrence and S.S. Koteliansky. Owing to a mistake, Mr. Lawrence's name has been omitted from the title-page. The three other stories are translated by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf." The title story was first printed in 1915 in the Russian anthology, "Provo." It is set on the island of Capri, where the author lived the last few winters before the start of the First World War. Ivan Bunin later became the first Russian to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (1933). Woolmer, "A Checklist of the Hogarth Press, 1917-1946," 19. Roberts, "A Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence," B9.

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• Titre: THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO AND OTHER STORIES. Translated from the Russian by S.S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf [and D.H. Lawrence]
• Éditeur: Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at the Hogarth Press, Richmond
• Date de parution: 1922
• Édition: First edition.
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