PANSIES (First edition - variant copy in the limited deluxe binding but unsigned)

D. H. Lawrence

Edité par Martin Secker, Covent Garden, London, 1929

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First edition - one of 250 deluxe copies - PLEASE NOTE THIS COPY IS UNSIGNED. Lawrence's final collection of poems, published the year before his death. The book was published in this deluxe binding with gilt-titled vellum spine and orange patterned paper-covered boards, and a trade edition with blue cloth spine and blue patterned paper-covered boards. ***Near fine with just light handling marks to the spine and boards. Top edge gilt - still bright. Corners of boards sharp with no bumps or creasing. Very light foxing to the fore edge of the page block. No reading lean to the binding. Spine tight. Interior pages clean and uncreased. No inscriptions - just an old bookseller's pencil price on the front pastedown. No off-setting or foxing. Binding tight with no looseness to the pages. ***PLEASE NOTE - many of the page gatherings remain uncut, indicating that the book was never read! There is a slight tear and rough edge to the final leaf at the fore-edge (which is uncut). ***Without the dustwrapper which was provided with this edition. ***154 pages. 226mm x 150mm. ***'David Herbert Lawrence (11 Sep 1885 - 2 Mar 1930) was an English writer and poet. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Lawrence's writing explores issues such as sexuality, emotional health, vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. His novels include "Sons and Lovers", "The Rainbow", "Women in Love" and "Lady Chatterley's Lover". Lawrence's opinions earned him many enemies and he endured official persecution, censorship, and misrepresentation of his creative work throughout the second half of his life, much of which he spent in a voluntary exile he called his "savage pilgrimage". At the time of his death, his public reputation was that of a pornographer who had wasted his considerable talents. E. M. Forster, in an obituary notice, challenged this widely held view, describing him as "the greatest imaginative novelist of our generation." Later, the literary critic F. R. Leavis championed both his artistic integrity and his moral seriousness. ***Lawrence wrote almost 800 poems, most of them relatively short. His first poems were written in 1904 and two of his poems, "Dreams Old" and "Dreams Nascent", were among his earliest published works in The English Review. It has been claimed that his early works clearly place him in the school of Georgian poets, and indeed some of his poems appear in the Georgian Poetry anthologies. However, James Reeves in his book on Georgian Poetry, notes that Lawrence was never really a Georgian poet. Indeed, later critics contrast Lawrence's energy and dynamism with the complacency of Georgian poetry. Just as the First World War dramatically changed the work of many of the poets who saw service in the trenches, Lawrence's own work dramatically changed, during his years in Cornwall. During this time, he wrote free verse influenced by Walt Whitman. He set forth his manifesto for much of his later verse in the introduction to New Poems. "We can get rid of the stereotyped movements and the old hackneyed associations of sound or sense. We can break down those artificial conduits and canals through which we do so love to force our utterance. We can break the stiff neck of habit [?] But we cannot positively prescribe any motion, any rhythm."' (Wiki) ***A true first edition of this final collection of poems by D. H. Lawrence to be published in his lifetime - a variant unsigned copy in the limoted edition deluxe binding, in nice collectable condition. A beautiful book, now almost 100 years old. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: PANSIES (First edition - variant copy in the limited deluxe binding but unsigned)
• Éditeur: Martin Secker, Covent Garden, London
• Date de parution: 1929
• Langue: anglais
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• Impression: First Impression
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Signed & Limited Editions
  • Literature
  • First Editions