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WRITINGS OF D. H. LAWRENCE ***
A Bibliography of the Writings of D. H. Lawrence
[Illustration]
BOOKS by D. H. LAWRENCE
_Fiction: Novels_
THE WHITE PEACOCK (1911)
THE TRESPASSER (1912)
SONS AND LOVERS (1913)
THE RAINBOW (1915)
WOMEN IN LOVE (1920)
THE LOST GIRL (1920)
AARON’S ROD (1922)
KANGAROO (1923)
THE BOY IN THE BUSH (1924) (with M. L. Skinner)
_Fiction: Short Stories and Novelle_
THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER (1914)
ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND (1922)
THE LADYBIRD (1923)
ST. MAWR (_In preparation_)
_Poetry_
LOVE POEMS AND OTHERS (1913)
AMORES (1916)
LOOK! WE HAVE COME THROUGH! (1917)
NEW POEMS (1918)
BAY (1919)
TORTOISES (1921)
BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS (1923)
_Drama_
THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD (1914)
TOUCH AND GO (1920)
_Travel_
TWILIGHT IN ITALY (1916)
SEA AND SARDINIA (1921)
_Metaphysics_
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS (1921)
FANTASIA OF THE UNCONSCIOUS (1922)
_History_
MOVEMENTS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY (1921)
_Criticism_
STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE (1923)
_Translation_
MASTRO-DON GESUALDO, by Giovanni Verga (1923)
LITTLE NOVELS OF SICILY, by Giovanni Verga (1925)
[Illustration: D. H. Lawrence]
A Bibliography
of the Writings of
D. H. Lawrence
By
Edward D. McDonald
With a Foreword by D. H. Lawrence
[Illustration]
PHILADELPHIA
THE CENTAUR BOOK SHOP
1925
COPYRIGHT 1925 BY
THE CENTAUR BOOK SHOP
CONTENTS
PAGE
THE BAD SIDE OF BOOKS, BY D. H. LAWRENCE 9
INTRODUCTION 15
FIRST EDITIONS:
THE WHITE PEACOCK 23
THE TRESPASSER 26
LOVE POEMS AND OTHERS 28
SONS AND LOVERS 30
THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD 33
THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER AND OTHER STORIES 34
THE RAINBOW 36
TWILIGHT IN ITALY 39
AMORES 41
LOOK! WE HAVE COME THROUGH! 43
NEW POEMS 44
BAY 45
TOUCH AND GO 47
WOMEN IN LOVE 48
THE LOST GIRL 52
MOVEMENTS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY 54
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS 56
TORTOISES 60
SEA AND SARDINIA 61
AARON’S ROD 64
FANTASIA OF THE UNCONSCIOUS 65
ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND 67
THE LADYBIRD 70
STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE 71
KANGAROO 73
BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS 74
THE BOY IN THE BUSH 76
TRANSLATION:
MASTRO-DON GESUALDO 81
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS:
I. POETRY 85
II. PROSE 101
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS:
I. POETRY 111
II. PROSE 119
STUDIES AND REVIEWS:
I. IN BOOKS 131
II. IN PERIODICALS 137
THE BAD SIDE OF BOOKS
BY D. H. LAWRENCE
There doesn’t seem much excuse for me, sitting under a little cedar tree
at the foot of the Rockies, looking at the pale desert disappearing
westward, with hummocks of shadow rising in the stillness of incipient
autumn, this morning, the near pine trees perfectly still, the sunflowers
and the purple michaelmas daisies moving for the first time, this
morning, in an invisible breath of breeze, to be writing an introduction
to a bibliography.
Books to me are incorporate things, voices in the air, that do not
disturb the haze of autumn, and visions that don’t blot out the
sunflowers. What do I care for first or last editions? I have never read
one of my own published works. To me, no book has a date, no book has a
binding.
What do I care if “e” is somewhere upside down, or “g” comes from the
wrong fount? I really don’t.
And when I force myself to remember, what pleasure is there in that? The
very first copy of _The White Peacock_ that was ever sent out, I put into
my mother’s hands when she was dying. She looked at the outside, and then
at the title-page, and then at me, with darkening eyes. And though she
loved me so much, I think she doubted whether it could be much of a book,
since no-one more important than I had written it. Somewhere, in the
helpless privacies of her being, she had wistful respect for me. But for
me in the face of the world, not much. This David would never get a stone
across at Goliath. And why try? Let Goliath alone!—Anyway, she was beyond
reading my first immortal work. It was put aside, and I never wanted to
see it again. She never saw it again.
After the funeral, my father struggled through half a page, and it might
as well have been Hottentot.
“And what dun they gi’e thee for that, lad?”
“Fifty pounds, father.”
“Fifty pound!” He was dumbfounded, and looked at me with shrewd eyes, as
if I were a swindler. “Fifty pound! An’ tha’s niver done a day’s hard
work in thy life.”
I think to this day, he looks upon me as a sort of cleverish swindler,
who gets money for nothing: a sort of Ernest Hooley. And my sister says,
to my utter amazement: “You _always_ were lucky!”
Somehow, it is the actual corpus and substance, the actual paper and rag
volume of any of my works, that calls up these personal feelings and
memories. It is the miserable tome itself which somehow delivers me to
the vulgar mercies of the world. The voice inside is mine forever. But
the beastly marketable chunk of a published volume is a bone which every
dog presumes to pick with me.
William Heinemann published _The White Peacock_. I saw him once; and then
I realized what an immense favour he was doing me. As a matter of fact,
he treated me quite well.
I remember, at the last minute, when the book was all printed and ready
to bind: some even bound: they sent me in great haste a certain page
with a marked paragraph. Would I remove this paragraph, as it might be
considered “objectionable,” and substitute an exactly identical number
of obviously harmless words. Hastily I did so. And later, I noticed that
the two pages, on one of which was the altered paragraph, were rather
loose, not properly bound in to the book.—Only my mother’s copy had the
paragraph unchanged.
I have wondered often if Heinemann’s just altered the “objectionable” bit
in the first little batch of books they sent out, then left the others as
first printed. Or whether they changed all but the one copy they sent me
ahead.
It was my first experience of the objectionable. Later, William Heinemann
said he thought _Sons and Lovers_ one of the dirtiest books he had ever
read. He refused to publish it.—I should not have thought the deceased
gentleman’s reading had been so circumspectly narrow.
I forget the first appearance of _The Trespasser_ and _Sons and Lovers_.
I always hide the fact of publication from myself as far as possible. One
writes, even at this moment, to some mysterious presence in the air. If
that presence were not there, and one thought of even a single solitary
actual reader, the paper would remain forever white.
But I always remember how, in a cottage by the sea, in Italy, I re-wrote
almost entirely that play, _The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd_, right on the
proofs which Mitchell Kennerley had sent me. And he nobly forbore with me.
But then he gave me a nasty slap. He published _Sons and Lovers_ in
America, and one day, joyful, arrived a cheque for twenty pounds. Twenty
pounds in those days was a little fortune: and as it was a windfall, it
was handed over to Madame; the first pin-money she had seen. Alas and
alack, there was an alteration in the date of the cheque, and the bank
would not cash it. It was returned to Mitchell Kennerley, but that was
the end of it. He never made good, and never to this day made any further
payment for _Sons and Lovers_. Till this year of grace 1924, America has
had that, my most popular book, for nothing—as far as I am concerned.
Then came the first edition of _The Rainbow_. I’m afraid I set my rainbow
in the sky too soon, before, instead of after the deluge. Methuen
published that book, and he almost wept before the magistrate, when he
was summoned for bringing out a piece of indecent literature. He said
he did not know the dirty thing he had been handling, he had not read
the work, his reader had misadvised him—and _Peccavi! Peccavi!_ wept the
now be-knighted gentleman. Then around me arose such a fussy sort of
interest, as when a really scandalous bit of scandal is being whispered
about one. In print my fellow-authors kept scrupulously silent, lest a
bit of the tar might stick to them. Later Arnold Bennett and May Sinclair
raised a kindly protest. But John Galsworthy told me, very calmly and ex
cathedra, he thought the book a failure as a work of art.—They think as
they please. But why not wait till I ask them, before they deliver an
opinion to me? Especially as impromptu opinions by elderly authors are
apt to damage him who gives as much as him who takes.
There is no more indecency or impropriety in _The Rainbow_ than there is
in this autumn morning—I, who say so, ought to know. And when I open my
mouth, let no dog bark.
So much for the first edition of _The Rainbow_. The only copy of any
of my books I ever keep is my copy of Methuen’s _Rainbow_. Because
the American editions have all been mutilated. And this is almost my
favourite among my novels: this, and _Women in Love_. And I should really
be best pleased if it were never re-printed at all, and only those blue,
condemned volumes remained extant.
Since _The Rainbow_, one submits to the process of publication as to a
necessary evil: as souls are said to submit to the necessary evil of
being born into the flesh. The wind bloweth where it listeth. And one
must submit to the processes of one’s day. Personally, I have no belief
in the vast public. I believe that only the winnowed few can care. But
publishers, like thistle, must set innumerable seeds on the wind, knowing
most will miscarry.
To the vast public, the autumn morning is only a sort of stage background
against which they can display their own mechanical importance. But to
some men still the trees stand up and look around at the daylight, having
woven the two ends of darkness together into visible being and presence.
And soon, they will let go the two ends of darkness again, and disappear.
A flower laughs once, and having had his laugh, chuckles off into seed,
and is gone. Whence? Whither? Who knows, who cares? That little laugh of
achieved being is all.
So it is with books. To every man who struggles with his own soul in
mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.
First editions or forty-first are only the husks of it.
Yet if it amuses a man to save the husks of the flower that opened once
for the first time, one can understand that too. It is like the costumes
that men and women used to wear, in their youth, years ago, and which now
stand up rather faded in museums. With a jolt they reassemble for us the
day-to-day actuality of the by-gone people, and we see the trophies once
more of man’s eternal fight with inertia.
_Lobo_
_September 1st, 1924_
INTRODUCTION
This book, a record of the published writings of Mr. D. H. Lawrence,
follows the general plan of the _Centaur Bibliographies_ which have
preceded it. The opening section contains collations of the first issues
of Mr. Lawrence’s books, twenty-seven in all. Among these collations
is that of _Movements in European History_, a book written by Mr.
Lawrence, published under the _nom de plume_ Lawrence H. Davison, and
never heretofore openly attributed to him. Many of the collations are
accompanied by notes. Some of these discuss bibliographical points which
could not be adequately covered in the more technical descriptions of the
books; others estimate the relative scarcity of the various items, or
give information about interesting editions after the first; a few are
critical.
Since ten of Mr. Lawrence’s books were first published in America, some
consistent method had to be found for ranking the American “firsts” of
an English author. The plan adopted for this work was to list the first
publication of each book, regardless of place of publication, as the
real first edition of that book. It was difficult to escape the logic
and common-sense of this solution of a vexing problem. But because
the whimseys, prejudices, and sentiments of book-collectors are often
notoriously free from logical or sensible restraints, all of the first
English editions of Mr. Lawrence are fully described, even though some
of them appeared months after the corresponding American editions.
Preceding each collation, the year, the month, and, in important
instances, the day of publication are given. This information, for the
American books, was supplied especially by Mr. B. W. Huebsch and Mr.
Thomas Seltzer. Similar information about the English books was received
from Mr. Lawrence’s London publishers, but only in part; in the main, the
year and the month of publication were taken from the _English Catalogue
of Books_. Information from this source does not always agree absolutely
with publishers’ records; but it was usually accepted as sufficiently
accurate, since the month of publication at least is oftener a nice
refinement in a bibliography than a significant fact. So much for the
first section of this study.
The other sections are: Translation; Contributions to Books;
Contributions to Periodicals; Studies and Reviews. All but the first of
these require some special comment.
In cataloguing Mr. Lawrence’s writings every reasonable effort was made
(with what success cannot now be told) to insure a complete record of
his numerous and varied contributions to books. In this business it is
plainly impossible to be sure that some items have not been overlooked.
Without in the least attempting to disarm criticism, one may properly
call attention to the great difficulty of running down anthologies of
modern poetry and prose, to the making of which there seems, indeed, to
be no end. Added to this is the even greater difficulty of ascertaining
what these anthologies contain, without examining each one separately.
There simply isn’t an index of modern collections of poetry. And indices
of the short story leave much to be discovered elsewhere.
Nevertheless, under Contributions to Books are listed some thirty volumes
with Lawrence material. They are treated in two ways: the books which
contain Lawrence “first printings between boards” are fully described
and annotated; those which include reprintings only are not described,
but the extent and the source of Mr. Lawrence’s contributions to them
are noted. The former are genuine Lawrence items and should be in a
comprehensive collection of his writings.
In the fourth section of this study will be found an approximately
complete record of Mr. Lawrence’s contributions to periodicals. These
contributions are not, everything considered, numerous. There are reasons
for this. It has not been Mr. Lawrence’s custom to publish novels
serially. He is not a voluminous writer of short stories, contenting
himself, evidently, with being a great one. He has never been much given
to reviewing, or to any other sort of hack-writing. Plainly, these are
not Mr. Lawrence’s ways of keeping the pot boiling.
But numerous or not, the contributions to periodicals are often of
great interest—even for reasons unrelated to technical bibliography.
For example, many American reviewers of _Studies in Classic American
Literature_, published August, 1923, were bewildered by what they
considered a surprise attack along our Parnassian front. Others, less
alarmed but scarcely more informed, found a direct connection between
the book and Mr. Lawrence’s visits to our shores in 1922 and 1923.
“Obviously,” they seemed to reason, “the author of this volume came to
_These States_ for a first-hand view of our literary shrines, and here is
the critical account of his pilgrimage.” All very interesting, if true.
In point of fact, long before 1923 many of the studies, in their first
forms, lay quietly inurned, but recoverable, in the files of the _English
Review_. The earliest study goes back to November, 1918, and most of the
others followed hard upon the first.
There is, too, something for the collector among the contributions to
periodicals. Items of particular interest to him are commented upon. In
this connection, a special effort was made to list the Lawrence material
in out-of-the-way magazines. Some of this sort to which Mr. Lawrence
contributed were, alas, not long for this hard world. _The Blue Review_,
_The Signature_, and _The Seven Arts_ are typical examples of such
ephemera.
Although perhaps a majority of Mr. Lawrence’s contributions to
periodicals were subsequently used in certain of his works, many remain
uncollected. The notes which follow the separate items will usually
enable the curious to distinguish the collected from the uncollected.
They will also show that Mr. Lawrence often altered the titles of poems
and stories before including them in his books. But there the notes
stop. No consistent effort was made to deal with the larger phase of Mr.
Lawrence’s textual revisions. That lies outside the scope of this volume.
However, a comparison, say, of the stories in _The Prussian Officer_ with
their first published forms will show that Mr. Lawrence’s revisions go
much beyond titles.
Regarding the chronological lists of Studies and Reviews little need
be said—except perhaps in apology. They do not, strictly, belong in a
volume of this sort, but were finally included for whatever value they
might have as an index to the critical comment on Mr. Lawrence’s writings
since the publication of _The White Peacock_. The lists make no claim
to completeness. Nevertheless, they are probably more inclusive than
they should be. Along with much that is fine, they contain much that is
pointless and futile. But this is not surprising: the average critic
sitting in judgment of Mr. Lawrence is quickly _au bout de son latin_.
Such, then, is the general plan of this bibliographical study. Designed
primarily to meet the needs of Lawrence collectors, it will also be
serviceable to students of what is now the most brilliant and challenging
career in really contemporary English literature. And it may have a
further use. Although Mr. Lawrence is quite without the sort of pride
in authorship that busies itself with shapes of books or records of
publications, he may nevertheless find in this glorified card-index some
usefulness. If so, I shall be repaid for the making of it.
And now a word of thanks for help on this book must go especially to Mr.
Lawrence, to Mr. Harold T. Mason, to Mr. David Jester, Jr., and to Mr.
Carroll Frey. Mr. Lawrence first told me about _Movements in European
History_, and he has generously forwarded my work in other ways. The
intrepid publishers of this volume made it possible for me to examine
duplicates of the various Lawrence items, and Mr. Mason’s knowledge of
the investiture of the books herein described was frequently drawn upon.
Mr. Frey helped with the typography—which in a book like the present
is no small matter. I am also indebted to a number of people, both in
England and America, for replies to many sorts of questions.
An appropriate conclusion to this introduction would be, I have no doubt,
a solemn recital of the General Confession. But there’s no good here
prating of things done or left undone. There simply isn’t. Bibliolatry
has its virtues, but sweet charity is not among them. Indeed she’s not.
All this by way of letting the users of this book know that reports of
my sins of omission and commission will be received with true stoical
fortitude.
EDWARD D. MCDONALD
_Philadelphia_
_October 15, 1924_
FIRST EDITIONS
(1)
THE WHITE PEACOCK
Published January 1911
THE / WHITE PEACOCK / By / D. H. Lawrence / (_publisher’s device_) /
London / William Heinemann / 1911
COLLATION:—pp. iv + 496, consisting of half-title (with list of
_New 6s. Novels_—eleven items—in upper left of verso), pp. (i,
ii); title-page, as above (with _Copyright, London, 1911, by
William Heinemann, and Washington, U.S.A._, / _by Duffield and
Company_ at foot of verso), pp. (iii, iv); fly-leaf, with _Part
I_ and signature _1_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text,
pp. 3-496. There is no printer’s imprint. There are divisional
fly-leaves, which mark the three parts of the book, at pp. (1,
2), (189, 190), (359, 360). Pp. (2), (188), (190), (358), (360)
blank.
Crown 8vo, 7⁷⁄₁₆ × 4¾; issued in greenish dark blue cloth; front cover
has across top three-panel rectangular form in black, middle panel of
which encloses lettering and ornamentation in white as follows: _The
White_ / _Peacock_ / (three dots) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_; end panels
enclose conventionalized rose-bush designs in black. Backbone ornamented
and lettered across in gilt: (heavy line) / _The White_ / _Peacock_ /
(three dots) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / (heavy line) / (heavy line) /
_Heinemann_ / (heavy line). Back cover has at center blind stamp of
publisher’s device. Top and fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed.
End-papers white.
_The White Peacock_, Mr. Lawrence’s first book, was published by William
Heinemann from plates imported from Duffield and Company, New York. The
omission of the English printer’s imprint was, however, accidental, not
intentional. The exact date of the publication of the English edition
was January 20, 1911, while that of the American issue was January
19. It is evident, therefore, that _The White Peacock_ was meant to
appear simultaneously in England and America. The book was, of course,
manufactured late in 1910, and copyright proceedings were begun in both
countries in this year, which is, in fact, given in the copyright notice
in the American book.
The first binding order on the English _White Peacock_, I am informed by
William Heinemann, Ltd., was for 750 copies. The second binding order was
for a like number. The two bindings differ on one point. The first has a
blind stamp of the Heinemann device, the wind-mill, on the back cover;
the second has not. However, both “cases,” which are otherwise alike,
contain the first printed sheets. The inadvertent omission of the stamp
from the second binding is the sort of variation which often occurs when
the same sheets are bound at different times.
Copies of the first edition of _The White Peacock_ are now genuinely
scarce. The book is seldom listed in catalogues, where later Lawrence
items are usually to be found. It is well known that certain books of
comparatively recent publication tend, for one reason or another, to
disappear. These are often first books, the initial editions of which
are seldom large. _The White Peacock_, a notable first novel, is a good
example of this tendency. I believe that the Heinemann _White Peacock_
is as scarce as the Methuen _Rainbow_, universally regarded as the
rarest Lawrence item. Certain it is that I have seen more copies of _The
Rainbow_ in fine condition than I have seen of _The White Peacock_ in any
condition.
Collectors who have a copy of this book, and who are curious about Mr.
Lawrence’s comment on the textual change made after the sheets were
bound, will probably find a tipped-in leaf at pages 229 and 230. I have
examined only four copies. All of these had the inserted leaf. I suspect
the bowdlerizing was efficient and thorough, but I cannot, under the
circumstances, be sure. However, in connection with this textual change
appears my reason for including a collation of the American first edition
of this book. The Duffield text is unaltered, as a comparison of the
English and American editions of 1911 will show.
(1A)
THE WHITE PEACOCK
Published January 1911
THE / WHITE PEACOCK / A Novel / By / D. H. Lawrence / (_publishers’
device_) / New York / Duffield & Company / 1911
COLLATION:—pp. viii + 496, consisting of blank leaf, pp. (i,
ii); half-title (verso blank), pp. (iii, iv); title-page, as
above (with _Copyright, 1910, by_ / _Duffield & Company_ / (a
line) / _The Trow Press, New York_ on verso), pp. (v, vi);
table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp. (vii, viii); fly-leaf,
with _Part I_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp.
3-496. There are divisional fly-leaves, which mark the three
parts of the book, at pp. (1, 2), (189, 190), (359, 360). Pp.
(2), (188), (190), (358), (360) blank.
Crown 8vo, 7⅜ × 5; issued in light blue cloth; front cover ornamented and
lettered in white and dark blue as follows: (a spread peacock, in white
and dark blue) / (a line, in dark blue) / (a heavier broken line, in the
same) / _The White Peacock_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ / (all lettering in white,
and is with all ornamentation surrounded by one-line border in dark
blue). Backbone lettered in white: _The_ / _White_ / _Peacock_ / (a line)
/ _Lawrence_ / _Duffield_ Back cover blank. All edges cut. End-papers
white.
(2)
THE TRESPASSER
Published May 1912
THE TRESPASSER / By / D. H. Lawrence / (_publishers’ device_) / London:
Duckworth & Co. / Henrietta Street, Covent Garden / 1912
COLLATION:—pp. iv + 292, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _All rights
reserved._ in center of verso), pp. (iii, iv); text, pp.
(1)-292. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p.
292 as follows: _Billing and Sons, Ltd., Printers, Guildford_
At end of volume there is 20-page, numbered but undated,
catalogue of _A Selection from_ / _Duckworth & Co.’s_ / _List
of Publications_
Crown 8vo, 7¼ × 4⅞; issued in dark blue cloth; front cover has, at top
and bottom only, thick line border, with thin inner line—both in blind;
and inside of gilt circle at center is lettered in gilt as follows: _The_
/ _Trespasser_ / _By the Author of_ / _“The White_ / _Peacock”_ Backbone
ornamented and lettered across in gilt: (one thick, one thin line at
top) / _The_ / _Trespasser_ / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / _Duckworth_ / (one
thin, one thick line at bottom). Back cover has at center blind stamp of
publishers’ device, but is otherwise blank. All edges cut. End-papers
white.
Dealers in modern first editions call _The Trespasser_ a “hard” book.
It _is_ scarce, but the dealers protest too much. Surely they are not
correct in assuming, as they frequently do, that _The Trespasser_ is as
scarce as the Heinemann _White Peacock_, even if good copies of it are
difficult to come by—as they certainly are.
Although the above is the genuine first issue of _The Trespasser_, there
are extant copies identical with it on the inside, but in a light green
“case,” lettered on the front in black and on the backbone in gilt—except
_Duckworth_, which is in black. The curious who have at hand a first
edition of Mr. W. H. Davies’ _Beggars_, also published by Duckworth, will
know the cover-design of _The Trespasser_ in green. The texture and the
color of the cloths differ somewhat. I know nothing about this unusual
form, except that the copy I have is on the inside, page for page,
identical with the above. One other copy has been reported to me, by Mr.
Arthur Rogers, an English dealer.
The publishers (their file copies of _The Trespasser_ having disappeared)
are a bit vague, but they suggest that perhaps copies for the Colonial
market were bound in green. This may be the answer; but since the green
“case” is certainly more elaborate, and was probably more expensive than
the blue, one suspects the former may have been a “trial” binding.
The first American edition of _The Trespasser_ was published, from the
Duckworth sheets, by Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1912.
(3)
LOVE POEMS AND OTHERS
Published February 1913
LOVE (_dot_) POEMS / AND (_dot_) OTHERS / By (_dot_) D. H. Lawrence /
Author of “The White Peacock” “The Trespasser” / Duckworth (_dot_) and
(_dot_) Co. / Covent (_dot_) Garden (_dot_) London / MCMXIII
COLLATION:—pp. 6 (preceded by blank leaf) + lxiv, consisting
of half-title (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); title-page, as
above (with _Several of these Poems have_ / _appeared in the
“English_ / _Review,” the “Nation,” and_ / _the “Westminster
Gazette.”_ in center of verso), pp. (3, 4); table of
_Contents_, pp. (5, 6); text, pp. i-(lxiv). Printers’ imprint,
beneath line, at foot of p. (lxiv) as follows: _Turnbull and
Spears, Printers, Edinburgh_
Large cr. 8vo, 8⅝ × 6; issued in dark blue cloth; front cover has
one-line border in blind, and at upper left is lettered in gilt as
follows: _Love Poems_ / _and Others_ / _By_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ Backbone
ornamented and lettered across in gilt: (one thick, one thin line at top)
/ _Love_ / _Poems_ / _and_ / _Others_ / (a line) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_
/ _Duckworth_ / (one thin, one thick line at bottom). Back cover has in
lower left corner blind stamp of publishers’ device, but is otherwise
blank. Top edges gilt; fore and bottom edges cut. End-papers white.
_Love Poems and Others_ was Mr. Lawrence’s third book, and his first
volume of poetry. As to the comparative scarcity of this first edition
opinion differs greatly. Of the six books of poems (not counting _Bay_, a
private press volume) by Mr. Lawrence, I am inclined to rank _Love Poems_
third in scarcity. I suspect that both _Amores_ (first issue, with the
catalogue) and _Look! We Have Come Through!_ are scarcer than this item.
Be that as it may, _Love Poems_ is far from common. Fortunately, however,
the book was stoutly built, and copies of the first edition, when they do
turn up, are usually in quite satisfactory condition—satisfactory even to
collectors.
The first American edition of _Love Poems and Others_ was published, from
the Duckworth sheets, by Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1913.
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SONS AND LOVERS
Published May 1913
SONS AND LOVERS / By / D. H. Lawrence / Author of / “Love Poems,” “The
White Peacock,” “The Trespasser” / (_publishers’ device_) / London:
Duckworth & Co. / Henrietta Street, Covent Garden / 1913
COLLATION:—pp. viii + 424, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _All rights
reserved_ in center of verso), pp. (iii, iv); dedication,
_To_ / _Edward Garnett_ (verso blank), pp. (v, vi); table of
_Contents_ (verso blank), pp. vii, (viii); text, pp. (1)-423.
Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. 423 as
follows: _Billing and Sons, Ltd., Printers, Guildford_ P. (424)
blank. At end of volume there is 20-page, numbered but undated,
catalogue of _A Selection from_ / _Duckworth & Co.’s_ / _List
of Publications_
Crown 8vo, 7¼ × 4¾; issued in dull dark blue cloth; front cover has
two-line border in blind, and is lettered and ornamented in gilt as
follows: _Sons and Lovers_ / (three dots) _D. H. Lawrence_ (three dots).
Backbone ornamented and lettered across in gilt: (two lines at top) /
_Sons_ / _and_ / _Lovers_ / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / _Duckworth_ / (two
lines at bottom). Back cover has in lower left corner blind stamp of
publishers’ device, but is otherwise blank. All edges cut. End-papers
white.
_Sons and Lovers_, now universally acclaimed one of the great novels of
recent years, appeals strongly to many collectors who go in for modern
first editions. The significance of the book was realized soon after
its publication, and copies of the initial printing were evidently
read, passed around, and reread. As a result, copies of this edition
in excellent state are now seldom seen. Most show signs of hard use.
Nevertheless, all Lawrence collectors entertain the hope of having some
fine day an _editio princeps_ of _Sons and Lovers_ in what they can
superciliously call “pristine condition.” The incorrigibly optimistic
want even the original dust-cover.
While waiting for this perfect copy, some collectors may do well to
make sure that their present copies are of the first issue; for _Sons
and Lovers_ is rather a tricky item. A later issue in lighter blue
cloth, without date on title-page, must not be confused with the real
first issue described above, the cloth of which is an unusual dark
blue—somewhat lighter than navy blue.
The first American edition of _Sons and Lovers_ was published, from new
plates, by Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1913.
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THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD
Published April 1, 1914
THE WIDOWING OF / MRS. HOLROYD / A Drama in Three Acts / By / D. H.
Lawrence / (_publisher’s device_) / New York / Mitchell Kennerley / MCMXIV
COLLATION:—pp. x + 94 (preceded and followed by two blank
leaves), consisting of fly-leaf, with series-title, _The
Modern Drama Series_ / _Edited by Edwin Björkman_ at head,
and _The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ at foot
of recto (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above
(with _Copyright 1914 by_ / _Mitchell Kennerley_ / _The_
(dot) _Plimpton_ (dot) _Press_ / _Norwood_ (dot) _Mass_ (dot)
_U_ (dot) _S_ (dot) _A_ on verso), pp. (iii, iv); table of
_Contents_ (verso blank), pp. (v, vi); _Introduction_, by
Edwin Björkman, pp. (vii)-x; divisional half-title (with list
of _Persons_ on verso), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. (3)-93; p. (94)
blank.
Crown 8vo, 7⅜ × 5; issued in red cloth; front cover has one-line border
in blind, and is lettered in blind as follows: _The Modern Drama Series_
/ _Edited by Edwin Björkman_ Backbone lettered across in gilt: _D. H._
/ _Law-_ / _rence_ / (small ornament) / _The_ / _Widow-_ / _ing_ / _of
Mrs._ / _Hol-_ / _royd_ / _Mitchell_ / _Kennerley_ (The hyphens in
lettering on backbone slant upward.) Back cover blank. All edges cut.
End-papers white.
The first of Mr. Lawrence’s two published plays. It is not generally
realized that the American issue of _The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd_
preceded the English, which was, as a matter of fact, made from the
Kennerley sheets. A not overly close examination of a Duckworth copy
of this book will show that the fly-leaf with the series-title, etc.
on recto, was cut out after the sheets had been sewed together. This
accounts for the slight difference in the pagination of the two editions.
Then, also, the matter on the reverse side of the Duckworth title-page
clearly indicates that all of the sheets were American.
The first edition of _The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd_ was one thousand
copies. Five hundred of these were sent to Duckworth and Company, and
were by this house bound in the dark blue “case” described below. There
is no certain way of telling which of the two books is the scarcer; but
I should not be surprised to find that copies of the American issue are
the harder to come by—at least, in good state. The English book still
performs the trick of turning up over here in quite new condition.
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THE WIDOWING OF MRS. HOLROYD
Published April 1914
THE WIDOWING OF / MRS. HOLROYD / A Drama in Three Acts / By / D. H.
Lawrence / London / Duckworth & Co. / 3, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden,
W. C. / 1914
COLLATION:—pp. x + 94 (preceded by one blank leaf not reckoned
in pagination, followed by two), consisting of blank leaf,
pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _Copyright 1914 by_ /
_Mitchell Kennerley_ / _The_ (dot) _Plimpton_ (dot) _Press_ /
_Norwood_ (dot) _Mass_ (dot) _U_ (dot) _S_ (dot) _A_ on verso),
pp. (iii, iv); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp. (v, vi);
_Introduction_, by Edwin Björkman, pp. (vii)-x; divisional
half-title (with list of _Persons_ on verso), pp. (1, 2);
text, pp. (3)-93; p. (94) blank. At end of volume there is
20-page, numbered but undated, catalogue of _A Selection from_
/ _Duckworth & Co.’s_ / _List of Publications_
Crown 8vo, 7⅜ × 5; issued in dark blue cloth; front cover has two-line
border in blind, and is lettered and ornamented in gilt as follows: _The
Widowing_ / _of Mrs. Holroyd_ / (two dots) _D. H. Lawrence_ (two dots).
Lettered up the backbone in gilt: _The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd_ Back
cover has in lower left corner blind stamp of publishers’ device, but is
otherwise blank. All edges cut. End-papers white.
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THE PRUSSIAN OFFICER AND OTHER STORIES
Published December 1914
THE / PRUSSIAN OFFICER / AND OTHER STORIES / By / D. H. Lawrence /
(_publishers’ device_) / London / Duckworth & Co. / 3 Henrietta Street,
Covent Garden
COLLATION:—pp. viii + 312, consisting of blank leaf, pp. (i,
ii); half-title (with list of four books _By the Same Author_,
enclosed in one-line box, in center of verso), pp. (iii, iv);
title-page, as above (with _Published December 1914_ in center
of verso), pp. (v, vi); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp.
(vii, viii); text, pp. (1)-310. Printers’ imprint at foot of p.
310 as follows: _William Brendon and Son, Ltd._ / _Printers,
Plymouth_ Pp. (311, 312) are occupied by advertisements of four
books _By D. H. Lawrence_. At end of volume there is 16-page,
numbered but undated, catalogue of _A List of the Libraries_ /
_and Series of Copyright_ / _Books Published by_ / _Duckworth &
Co._
CONTENTS: The Prussian Officer; The Thorn in the Flesh; Daughters of the
Vicar; A Fragment of Stained Glass; The Shades of Spring; Second Best;
The Shadow in the Rose Garden; Goose Fair; The White Stocking; A Sick
Collier; The Christening; Odour of Chrysanthemums.
Crown 8vo, 7⁵⁄₁₆ × 4⅞; issued in dark blue cloth; front cover has
two-line border in blind, and is lettered and ornamented in gilt as
follows: _The Prussian Officer_ / (three dots) _D. H. Lawrence_ (three
dots). Backbone ornamented and lettered across in gilt: (two lines
at top) / _The_ / _Prussian_ / _Officer_ / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ /
_Duckworth_ / (two lines at bottom). Back cover has in lower left corner
blind stamp of publishers’ device, but is otherwise blank. All edges cut.
End-papers white.
_The Prussian Officer_ was Mr. Lawrence’s first volume of short
stories. The first edition of this book exists in two several issues.
The difference between them is marked, not by the binding, but by
the catalogues at the end of the volumes. One of these catalogues is
described above; the other, twenty instead of sixteen pages, is: _A
Selection from_ / _Duckworth & Co’s._ / _List of Publications_
The publishers were unable to say which catalogue was in the first issue,
and showed what amounted to alarm that anyone should be interested in the
matter. They evidently regarded their correspondent as mildly insane.
Publishers are of two varieties: the sort who understand the collector
not at all, and the sort who understand him too, too well.
I have examined five copies of the book. All but one had the catalogue
mentioned in this note. What deduction may safely be made from this?
Perhaps, that copies of the issue which I have collated are the scarcer.
But are they also necessarily the earlier? One may well have doubts about
that.
A somewhat detailed study of the two types of catalogues in Duckworth
books between 1913 and 1916 is unfruitful, except to show that the
catalogue mentioned in this discussion occurs in _Sons and Lovers_
(1913), and that in the collation above appears in _Amores_ (1916). But
since the latter list seems to contain no book published after 1914, it
might properly occupy space in a volume brought out in December of that
year. The question of the real first issue of _The Prussian Officer_
must, therefore, remain unsettled. One thing is certain: both books here
discussed are of the first edition. A later issue, in somewhat lighter
blue cloth, lettered in black, must not be confused with either.
The first American edition of _The Prussian Officer_ was published, from
the Duckworth sheets, by B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1916.
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THE RAINBOW
Published September 30, 1915
THE RAINBOW / By / D. H. Lawrence / Author of “Sons and Lovers” / Methuen
& Co. Ltd. / 36 Essex Street W. C. / London
COLLATION:—pp. viii + 468, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _First
Published in 1915_ in center of verso), pp. (iii, iv);
dedication, _To Else_ (verso blank), pp. v, (vi); table of
_Contents_ (verso blank), pp. vii, (viii); text, pp. (1)-463.
Printers’ imprint in center of p. (464) as follows: _Printed in
Great Britain_ / _by Hazell, Watson and Viney, Ld.,_ / _London
and Aylesbury._ P. (465) is occupied by list, dated _Autumn,
1915_, of _Methuen’s Popular Novels_ Pp. (466-468) are occupied
by publishers’ brief résumés of the novels listed on p. (465).
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in bluish dark green cloth; front cover has
one-line border in blind, and is lettered across top in blind as follows:
_The Rainbow_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ Backbone ornamented and lettered across
in gilt: (flower and leaf design) / _The_ / _Rainbow_ / (single flower
design) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / (same design as at top, augmented by
leaf) / _Methuen_ Back cover blank. Top and fore edges cut; bottom edges
untrimmed. End-papers white.
_The Rainbow_, universally considered by dealers and collectors alike
Mr. Lawrence’s scarcest book, was published, according to _The English
Catalogue_, in October, 1915. The publishers, however, said that the
exact date of issue was September 30, 1915. And with that they stopped,
for they seemed unwilling to give me any more information about the book.
Altogether wry was the letter they wrote. But from other sources it is
evident that _The Rainbow_ was in circulation just six weeks before
action for its suppression was successfully carried on November 13,
1915. The curious may consult a communication by G. W. de Tunzelmann,
published in the _Athenæum_, November 20, 1915, which, if accurate, fixes
the date of suppression.
Regarding the circumstances attending the action against the publishers,
a letter by Mr. Gilbert Cannan, New York _Tribune_, January 10, 1920, is
worth reading. Mr. Cannan asserts that after proceedings were brought
“the publishers, taking alarm and not understanding what had happened,
did not defend.” This is substantially what Mr. Lawrence says in his
preface to the present volume. The upshot of it was the publishers were
fined and ordered to destroy their stock of the book, after which, one
may suppose, all went “on with the War.” Whether such copies as the
publishers had on hand were committed to the tender mercies of the public
hangman, I do not know. At any rate, it may be safely assumed that
Methuen & Co., Ltd., complied fully with every mandate of the court, and
that they distributed no copies of _The Rainbow_ after November 13, 1915.
In his preface above Mr. Lawrence mentions the protests of Mr. Arnold
Bennett and Miss May Sinclair against the suppression of _The Rainbow_.
I regret my inability to give specific references to the time and place
of these protests. But all indices failed me, and both Mr. Bennett and
Miss Sinclair wrote that they could not now tell me where to look for
their parts in the controversy. Both wrote against the suppression, but
apparently in letters—not in special articles. In her reply to my inquiry
Miss Sinclair gave this indication of her position: “I said that the
suppression of this book was a crime, the murder of a beautiful thing.”
The first American edition of _The Rainbow_ was published, from new
plates, by B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1916. Subsequently Mr. Huebsch
brought the book out in a more expensive form, but the text remained the
same as that of the first American edition. These are the expurgated
forms to which Mr. Lawrence refers. _The Rainbow_, with the Huebsch text,
was published by Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1924.
It will be seen from all this that the complete text of the novel which
lies so close to the affections of its author is to be found only in
copies like the one collated above. The Methuen _Rainbow_ is, I need
hardly say, a very scarce book. Whether or not it is scarcer than the
Heinemann _White Peacock_ must remain a matter of opinion.
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TWILIGHT IN ITALY
Published June 1916
TWILIGHT IN ITALY / By / D. H. Lawrence / (_publishers’ device_) / London
/ Duckworth and Co. / 3 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, W. C.
COLLATION:—pp. viii + 312, consisting of half-title (with
list of six _Works by D. H. Lawrence_ at head of verso), pp.
(i, ii); title-page, as above (with _First published 1916_ in
center of verso), pp. (iii, iv); acknowledgement—three lines
(verso blank), pp. v, (vi); table of _Contents_ (verso blank),
pp. vii, (viii); divisional fly-leaf, with _The Crucifix across
the_ / _Mountains_ on recto (verso blank), pp. 1, (2); text,
pp. 3-(311). Printers imprint at foot of p. (311) as follows:
_Printed by R. & R. Clark, Limited, Edinburgh._ P. (312)
blank. At end of volume are two separate 16-page catalogues:
the first contains _Messrs. Duckworth & Co.’s_ / _Spring_ /
_Announcements_ / _1916_ The second, _A List of the Libraries_
/ _and Series of Copyright_ / _Books Published by_ / _Duckworth
& Co._ There are divisional fly-titles before the major
divisions of the work at pp. 1, 27, (223), (263). Pp. (2),
(28), (222), (224), (262), (264) blank.
CONTENTS: The Crucifix across the Mountains; On the Lago di Garda—I. The
Spinner and the Monks, II. The Lemon Gardens, III. The Theatre, IV. San
Gaudenzio, V. The Dance, VI. Il Duro, VII. John; Italians in Exile; The
Return Journey.
Crown 8vo, 7⁵⁄₁₆ × 4¾; issued in dark blue cloth; front cover has
two-line border in blind, and is lettered and ornamented in gilt as
follows: _Twilight in Italy_ / (three dots) _D. H. Lawrence_ (three
dots). Backbone ornamented and lettered across in gilt: (two lines at
top) / _Twilight_ / _in_ / _Italy_ / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / _Duckworth_
/ (two lines at bottom). Back cover has in lower left corner blind stamp
of publishers’ device, but is otherwise blank. All edges cut. End-papers
white.
_Twilight in Italy_ was Mr. Lawrence’s first book of non-fictional
prose. Copies of the first edition of this book are scarce, and they are
exceedingly hard to get in fine condition. The cloth is usually faded
and the gilt dull. I have seen at various times perhaps a half-dozen
copies. They were all very much the same: that is to say, none was in
fine state. I suspect the book never looked quite new, and that it is one
of the many illustrations of how the War affected adversely workmanship
in the bookmaking industry. Be that as it may, _Twilight in Italy_ is
worth having in any condition. It should be more widely read. Like _Sea
and Sardinia_, it is too often merely a name, even to admirers of Mr.
Lawrence’s other work.
The first American edition of _Twilight in Italy_ was published, from the
Duckworth sheets, by B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1916.
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AMORES
Published July 1916
AMORES / Poems / By / D. H. Lawrence / (_publishers’ device_) / London /
Duckworth and Company / 3 Henrietta Street, W. C.
COLLATION:—pp. viii + 140, consisting of title-page, as above
(verso blank), pp. (i, ii); dedication, _To_ / _Ottoline
Morrell_ (verso blank), pp. (iii, iv); table of _Contents_, pp.
v-vii; p. (viii) blank; text, pp. 1-(138). Printers’ imprint,
beneath thin line, at foot of p. (138) as follows: _Printed
by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty_ / _at the
Edinburgh University Press_ Pp. (139, 140) blank. At end of
volume there is 16-page, numbered but undated, catalogue of _A
List of the Libraries_ / _and Series of Copyright_ / _Books
Published by_ / _Duckworth & Co._
Crown 8vo, 7¼ × 4⅞; issued in dark blue cloth; front cover blank;
backbone ornamented and lettered across in gilt: (two lines at top) /
_Amores_ / _Poems_ / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / _Duckworth_ / (two lines at
bottom). Back cover has in lower left corner blind stamp of publishers’
device. Top and fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
_Amores_, Mr. Lawrence’s second volume of poems, is a troublesome item.
The first edition exists in two states. The first has the 16-page
catalogue; the second does not. At no place in either issue is there a
date. Copies with the catalogue would seem to be rare. At least I have so
concluded after a sustained investigation. Copies without the catalogue
are “easy,” and these are commonly sold—perhaps naturally enough—as of
the first issue, which they are not.
The first American edition of _Amores_ was published, from new plates,
by B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1916. At least two differences between
it and the above ought to be noted. First, in the American edition
the dedication is extended, and reads: _To_ / _Ottoline Morrell_ /
_in tribute_ / _to her noble_ / _and independent sympathy_ / _and her
generous understanding_ / _these poems_ / _are gratefully dedicated_ / .
Second, the poem called “Disagreeable Advice” in the above, appears in
the American edition under the happier title “Irony.”
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LOOK! WE HAVE COME THROUGH!
Published December 1917
LOOK! WE HAVE / COME THROUGH! / By / D. H. Lawrence / Published by Chatto
& Windus / London MCMXVII
COLLATION:—pp. 168, consisting of half-title (verso blank), pp.
(1, 2); title-page, as above (with _Some of these poems have
appeared in_ / _the “English Review” and in “Poetry,”_ / _also
in the “Georgian Anthology” and_ / _the “Imagist Anthology”_
above center of verso), pp. (3, 4); _Foreword_—eleven lines
(verso blank), pp. (5, 6); table of _Contents_, pp. (7-9);
_Argument_—eleven lines, p. (10); text, pp. 11-(163). Printers’
imprint above center of p. (164) as follows: _Printed at_ /
_the Complete Press_ / _West Norwood_ / _London_. Pp. (165-167)
are occupied by advertisements, chiefly of volumes of poetry
published by Chatto and Windus. P. (168) blank. Title-and-name
label, similar to that described below, tipped-in at lower
right corner of p. (164).
Foolscap 4to, 8½ × 6¾; issued in bright red cloth; front and back covers
blank; backbone has white paper title-and-name label lettered across in
red as follows: _Look!_ / _We Have_ / _Come_ / _Through!_ / _D. H._ /
_Lawrence_ Top edges cut; fore edges cut, but in part unopened; bottom
edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
_Look! We Have Come Through!_ was Mr. Lawrence’s third volume of verse.
It is, with the doubtful exception of _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_,
his most notably original contribution to modern poetry. The relative
scarcity of copies of the first edition of _Look! We Have Come Through!_
is discussed in the note on _Love Poems_, and nothing more on that point
need be said here.
The first American edition of _Look! We Have Come Through!_ was
published, from the Chatto and Windus sheets, by B. W. Huebsch, New York,
1918.
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NEW POEMS
Published October 1918
NEW POEMS / By / D. H. / Lawrence / London / Martin Secker / MCMXVIII
COLLATION:—pp. 64, consisting of half-title (with list of
three books of _Poems by the Same Author_ at head; and
acknowledgement, _Two of these poems have appeared in the
English Review._ at foot of verso), pp. (1, 2); title-page,
as above (with dedication, _To_ / _Amy Lowell_ at head; and
printers’ imprint, _Printed in England by the Westminster
Press_ / _411a, Harrow Road, London_ at foot of verso), pp. (3,
4); table of _Contents_, pp. 5, 6; text, 7-64.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 4⅞; issued in grey wrappers; front cover has two-line
border in blue, and is lettered in blue as follows: _New_ / _Poems_ /
_By_ / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / _London_ / _Martin Secker_ / _MCMXVIII_
(All this lettering enclosed by elongated box formed by two vertical
lines inside border). Inside front cover, back strip, inside back cover
are blank. Back cover lettered in blue as follows: (Publisher’s device,
with name, _Martin Secker_) / _xvii Buckingham Street_ / _Adelphi_ Top
and fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed.
The first edition of _New Poems_ was printed on what must have been
almost the worst of all possible war-time paper; and since, in addition,
the book lacked the security of a substantial “case,” I suspect this item
will before long become scarce.
The first American edition of _New Poems_ was published, from new plates,
by B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1920. This edition, too, has an interest
for the Lawrence collector; it contains a significant prefatory essay,
which is not in the English issue, and which, Mr. Lawrence says, “should
have come as a preface to _Look! We Have Come Through!_” This “Preface”
is notable for its lucid and brilliant comment on the nature of poetry.
One finds Mr. Lawrence recurring to some of the tenets here expressed,
when on those too few later occasions he has commented on the poetry of
others, more especially on that of Whitman. This essay first appeared in
_The Playboy_, Numbers 4-5 (not dated), under the title “The Poetry of
the Present.”
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BAY: A BOOK OF POEMS
Published November 1919
BAY (_two dots_) A BOOK / OF (_two dots_) POEMS (_two dots_) By / D : H :
Lawrence
COLLATION:—pp. 48 (together with tipped-in dedication leaf),
consisting of half-title, _Bay_ / (signed in ink by Author
and Artist:) _D. H. Lawrence_ / _Anne Estelle Rice_, p. (i);
Certificate of issue as follows: _This is the eighth book
issued by the Beaumont Press_ / _and the fourth printed by
hand 30 copies have been_ / _printed on Japanese vellum signed
by the author and_ / _artist and numbered 1 to 30 50 copies
on cartridge_ / _paper numbered 31 to 80 and 120 copies on
hand-made_ / _paper numbered 81 to 200._ / (each copy numbered
by type), p. (ii); title-page, as above (verso blank), pp. (3,
4); dedication leaf; table of _Contents_, pp. (5-7); p. (8)
blank; text, pp. 9-43; p. (44) blank; colophon as follows:
_HERE ENDS BAY A BOOK OF POEMS BY_ / _D. H. Lawrence The Cover
and the Decorations_ / _designed by Anne Estelle Rice The
Typography_ / _and Binding arranged by Cyril W. Beaumont_ /
_Printed by Hand on his Press at 75 Charing_ / _Cross Road in
the City of Westminster_ / _Completed November the Twentieth_
/ _MDCCCCXIX_ / (device of the Beaumont Press) / _Pressman
Charles Wright_ / _Compositor C. W. Beaumont_, p. 45; pp.
(46-48) blank. Pp. 9, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 25, 29, 39, 41 are
occupied by decorations in color, as well as by text. Tipped-in
between pp. (4) and (5) is a leaf, not reckoned in pagination,
with dedication _To Cynthia Asquith_ on recto, verso blank.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5⅛; issued in decorated boards, with vellum back; front
and back covers blank; lettered up the back strip in gilt as follows:
(small ornament) _Bay_ (dot) _D. H. Lawrence_ (small ornament). Top edges
rough trimmed; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
The three forms of _Bay_ are fully described in the collation above,
except as to the following points: (1) the copies on cartridge paper,
with decorations in color, have a green buckram back; (2) the copies on
hand-made paper have the same green buckram back, but the decorations are
not in color; (3) owing to an accident, only about half of the cartridge
paper edition was ever issued. All examples of this book are scarce. And
this is a great pity, for _Bay_ contains some of Mr. Lawrence’s finest
short poems.
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TOUCH AND GO
Published May 1920
TOUCH AND GO / A Play in Three Acts by / D. H. Lawrence / London: C. W.
Daniel, Ltd. / Graham House, Tudor Street, E. C. 4 / 1920
COLLATION:—pp. 96, consisting of fly-leaf, with series-title,
_Plays for a People’s Theatre. II._ at head, and half-title,
_Touch and Go_ in center of recto (with _Copyright in
the United States of America._, and notice of performing
rights—seven lines in all—in center of verso), pp. (1, 2);
title-page, as above (with list of three _Plays for a People’s
Theatre_, note on submission of mss. of plays, and quotation
from Bela Kun—fourteen lines in all—on verso), pp. (3, 4);
_Preface_, pp. 5-12; blank page (with list of _Characters_
on verso), pp. (13), 14; text, pp. 15-96. Printers’ imprint,
beneath thin line, at foot of p. 96 as follows: _Printed in
Great Britain by Neill and Co., Ltd., Edinburgh._
Crown 8vo, 7⅝ × 5; issued in flexible yellow boards; front cover has
light blue paper title-and-name label lettered in darker blue of
surrounding decorative border as follows: _Touch_ / _& Go_ / _D. H.
Lawrence_. Light blue paper title-and-name label along back lettered in
dark blue: _Touch and Go—D. H. Lawrence_. Back cover blank. Top and fore
edges uncut and unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
_Touch and Go_ is one of the easier Lawrence items. It is not difficult
to get, but it _is_ quite worth having. The play is interesting; the
preface is extremely uproarious.
The first American edition of _Touch and Go_ was published, from new
plates, by Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1920.
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WOMEN IN LOVE
(Limited Edition)
Published November 1920
WOMEN IN LOVE / By / D. H. Lawrence / New York / Privately Printed for
Subscribers Only / 1920
COLLATION:—pp. iv + 540, consisting of half-title, p. (1);
certificate of issue, as follows: _1250 copies of this book
have been_ / _printed of which this is_ / _No. —_ (each copy
numbered in red ink), p. (ii); title-page, as above (with
_Copyright, 1920, by_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ / (a line) / _All
rights reserved_ in center of verso), pp. (iii, iv); divisional
half-title (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. (3)-536; pp.
(537-540) blank. There is no printer’s imprint.
Medium 8vo, 9½ × 6¼; issued in dark blue cloth; front and back covers
blank; backbone has four merely ornamental raised bands, and is lettered
across in gilt as follows: (two lines at top) / _Women_ / _in_ / _Love_ /
(a line) / _D. H. Lawrence_ / (two lines at bottom). Top and fore edges
uncut; bottom edges rough trimmed. End-papers white.
The “tall, blue _Women in Love_.” In this form Mr. Lawrence’s most
significant and most characteristic novel had its first restricted
circulation. Copies of this issue are not very scarce. Just why is
difficult to say. Perhaps the edition was not fully bought up (however
much it deserved to be) when the novel was published in a cheaper form by
Mr. Seltzer, October, 1922.
A few (less than twenty-five) copies of this form of _Women in Love_ were
autographed, on the title-page, by Mr. Lawrence. These signed copies were
the first numbered, and except for the signature, are identical with the
above. They should not be confused with examples of the autographed form
of _Women in Love_ described below as item 14B.
(14A)
WOMEN IN LOVE
Published May 1921
WOMEN IN LOVE / By D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin Secker / Number Five
John Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. 512, consisting of half-title (verso blank),
pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with _London: Martin
Secker (Ltd.), 1921_ at foot of verso), pp. (3, 4); table
of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp. 5, (6); text, pp. 7-508.
Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. 508 as
follows: _Printed in Great Britain by_ / _The Dunedin Press
Limited, Edinburgh_ Pp. (509-512) are occupied respectively by
_Some Press Opinions of_ / _The Lost Girl_; _The Tales of_ /
_Henry James_; _The Novels of_ / _Compton Mackenzie_; and an
advertisement of _New Poems_.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in brown cloth; front cover, unlettered, has
in blind two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone
ornamented and lettered across in gilt as follows: (one thin, one thick
line at top) / _Women in_ / _Love_ / (dot) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ /
_Secker_ / (one thick, one thin line at bottom). Back cover same as
front. Top and fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
Uniform with _The Lost Girl_.
The first English edition of _Women in Love_. This edition, which was
from new plates, has been reprinted at least three times. Copies of the
first printing are becoming scarce. Catalogues sometimes allege that this
edition was “withdrawn from circulation.” Mr. Secker says that it was not.
(14B)
WOMEN IN LOVE
(Special Signed Edition)
Published May 1922
WOMEN IN LOVE / By / D. H. Lawrence / New York / Privately Printed for
Subscribers Only / 1920
COLLATION:—pp. iv + 540, consisting of blank page, p. (i);
certificate of issue, as follows: _Fifty copies have been_ /
_signed by the Author,_ / _of which this is No._ (each copy
numbered in ink) / (signed in ink by the Author:) _D. H.
Lawrence_, p. (ii); title-page, as above (with _Copyright,
1920, by_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ / (a line) / _All rights reserved_
in center of verso), pp. (iii, iv); divisional half-title
(verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. (3)-536; pp. (537-540)
blank. There is no printer’s imprint.
Medium 8vo, 9³⁄₁₆ × 6¼; issued in brown cloth; front cover, unlettered,
has in blind two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone
ornamented and lettered in gilt as follows: (one thin, one thick line at
top) / _Women in_ / _Love_ / _(dot)_ / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / _1920_ /
(one thick, one thin line at bottom). Back cover same as front. Top edges
dark green and cut; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
This small edition of _Women in Love_ was done by Martin Secker, who
imported the sheets for it from America. These sheets were the same as
those printed for item 14, which was, of course, brought out by Thomas
Seltzer, but without his imprint.
Except for size, copies of this edition of _Women in Love_ are uniform
with the Secker format of Mr. Lawrence’s novels, beginning with _The Lost
Girl_ and followed by the ordinary _Women in Love_ described immediately
above.
Before the Seltzer sheets were put into the Secker “case,” they were
trimmed about five-sixteenths of an inch at the top by the English
binders. This accounts for the slightly greater height of the copies
in the blue “case.” I mention this because the signed copies in brown
are sometime described as the tall-paper copies. Obviously any such
description of the Secker book needs qualifying. All this may be summed
up as follows: all forms of the “1920” issues of _Women in Love_, whether
signed or not, whether bound in blue or brown, were from the sheets of
the Seltzer privately printed edition. To this summary may be appended
the following observations: (1) these “1920” forms constitute the real
first printing of _Women in Love_; (2) this is one of the two books which
Mr. Lawrence has thus far signed—and the only novel.
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THE LOST GIRL
Published November 1920
THE LOST GIRL / By D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin Secker / Number Five
John Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. 372, consisting of half-title (verso blank),
pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with _London: Martin
Secker (Ltd.), 1920_ at foot of verso), pp. (3, 4); table
of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp. 5, (6); text, pp. 7-371.
Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. (372) as
follows: _Printed in Great Britain by_ / _The Dunedin Press
Limited, Edinburgh_
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in brown cloth; front cover, unlettered, has
in blind two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone
ornamented and lettered across in gilt as follows: (one thin, one thick
line at top) / _The Lost_ / _Girl_ / (dot) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ /
_Secker_ / (one thick, one thin line at bottom). Back cover same as
front. Top and fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
The first edition of _The Lost Girl_ exists in three states. These are:
first, that which has the text exactly as Mr. Lawrence first wrote
it; second, that which has the original text altered, the alterations
occurring on two cancel-leaves, which, tipped-in, replaced two leaves
with the original matter; third, that which has the altered pages not
tipped-in, but as integral parts of the signatures to which they belong.
It is not generally known that any changes were made in the text of
_The Lost Girl_ after the book had been printed, but such is the case.
These textual changes were made on pages 256 and 268, and necessitated
tipped-in leaves at those places in the book. The cancel-leaves have
been held, by a few careful dealers, to mark the real first issue. To
most dealers this “point” is evidently unknown. Mr. Martin Secker,
answering my inquiry about the changes in this book, wrote as follows:
“The explanation of the tipped-in pages in _The Lost Girl_ is that it
was thought expedient to make certain verbal alterations in the text, a
decision which was come to after the book was printed. As far as I know,
all copies of the English edition in circulation are like this.”
This letter would seem to justify anyone in assuming that copies with
the tipped-in leaves were of the first issue. But, as a matter of fact,
copies with the original text are extant. At least one such copy has
fallen into my hands. It came from an English dealer through the Centaur
Book Shop. I have neither seen nor have I heard of another such copy.
But that some few more are in circulation is likely. In any case this is
certain: the unaltered form of _The Lost Girl_ is a scarce book, perhaps
even a rare one. So much for the first and second states.
Regarding the third state, little need be said. One might be justified in
reporting it as a second printing; but since there is nothing in the book
to indicate a complete reprinting, it seemed better to regard it as one
form of the first edition, as I have done.
The first American edition of _The Lost Girl_, which has the altered
text, was published, from new plates, by Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1921.
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MOVEMENTS IN EUROPEAN HISTORY
Published March 1921
MOVEMENTS IN / EUROPEAN HISTORY / By / Lawrence H. Davison / Humphrey
Milford / Oxford University Press / London, Edinburgh, Glasgow / Toronto,
Melbourne, Cape Town, Bombay / 1921
[Illustration]
COLLATION:—pp. x (preceded by blank leaf) + 306 (followed
by fourteen pages of maps), consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (verso blank), pp.
(iii, iv); _Introduction for the Teacher_, pp. v-viii; table
of _Contents_ (with list of fourteen _Maps_ on verso), pp.
ix, (x); text, pp. (1)-306. Printers’ imprint, beneath line,
at foot of p. 306 as follows: _Edinburgh: Printed by T. and A.
Constable Ltd._ At end of volume are fourteen maps, in black,
which occupy the rectos of fourteen leaves, twelve of which are
book-size, and two of which are 9¾ inches wide unfolded.
Crown 8vo, 7⅛ × 4⅞; issued in light blue cloth; front and back covers
blank; backbone lettered across in black as follows: _Movements_ / _in_ /
_European_ / _History_ / _Davison_ / _Milford_ All edges cut. End-papers
white.
_Movements in European History_, written by Mr. Lawrence and published
under the _nom de plume_ Lawrence H. Davison, is in effect an elementary
textbook on the history of continental Europe from the beginning of the
Christian era to the unification of Germany. But it is more than that.
To say that the book is alive, that it interprets rather than catalogues
historical events, that it deals with these events frankly rather than
cautiously, that it is written with spirit and can be read with pleasure,
and, finally, to assert that nowhere about the book does one smell
pedagogy, is to say in a variety of ways that _Movements in European
History_ is very much more than an elementary textbook.
The initial edition of this interesting item exists in two forms. The
first is described above; the second differs from the first in that it
has a light brown binding, all other points being identical. The initial
printing was exhausted the first year, and the book was reprinted in
1922. Both first forms differ in several ways from the reprint, which
has, on the verso of an undated title-page, a line of type as follows:
_First published 1921; reprinted 1922_
At the time this note is written (late September, 1924) plans are on foot
to reissue _Movements_ with an epilogue and illustrations. The former
will presumably bring the story of European history down to the present.
In its new form, as in its old, the book will in England bear the imprint
of the Oxford University Press.
The first American edition of _Movements in European History_ will
probably be published next spring, with Mr. Lawrence’s authorship
acknowledged, by Thomas Seltzer, New York.
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PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
(“Special Issue of the First Edition”)
Published May 1921
PSYCHOANALYSIS / AND THE / UNCONSCIOUS / By / D. H. Lawrence /
(_publisher’s device_) / New York / Thomas Seltzer / 1921
COLLATION:—pp. 120 (preceded by two blank leaves), consisting
of half-title, p. (1); certificate of issue, as follows:
_Special Issue of the First Edition_ / _Limited to 250 copies
of which this is_ / _No._ ________ (copies of the issue
evidently never numbered), p. (2); title-page, as above (with
_Copyright, 1921, by_ / _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a line)
/ _All rights reserved_ / _Printed in the United States of
America_ on verso), pp. (3, 4); table of _Contents_ (verso
blank), pp. (5, 6); divisional half-title (verso blank), pp.
(7, 8); text, pp. 9-120. There is no printer’s imprint.
Crown 8vo, 7⅜ × 5; issued in oyster white boards; front cover lettered in
very dark blue as follows: _Psychoanalysis_ / _and the_ / _Unconscious_ /
(a line) / _D. H. Lawrence_ Backbone lettered across in very dark blue:
_Psycho-_ / _analysis_ / _and the_ / _Uncon-_ / _scious_ / (a line) / _D.
H._ / _Lawrence_ / _Thomas_ / _Seltzer_ Back cover blank. All edges cut.
End-papers white.
(17A)
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
(Ordinary Edition)
Published May 1921
PSYCHOANALYSIS / AND THE / UNCONSCIOUS / By / D. H. Lawrence /
(_publisher’s device_) / New York / Thomas Seltzer / 1921
COLLATION:—pp. 120 (preceded by two blank leaves), consisting
of half-title (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above
(with _Copyright, 1921, by_ / _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a
line) / _All rights reserved_ / _Printed in the United States
of America_ on verso), pp. (3, 4); table of _Contents_ (verso
blank), pp. (5, 6); divisional half-title (verso blank), pp.
(7, 8); text, pp. 9-120. There is no printer’s imprint.
Crown 8vo, 7⁵⁄₁₆ × 5; issued in grey boards; front cover lettered in
dark blue as follows: _Psychoanalysis_ / _and the_ / _Unconscious_ / (a
line) / _D. H. Lawrence_ Backbone lettered across in dark blue: _Psycho-_
/ _analysis_ / _and the_ / _Uncon-_ / _scious_ / (a line) / _D. H._
/ _Lawrence_ / _Thomas_ / _Seltzer_ Back cover blank. All edges cut.
End-papers white.
(17B)
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND THE UNCONSCIOUS
Published July 1923
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND / THE UNCONSCIOUS / By D. H. Lawrence / London /
Martin Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. 128, consisting of half-title (with list of
eight books _By the same Author_ on verso), pp. (1, 2);
title-page, as above (with _London: Martin Secker (Ltd.) 1923_
on verso), pp. (3, 4); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp.
5, (6); divisional half-title (verso blank), pp. (7, 8); text,
pp. 9-(128). Printers’ imprint at foot of p. (128) as follows:
_Printed in Great Britain by Butler & Tanner, Frome and London_
Crown 8vo, 7¼ × 4¾; issued in garnet cloth; front and back covers blank;
backbone has cream paper title-and-name label lettered across in red as
follows: (a line) / _Psychoanalysis_ / _and the_ / _Unconscious_ / (a
line) / _D. H. Lawrence_ / (a line) / _Secker_ / (a line). Top and fore
edges cut; bottom edges rough trimmed. End-papers white.
The American edition of _Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious_, which was
the first, exists in two forms. I collated both the so-called “Special
Issue” and the ordinary edition because I know that many collectors, as
well as some dealers, have been puzzled about the first forms of this
book. A comparison of items 17 and 17A will show that the two forms of
the first edition of _Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious_ differ in the
following respects: first, the “Special Issue” has a certificate of issue
on the verso of the half-title, but is on the inside otherwise identical
with the ordinary form—even to the broken U on page nine, in the word
“Unconscious;” second, the sheets of the “Special Issue” measure 7⅜ × 5,
while those of the ordinary issue measure 7⁵⁄₁₆ × 5; third, in keeping
with this difference, perhaps, the outside measurements of the “Special
Issue” are slightly larger all around; fourth, the boards of the two
forms are different in color; fifth, the lettering on the “Special Issue”
is darker than that on the ordinary copies.
Just why the “Special Issue” was done is not exactly clear. Perhaps
some plans with regard to it miscarried, and the idea of a real limited
edition was given up. At any rate the five copies of the book I examined
were all unnumbered, and the original price on them was that of the
regular edition. It is not too much to say the limited “Special Issue” of
_Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious_ is freakish rather than any thing
else. It is a collector’s item.
After the first edition of this book had been exhausted, Mr. Seltzer
issued the second printing in a more substantial “case,” that is to
say, in cloth, in which form it is now available. It will be noticed
from the collations above that the first American edition preceded the
corresponding English edition by more than two years.
In spite of all that critics have said or may say about _Psychoanalysis
and the Unconscious_ and its successor, _Fantasia of the Unconscious_,
one thing is clearly incontrovertible. It is this: both of these books,
especially the latter, reveal flashes of illumination, such as are found
in imaginative thought—and nowhere else.
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TORTOISES
Published December 9, 1921
TORTOISES / By / D. H. Lawrence / (_publisher’s device_—in red) / New
York / Thomas Seltzer / 1921
COLLATION:—pp. 50, consisting of half-title (verso blank),
pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with _Copyright, 1921, by_
/ _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a line) / _All rights reserved_ /
_Printed in the United States of America_ on verso), pp. (3,
4); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp. (5, 6); fly-leaf,
with _Baby Tortoise_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (7, 8);
text, pp. 9-50 (page numbers in square brackets). There is
no printer’s imprint. There are fly-leaves, which mark the
divisions of the work, at pp. (7), (15), (21), (27), (37),
(43). Pp. (8), (14), (16), (20), (22), (28), (36), (38), (42),
(44) blank.
CONTENTS: Baby Tortoise; Tortoise-Shell; Tortoise Family Connections; Lui
et Elle; Tortoise Gallantry; Tortoise Shout.
Small medium 8vo, 9 × 6; issued in old gold boards; front cover has
picture in many colors; in right of foreground giant tortoise is
suspended, in framework of heavy timbers, by rope around his middle;
in the middle-ground and background, showing through heavy-timbered
frame, is one of Hiroshige’s views of Fujiyama, the whole being a
reproduction of a print by this artist; front cover lettered in black
in imitation Chinese lettering as follows: _Tortoises_ / _by_ / _D. H.
Lawrence_ Backbone has white paper title-and-name label lettered in
black: (vertical line) _Tortoises—D. H. Lawrence_ (vertical line). Back
cover blank. Top edges cut; fore edges uncut and unopened; bottom edges
untrimmed. End-papers white.
This is the first and only separate edition of _Tortoises_, which book
has never been published in single-volume form in England. Its first
appearance there between boards was in _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_, where
it occupies pages 117-138. Although this item is still easy to come by,
Lawrence collectors who haven’t it will do well to get copies soon.
Already English catalogues list _Tortoises_ at a price considerably in
advance of the American publication price. Naturally the book is less
common in England than here.
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SEA AND SARDINIA
Published December 12, 1921
SEA AND SARDINIA / By / D. H. Lawrence / With Eight Pictures / in Color
by / Jan Juta / (_publisher’s device_—in red) / New York / Thomas Seltzer
/ 1921
COLLATION:—pp. 356 (together with frontispiece and seven pages
of illustrations in color, by Jan Juta; and _Map for Sea and
Sardinia_, by D. H. Lawrence), consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (1, 2); frontispiece; title-page, as above (with
_Copyright, 1921, by_ / _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a line)
/ _All rights reserved_ / _Printed in the United States of
America_ on verso), pp. (3, 4); table of _Contents_ (verso
blank), pp. (5, 6); _List of Illustrations_ (verso blank), pp.
(7, 8); divisional half-title, pp. (9, 10); text, pp. 11-355;
p. (356) blank. There is no printer’s imprint. Pp. (3), 100,
148, 180, 204, 236, 268, 300 are faced by illustrations in
color tipped-in, all with protecting tissue. P. 44 is faced by
map, in black.
Medium 8vo, 9¼ × 6¼; issued in light green boards with yellow cloth back,
approximating half-cloth; front and back covers blank; backbone has light
green paper title-and-name label lettered across in dark blue as follows:
_Sea_ / _and_ / _Sardinia_ / (small ornament) / _By_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ /
(small ornament) / _Thomas Seltzer_ (all surrounded by one-line box). Top
edges cut; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
_Sea and Sardinia_ was Mr. Lawrence’s second volume of travel
sketches—only “travel” and “sketches” are not quite the words needed
here. In any case, a glorious book. Something will be gained if all
persons ignorant of _Sea and Sardinia_ (and _Twilight in Italy_) stop
pretending to a full knowledge of Mr. Lawrence’s prose. Because the book
has nowhere had the reading it deserves, the first issues of _Sea and
Sardinia_, both American and English, are still relatively easy to get.
(19A)
SEA AND SARDINIA
Published April 1923
SEA AND SARDINIA / By D. H. Lawrence / With Eight Pictures / in Colour by
Jan Juta / London / Martin Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. 304 (together with frontispiece and seven pages
of illustrations in color, by Jan Juta), consisting of blank
leaf, pp. (1, 2); half-title (with list of five books _By the
same Author_ on verso), pp. (3, 4); frontispiece; title-page,
as above (with _London: Martin Secker (Ltd.), 1923_ at foot
of verso), pp. (5, 6); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp.
(7, 8); _List of Illustrations_ (verso blank), pp. (9, 10);
divisional half-title (verso blank), pp. (11, 12); text, pp.
13-301. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. 301
as follows: _Printed by the London and Norwich Press, Limited,
London and Norwich_ Pp. (302-304) are occupied respectively by
advertisements of books by D. H. Lawrence; by Norman Douglas;
and by Lascelles Abercrombie. Pp. (5), 112, 144, 160, 176, 192,
208, 240 are faced by tipped-in illustrations in color.
Foolscap 4to, 8½ × 6¾; issued in brown cloth; front cover, unlettered,
has in blind two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone
ornamented and lettered across in gilt as follows: (one thin, one thick
line at top) / _Sea and_ / _Sardinia_ / (dot) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_
/ _Secker_ / (one thick, one thin line at bottom). Back cover same as
front. Inside covers, front and back, are occupied by same _Map for Sea
and Sardinia_, in brown, drawn by D. H. Lawrence. Top edges very dark
green and cut; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
Except for size, the English edition of _Sea and Sardinia_ is uniform
with the Seeker format of Mr. Lawrence’s novels, beginning with _The Lost
Girl_. It is a beautiful book. Indeed, taken merely as a book, this is
perhaps the most beautiful Lawrence item.
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AARON’S ROD
Published April 1922
AARON’S ROD / By / D. H. Lawrence / (_publisher’s device_) / New York /
Thomas Seltzer / 1922
COLLATION:—pp. 348, consisting of half-title (verso blank),
pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with _Copyright, 1922, by_
/ _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a line) / _All rights reserved_ /
_Printed in the United States of America_ on verso), pp. (3,
4); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp. (5, 6); text, pp.
7-347; p. (348) blank. There is no printer’s imprint.
Crown 8vo, 7⁵⁄₁₆ × 5; issued in bluish grey cloth; front cover has
in blind one-line border, and is divided by vertical line in blind;
horizontal blind line two inches from top is broken at _by_ of lettering,
which is in black in upper right corner as follows: _Aaron’s_ / _Rod_ /
_by_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ Backbone lettered across in black: _Aaron’s_ /
_Rod_ / (a line) / _D. H. Lawrence_ / _Thomas_ / _Seltzer_ Back cover
blank. All edges cut. End-papers white.
(20A)
AARON’S ROD
Published June 1922
AARON’S ROD / By D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin Secker / Number Five
John Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. 312, consisting of half-title (verso blank),
pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with _London: Martin
Secker (Ltd.), 1922_ at foot of verso), pp. (3, 4); table
of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp. 5, (6); text, pp. 7-312.
Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. 312 as
follows: _Printed in Great Britain by_ / _The Dunedin Press
Limited, Edinburgh_ At end of volume is unnumbered eight-page
announcement of _Martin_ / _Secker’s_ / _Books_ / _MCMXXII_
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in brown cloth; front cover, unlettered, has
in blind two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone
ornamented and lettered across in gilt as follows: (one thin, one
thick line at top) / _Aaron’s_ / _Rod_ / (dot) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_
/ _Secker_ / (one thick, one thin line at bottom). Back cover same as
front. Top and fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
Uniform with _The Lost Girl_.
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FANTASIA OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
Published October 23, 1922
FANTASIA / OF THE / UNCONSCIOUS / By / D. H. Lawrence / (_publisher’s
device_) / New York / Thomas Seltzer / 1922
COLLATION:—pp. xvi + 300, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _Copyright,
1922, by_ / _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a line) / _All Rights
Reserved_ / _Printed in the United States of America_ on
verso), pp. (iii, iv); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp.
(v, vi); _Foreword_, pp. vii-xv; p. (xvi) blank; text, pp.
1-290; _Epilogue_, pp. 291-297; pp. (298-300) blank. There is
no printer’s imprint.
Crown 8vo, 7⅜ × 5; issued in blue ribbed cloth; front cover has in blind
one-line border, and is lettered in gilt as follows: _Fantasia_ / _of
the_ / _Unconscious_ / (a line) / _D. H. Lawrence_ Backbone lettered
across in gilt: _Fantasia_ / _of the_ / _Unconscious_ / (a line) / _D.
H. Lawrence_ / _Thomas_ / _Seltzer_ Back cover blank. All edges cut.
End-papers white.
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FANTASIA OF THE UNCONSCIOUS
Published September 1923
FANTASIA OF THE / UNCONSCIOUS / By D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin
Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. 176, consisting of half-title (with list of
nine books _By the same Author_ at top of verso), pp. (1, 2);
title-page, as above (with _London: Martin Secker (Ltd.) 1923_
at foot of verso), pp. (3, 4); table of _Contents_ (verso
blank), pp. 5, (6); _Foreword_, pp. 7-(11); p. (12) blank;
text, pp. 13-(176). Printers’ imprint at foot of p. (176) as
follows: _Printed in Great Britain by Butler and Tanner, Frome
and London_
Demy 8vo, 8¼ × 5¾; issued in garnet cloth; front and back covers blank;
backbone has cream paper title-and-name label lettered across in red as
follows: (a line) / _Fantasia_ / _of the_ / _Unconscious_ / (a line) /
_D. H. Lawrence_ / (a line) / _Secker_ / (a line). Top edges cut; fore
edges unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
The text of the English edition, except for the omission of the
“Epilogue,” which is addressed particularly to America, is the same as
that of item 21.
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ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND
Published October 24, 1922
ENGLAND / MY ENGLAND / AND OTHER STORIES / By / D. H. Lawrence /
(_publisher’s device_) / New York / Thomas Seltzer / 1922
COLLATION:—pp. vi + 274, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _Copyright,
1922, by_ / _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a line) / _All Rights
Reserved_ / _Printed in the United States of America_ on
verso), pp. (iii, iv); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp.
(v, vi); fly-title, _England, My England_ (verso blank), pp.
(1, 2); text, pp. 3-273. P. (274) blank. There is no printer’s
imprint. There are fly-titles before the various stories which
make up the work at pp. (1), (49), (69), (99), (121), (145),
(173), (199), (223), (251). Pp. (2), (48), (50), (70), (98),
(100), (120), (122), (146), (172), (174), (198), (200), (222),
(224), (250), (252) blank.
CONTENTS: England, My England; Tickets, Please; The Blind Man; Monkey
Nuts; Wintry Peacock; You Touched Me; Samson and Delilah; The Primrose
Path; The Horse Dealer’s Daughter; Fannie and Annie.
Crown 8vo, 7⅜ × 5; issued in bluish grey cloth; front cover has in blind
one-line border, and is divided by vertical line in blind; horizontal
blind line two inches from top is broken at _by_ of lettering, which is
in gilt in upper right corner as follows: _England_ / _My_ / _England_
/ _by_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ Backbone lettered across in gilt: _England_ /
_My_ / _England_ / (a line) / _D. H. Lawrence_ / _Thomas_ / _Seltzer_
Back cover blank. All edges cut. End-papers white.
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ENGLAND, MY ENGLAND
Published January 1924
ENGLAND, MY / ENGLAND / By D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin Secker /
Number Five John Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. 242, consisting of half-title and signature _A_
(with list of eleven books _By the same Author_ on verso),
pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with _London: Martin Secker
(Ltd.), 1924_ on verso), pp. (3, 4); table of _Contents_ (verso
blank), pp. 5, (6); fly-title, _England, My England_ (verso
blank), pp. (7, 8); text, pp. 9-242. Printers’ imprint,
beneath thin line, at foot of p. 242 as follows: _Printed in
Great Britain by_ / _The Dunedin Press Limited, Edinburgh_ At
end of volume are fourteen unnumbered pages of advertisements
of books published by Martin Secker. There are fly-titles
before the various stories which make up the work at pp. (7),
(49), (67), (93), (111), (133), (157), (179), (199), (223). Pp.
(8), (48), (50), (68), (94), (112), (132), (134), (156), (158),
(180), (200), (222), (224) blank.
CONTENTS: Same as American edition.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in brown cloth; front cover, unlettered, has
in blind two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone
ornamented and lettered across in gilt as follows: (one thin, one thick
line at top) / _England_, / _My England_ / (dot) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_
/ _Secker_ / (one thick, one thin line at bottom). Back cover same as
front. Top and fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
Uniform with _The Lost Girl_.
_England, My England_ was Mr. Lawrence’s second volume of short stories.
It came almost eight years after the first. However, the long interval
between _The Prussian Officer_ and this second collection would seem to
have less significance in his career as a writer of short stories than
some reviewers of _England, My England_ tried to make out. At any rate,
the title story of the latter volume appeared in the _English Review_
in October, 1915, and some of the other stories were published several
years before their appearance in book form. All this as may be, _England,
My England_ is a Lawrence item of great importance. The book is still
“easy” in either the American or the English first form.
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THE LADYBIRD
Published March 1923
THE LADYBIRD / THE FOX: THE CAPTAIN’S DOLL / By D. H. Lawrence / London /
Martin Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. 256, consisting of half-title (with list of
five books _By the same Author_ at top of verso), pp. (1, 2);
title-page, as above (with _London: Martin Secker (Ltd.),
1923._ at foot of verso), pp. (3, 4); table of _Contents_
(verso blank), pp. 5, (6); fly-title, _The Ladybird_ (verso
blank), pp. (7, 8); text, pp. 9-255. Printers’ imprint, beneath
thin line, at foot of p. 255 as follows: _Printed in Great
Britain by_ / _The Dunedin Press Limited, Edinburgh_ P. (256)
is occupied by three excerpts from reviews of three novels _By_
/ _D. H. Lawrence_ There are fly-titles before the separate
stories which make up the work at pp. (7), (83), (161). Pp.
(8), (84), (160), (162) blank.
CONTENTS: The Ladybird; The Fox; The Captain’s Doll.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in brown cloth; front cover, unlettered, has
in blind two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone
ornamented and lettered across in gilt: (one thin, one thick line at top)
/ _The_ / _Ladybird_ / (dot) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / _Secker_ / (one
thick, one thin line at bottom). Back cover same as front. Top and fore
edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white. Uniform with _The
Lost Girl_.
_The Ladybird_, beyond all question one of the most distinguished books
of contemporary fiction, was published in America under the title _The
Captain’s Doll_, by Thomas Seltzer, New York, April, 1923. The order of
the stories in the American edition was: The Captain’s Doll; The Fox; The
Ladybird.
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STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE
Published August 1923
STUDIES IN / CLASSIC AMERICAN / LITERATURE / By D. H. Lawrence /
(_publisher’s device_) / New York / Thomas Seltzer / 1923
COLLATION:—pp. x + 266, consisting of half-title (with list
of fourteen books _By D. H. Lawrence_, surrounded by one-line
border, on verso), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with
_Copyright, 1923, by_ / _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a line)
/ _All Rights Reserved_ / _Printed in the United States of
America_ on verso), pp. (iii, iv); table of _Contents_ (verso
blank), pp. (v, vi); _Foreword_, pp. vii-ix; p. (x) blank;
text, pp. 1-264; pp. (265, 266) blank. There is no printer’s
imprint.
CONTENTS: Foreword; The Spirit of Place; Benjamin Franklin; Hector St.
John de Crèvecœur; Fenimore Cooper’s White Novels; Fenimore Cooper’s
Leatherstocking Novels; Edgar Allan Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The
Scarlet Letter;” Hawthorne’s “Blithedale Romance;” Dana’s “Two Years
Before the Mast;” Herman Melville’s “Typee” and “Omoo;” Herman Melville’s
“Moby Dick;” Whitman.
Medium 8vo, 9 × 6¼; issued in medium blue cloth; front cover has one-line
border in blind, and is lettered in gilt as follows: _Studies in Classic_
/ _American Literature_ / (a line) / _D. H. Lawrence_ Backbone lettered
across in gilt: _Studies_ / _in_ / _Classic_ / _American_ / _Literature_
/ _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / _Thomas_ / _Seltzer_ Back cover blank. Top edges
blue and cut; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
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STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE
Published June 1924
STUDIES IN / CLASSIC AMERICAN / LITERATURE / By D. H. Lawrence / London /
Martin Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. 176, consisting of half-title (with list of
eleven books _By the same Author_ on verso), pp. (1, 2);
title-page, as above (with _London: Martin Secker (Ltd.) 1924_
on verso), pp. (3, 4); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp.
5, (6); text, pp. 7-(176). Printer’s imprint, beneath thin
line, at foot of p. (176) as follows: _Printed in Great Britain
by Butler & Tanner Ltd., Frome and London_
CONTENTS: Same as in American edition, except for the omission of the
“Foreword,” which was especially designed for America.
Demy 8vo, 8¾ × 5½; issued in bright red cloth; front and back covers
blank; backbone has white paper title-and-name label lettered across in
black as follows: (a line) / _Studies in_ / _Classic_ / _American_ /
_Literature_ / (a line) / _D. H. Lawrence_ / (a line) / _Secker_ / (a
line). Top and fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
_Studies in Classic American Literature_ is, so far, Mr. Lawrence’s only
sustained work in literary criticism. Many of these essays first appeared
serially in the _English Review_. The dates of their appearance in that
journal are given under Contributions to Periodicals, where a paper on
Whitman in the London _Nation_ is also noted. Before their publication
in book form the essays were materially revised, and several new studies
were added.
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KANGAROO
Published September 1923
KANGAROO / By D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin Secker / Number Five John
Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. vi (preceded by leaf, signature _a_ on
recto, verso blank) + 408, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _London:
Martin Secker (Ltd.), 1923._ at foot of verso), pp. (iii,
iv); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp. v, (vi); text,
pp. 1-402. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot
of p. 402 as follows: _Printed in Great Britain by_ / _The
Dunedin Press Limited, Edinburgh_ Pp. (403-408) are occupied
by advertisements which list respectively _Works by_ the
following: D. H. Lawrence; Compton Mackenzie; Maurice Baring;
Norman Douglas; Arthur Machen; Lascelles Abercrombie.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in brown cloth; front cover, unlettered, has
in blind two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone
ornamented and lettered across in gilt as follows: (one thin, one thick
line at top) / _Kangaroo_ / (dot) / _D. H._ / _Lawrence_ / _Secker_ /
(one thick, one thin line at bottom). Back cover same as front. Top and
fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white. Uniform with
_The Lost Girl_.
The first American edition of _Kangaroo_ was published, from new plates,
by Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1923.
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BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS
Published October 9, 1923
BIRDS, BEASTS / AND FLOWERS / By / D. H. Lawrence / (_publisher’s
device_) / Published by Thomas Seltzer / New York MCMXXIII
COLLATION:—pp. xii+180, consisting of half-title (verso blank),
pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _Copyright, 1923, by_
/ _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a line) / _All rights reserved_
/ _Printed in the United States of America_ on verso), pp.
(iii, iv); acknowledgement—three lines (verso blank), pp. (v,
vi); table of _Contents_, pp. vii-ix; p. (x) blank; divisional
half-title (verso blank), pp. (xi, xii); text, pp. 1-180. There
is no printer’s imprint.
Pott 4to, 8¼ × 6¼; issued in strawberry pink buckram; front and back
covers blank; backbone has white paper title-and-name label lettered
across in red as follows: _Birds_, / _Beasts_ / _and_ / _Flowers_ / _D.
H._ / _Lawrence_ Top edges cut; fore and bottom edges uncut. End-papers
white.
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BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS
Published November 1923
BIRDS, BEASTS / AND FLOWERS / Poems / By / D. H. Lawrence / London /
Martin Secker / Number Five John Street / Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. 208, consisting of half-title (with list of
nine books _By the same Author_ at top of verso), pp. (1, 2);
title-page, as above (with _Printed in Great Britain_ / _by
the Riverside Press Limited_ / _Edinburgh_ / _London: Martin
Secker (Ltd.) 1923_ on verso), pp. (3, 4); acknowledgement—five
lines (verso blank), pp. (5, 6); table of _Contents_, pp. 7,
8; fly-title, _Fruits_ (verso blank), pp. (9, 10); text, pp.
11-207; p. (208) blank. There are fly-titles before the major
divisions of the work at pp. (9), (35), (49), (71), (87),
(111), (139), (153), (195). Pp. (10), (34), (36), (48), (50),
(72), (88), (112), (140), (152), (154), (194), (196) blank.
CONTENTS: Same as in American edition, except for the inclusion of the
six parts of _Tortoises_, poems which had previously been published in
book form in America, but not in England. (See item 18.)
Demy 8vo, 8¾ × 5¾; issued in canary yellow boards, with black,
vellum-finish cloth back, approximating half-cloth; front and back covers
blank; backbone has yellow paper title-and-name label lettered across in
black as follows: (a line) / _Birds, Beasts_ / _and Flowers_ / _Poems_ /
_By_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ / (a line) / _Secker_ / (a line). Top edges black
and cut; fore edges unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
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THE BOY IN THE BUSH
(with M. L. Skinner)
Published August 1924
THE / BOY IN THE BUSH / By / D. H. Lawrence / and / M. L. Skinner /
London / Martin Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
COLLATION:—pp. vi (preceded by leaf with signature _a_ on
recto, verso blank) + 376, consisting of half-title (with list
of eleven books _By D. H. Lawrence_ on verso), pp. (i, ii);
title-page, as above (with _London: Martin Secker (Ltd.),
1924._ at foot of verso), pp. (iii, iv); table of _Contents_,
pp. v, vi; text, pp. 1-369. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin
line, at foot of p. 369 as follows: _Printed in Great Britain
by_ / _The Dunedin Press Limited, Edinburgh_ Pp. (370-376)
are occupied by advertisements which list respectively _Works
by_ the following: D. H. Lawrence, Compton Mackenzie, Norman
Douglas, Arthur Machen, Lascelles Abercrombie, Henry James,
Jane Austen.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in straw colored cloth; front cover,
unlettered, has in black two-line border, inside line thicker than
outside; backbone ornamented and lettered across in black as follows:
(one thin, one thick line at top) / _The Boy_ / _in the Bush_ / (dot) /
_D. H. Lawrence_ / _and_ / _M. L. Skinner_ / _Secker_ / (one thick, one
thin line at bottom). Top edges black and cut; fore edges cut; bottom
edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
The first American edition of _The Boy in the Bush_ was published, from
new plates, by Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1924.
NOTE. Since the first proof of this bibliography was corrected,
the following books, stories, and articles by Mr. Lawrence
have either been published or announced for early publication:
(1) _Little Novels of Sicily_ by Giovanni Verga, translated
by D. H. Lawrence, has been published in America by Thomas
Seltzer, and is announced for publication in England by Basil
Blackwell; (2) _Mastro-Don Gesualdo_ by Giovanni Verga,
translated by D. H. Lawrence, is announced for publication in
England by Jonathan Cape; (3) _St. Mawr_, containing two long
stories, “St. Mawr” and “The Princess,” has been announced for
publication in England by Martin Secker; (4) _The Black Swans_
by M. L. Skinner, with an introduction by D. H. Lawrence, has
been announced for publication in England by Jonathan Cape; (5)
_The New Decameron_, Volume IV, published in England by Basil
Blackwell, contains “The Last Laugh,” a new short story by Mr.
Lawrence; (6) the first installment of “The Princess” appeared
in the March number of _The Calendar of Modern Letters_ a new
English monthly.
TRANSLATION
MASTRO—DON GESUALDO
1923
MASTRO—DON GESUALDO / By / Giovanni Verga / Translated by / D. H.
Lawrence / (_publisher’s device_) / New York / Thomas Seltzer / 1923
COLLATION:—pp. xii + 456, consisting of half-title (with a list
of fifteen books _By D. H. Lawrence_, surrounded by one-line
border, on verso), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with
_Copyright, 1923, by_ / _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a line)
/ _All Rights Reserved_ / _Printed in the United States of
America_ on verso), pp. (iii, iv); _Biographical Note_, pp.
v-vii; _Bibliography_, p. viii; _Principal Characters_, pp.
ix, (x); table of _Contents_ (verso blank), pp. (xi, xii);
fly-leaf, _First Part_ (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp.
3-454. Pp. (455, 456) blank. There is no printer’s imprint.
Fly-leaves precede the four parts of the work at pp. (1, 2),
(163, 164), (269, 270), (351, 352). Pp. (2), (164), (268),
(270), (352) blank.
Crown 8vo, 7⅜ × 5; issued in rough orange cloth; front cover has in
blind one-line border, and is divided by vertical line in blind;
horizontal line in blind, two inches from top, is broken by purple paper
title-and-name label lettered in white as follows: _Mastro—_ / _Don_
/ _Gesualdo_ / _by_ / _Giovanni_ / _Verga_ Backbone has at top purple
title-and-name label lettered across in white: _Mastro—_ / _Don_ /
_Gesualdo_ / (a line) / _Verga_ / (with _Thomas_ / _Seltzer_ stamped
in black at bottom); back cover blank. Top edges orange; all edges cut.
End-papers white.
Some copies of _Mastro—Don Gesualdo_ show a slight variation from the
above. In these copies what is p. (i) is preceded by, and what is page
(456) is followed by three blank leaves of very heavy paper, like the
end-papers. This translation has not thus far been published in England.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO BOOKS
I. POETRY
GEORGIAN POETRY: 1911-1912
Published December 1912
GEORGIAN / POETRY / 1911-1912 / (_six small ornaments in triangular
arrangement_) / The Poetry Bookshop / 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. /
London W. C.
COLLATION:—pp. viii + 200, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _Dedicated_ /
_To_ / _Robert Bridges_ / _By the Writers_ / _And the Editor_
on verso), pp. (iii, iv); _Prefatory Note_ (with long quotation
from Lord Dunsany on verso), pp. (v, vi); table of _Contents_,
pp. (vii, viii); divisional fly-leaf, with _Lascelles
Abercrombie_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp.
3-193; p. (194) blank; _Bibliography_, pp. 195-197. Printers’
imprint at center of p. (198) as follows: Device (Stag and
Tree) with lettering, _The_ / _Arden_ (device) _Press_ /
_Letchworth_ Pp. (199, 200) blank.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in light brown boards; front cover lettered in
gilt and ornamented as follows: _Georgian Poetry_ / _1911-1912_ / _P_
(diamond) _B_ (on bright red shield) / _The Poetry Bookshop_ Backbone
lettered in gilt: _Georgian_ / _Poetry_ / _1911-1912_ Back cover blank.
Top edges gilt; fore edges uncut and unopened; bottom edges untrimmed.
End-papers white.
Five volumes of _Georgian Poetry_ have so far been published. All but
one of these volumes, that for 1916-1917, contain contributions by Mr.
Lawrence. He is represented in the above collection, at pages 113-116,
by “Snap-Dragon,” a poem which was printed in the _English Review_, June
1912, but which appeared for the first time between boards in _Georgian
Poetry_. It was later included in _Amores_.
In America, the five volumes of _Georgian Poetry_ were published, from
the Poetry Bookshop sheets, by G. P. Putnam’s Sons.
GEORGIAN POETRY: 1913-1915
Published November 1915
GEORGIAN / POETRY / 1913-1915 / (_six small ornaments in triangular
arrangement_) / The Poetry Bookshop / 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. /
London W. C. / MCMXV
COLLATION:—pp. x + 246, consisting of half-title (verso blank),
pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _In Memoriam_ / _R. B._
/ _J. E. F._ on verso), pp. (iii, iv); _Prefatory Note_ (verso
blank), pp. (v, vi); table of _Contents_, pp. (vii-ix); p. (x)
blank; divisional fly-leaf, with _Gordon Bottomley_ on recto
(verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-239; p. (240) blank;
_Bibliography_, pp. 241-244. Pp. (245, 246) are occupied by
advertisements of _Poetry Bookshop Publications_. Printers’
imprint at foot of p. (246) as follows: _Printed by W. H. Smith
& Son (The Arden Press), 53_ (slanting line) _5 Fetter Lane,
London, E. C._
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in light blue boards; front cover lettered in
gilt as follows: _Georgian Poetry_ / _1913-1915_ / _The Poetry Bookshop_
Backbone lettered across in gilt and ornamented: _Georgian_ / _Poetry_ /
_1913-1915_ / _P_ (diamond) _B_ (on bright red shield). Back cover blank.
Top edges gilt; fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. End-papers white.
To the second volume of _Georgian Poetry_ Mr. Lawrence contributed
the following poems: “Service of All the Dead;” “Meeting among the
Mountains;” “Cruelty and Love.” They occupy pages 153-158. The last was
reprinted from _Love Poems_; the first was later included in _Look!
We Have Come Through!_ where it appeared under the title “Giorno dei
Morti.” “Meeting among the Mountains” has not, unless I am mistaken, been
included in any of Mr. Lawrence’s books of verse.
SOME IMAGIST POETS
Published April 1915
SOME IMAGIST / POETS / An Anthology / (_publishers’ device_) / Boston and
New York / Houghton Mifflin Company / The Riverside Press Cambridge / 1915
COLLATION:—pp. ii + x + 96, consisting of leaf, not reckoned in
pagination, recto blank (with seven titles in _The New Poetry
Series_, surrounded by one-line border, on verso), pp. (i, ii);
half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above
(with _Copyright, 1915, By Houghton Mifflin Company_ / _All
Rights Reserved_ / _Published April 1915_ on verso), pp. (iii,
iv); _Preface_, pp. v-(viii); table of _Contents_, pp. ix, (x);
divisional fly-leaf, with _Richard Aldington_ on recto (verso
blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-(92); divisional fly-leaf,
with _Bibliography_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (93, 94);
_Bibliography_, p. (95). Printers’ imprint at center of p. (96)
as follows: _The Riverside Press_ / _Cambridge . Massachusetts_
/ _U . S . A_
Crown 8vo, 7¾ × 5⅝; issued in plain flexible boards, with surrounding
green paper wrappers glued along back strip only; front cover lettered in
black as follows: _Some Imagist Poets_ / _An Anthology_ / _The New Poetry
Series_ / (publishers’ device) _Houghton Mifflin Company_ / _Boston and
New York_ / (small ornament). Lettered down backstrip: _Some Imagist
Poets_ Back cover blank. All edges cut flush with boards. Wrappers
over-lap top and bottom edges ⅛ inch, and fold in three inches at fore
edges of boards. End-papers white.
To this volume, the first of three _Imagist Anthologies_ published by
the Houghton Mifflin Company, Mr. Lawrence contributed seven poems as
follows: “Ballad of Another Ophelia;” “Illicit;” “Fireflies in the Corn;”
“A Woman and Her Dead Husband;” “The Mowers;” “Scent of Irises;” “Green.”
These poems occupy pages 67 to 78. The first and sixth appeared later in
_Amores_. The second, third, fifth, and seventh were included in _Look!
We Have Come Through!_ But, “The Mowers,” revised, was here printed under
the title “A Youth Mowing,” and “Illicit” became “On a Balcony.” “A Woman
and Her Dead Husband” is, in _New Poems_, “The Bitterness of Death.”
Because the contributors to the _Imagist Anthologies_ had agreed among
themselves to submit nothing that had previously appeared in book
form, these collections are of especial interest to collectors of Mr.
Lawrence’s first printings in books.
The _Imagist Anthologies_ were published in England by Constable and
Company, but after the American editions, which were the first.
SOME IMAGIST POETS: 1916
Published May 1916
SOME IMAGIST POETS / 1916 / (_a line_) / An Annual Anthology /
(_publishers’ device_) / Boston and New York / Houghton Mifflin Company /
The Riverside Press Cambridge / 1916
COLLATION:—pp. ii + xvi + 98, consisting of leaf, not
reckoned in pagination, recto blank (with thirteen titles in
_The New Poetry Series_ on verso), pp. (i, ii); half-title
(verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with
_Copyright, 1916, By Houghton Mifflin Company_ / _All Rights
Reserved_ / _Published May 1916_ on verso), pp. (iii, iv);
_Preface_, pp. v-(xii); table of _Contents_, pp. xiii, (xiv);
acknowledgement—ten lines (verso blank), pp. (xv, xvi);
divisional fly-leaf, with _Richard Aldington_ on recto (verso
blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-(91); p. (92) blank; divisional
fly-leaf, with _Bibliography_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (93,
94); _Bibliography_, pp. 95, (96); p. (97) blank. Printers’
imprint at center of p. (98) as follows: _The Riverside Press_
/ _Cambridge . Massachusetts_ / _U . S . A_
Crown 8vo, 7¾ × 5⅝; issued in plain flexible boards, with surrounding
green paper wrappers glued along back strip only; front cover lettered
in black as follows: _Some Imagist Poets, 1916_ / _An Annual Anthology_
/ _The New Poetry Series_ / (publishers’ device) / _Houghton Mifflin
Company_ / _Boston and New York_ / (small ornament). Lettered down back
strip: _Some Imagist Poets, 1916_ Back cover blank. All edges cut flush
with boards. Wrappers over-lap top and bottom edges ⅛ inch, and fold in
three inches at fore edges of boards. End-papers white.
To the second _Imagist Anthology_ Mr. Lawrence contributed five poems:
“Erinnyes;” “Perfidy;” “At the Window;” “In Trouble and Shame;” “Brooding
Grief.” These poems occupy pages 67-74. All but “Erinnyes,” most
beautiful of war poems, were later included in _Amores_. Any one of the
many anthologies of war poetry might have enriched itself greatly by
including “Erinnyes.” If any such collection did make use of this poem, I
am unaware of it.
SOME IMAGIST POETS: 1917
Published April 1917
SOME IMAGIST POETS / 1917 / (_a line_) / An Annual Anthology /
(_publishers’ device_) / Boston and New York / Houghton Mifflin Company /
The Riverside Press Cambridge / 1917
COLLATION:—pp. viii + 92, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _Copyright,
1917, By Houghton Mifflin Company_ / _All Rights Reserved_
/ _Published April 1917_ on verso), pp. (iii, iv);
acknowledgement—eight lines (verso blank), pp. (v, vi); table
of _Contents_, pp. vii, (viii); divisional fly-leaf, with
_Richard Aldington_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text,
pp. 3-(86); divisional fly-leaf, with _Bibliography_ on recto
(verso blank), pp. (87, 88); _Bibliography_, pp. 89, (90); p.
(91) blank. Printers’ imprint at center of p. (92) as follows:
_The Riverside Press_ / _Cambridge . Massachusetts_ / _U . S .
A_
Crown 8vo, 7¾ × 5⅝; issued in plain flexible boards, with surrounding
green paper wrappers glued along back strip only; front cover lettered
in black as follows: _Some Imagist Poets, 1917_ (a line beneath numbers)
/ _An Annual Anthology_ / (publishers’ device) / _Houghton Mifflin
Company_ / _Boston and New York_ (small ornament). Lettered down backbone
in black: _Some Imagist Poets, 1917_ (a line beneath numbers). Back
cover blank. All edges cut flush with boards. Wrappers over-lap top and
bottom edges ⅛ inch, and fold in three inches at fore edges of boards.
End-papers white.
To this, the third and last Houghton Mifflin _Imagist Anthology_, Mr.
Lawrence contributed only one poem, “Terra Nuova,” which occupies pages
69-75. “Terra Nuova” was later included in _Look! We Have Come Through!_
under the title “New Heaven and Earth.”
NEW PATHS
Published May 1918
NEW PATHS / Verse (_dot_) Prose (_dot_) Pictures / 1917-1918 / Edited by
/ C. W. Beaumont and M. T. H. Sadler / Decorated by / Anne Estelle Rice /
(_publisher’s device_) / London / C. W. Beaumont / 75 Charing Cross Road
W. C. 2
COLLATION:—pp. xii + 164 (with a frontispiece), consisting
of half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); frontispiece;
title-page, as above (with _First published May 1918_ on
verso), pp. (iii, iv); dedication (verso blank), pp. (v,
vi); table of _Contents_, pp. (vii-x); blank leaf, pp. (xi,
xii); _Verse_, pp. 1-74; _Prose_, pp. 75-111; _Pictures_, pp.
112-164. At end of volume there is twelve-page, unnumbered
and undated, catalogue of various _Publishers’ Announcements_
Tipped-in between pp. (x) and (xi) is an errata slip—seven
lines.
Foolscap 4to, 8¾ × 6¾; issued in light tan boards; front cover lettered
and ornamented in dark blue as follows: _New Paths_ / _Verse_ (dot)
_Prose_ (dot) _Pictures_ / _1917-1918_ / (a bowl of fruit). Backbone has
white paper title label, with one-line border in dark blue, lettered in
dark blue: _New_ / _Paths_ / _1917-18_ / (small ornament) / _C. W._ /
_Beaumont_ Back cover has at center woman’s head, in dark blue. Top and
fore edges uncut and in part unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers
white.
To this representative collection of modern verse, prose, and pictures
Mr. Lawrence contributed two poems: “Labour Battalion” and “No News,”
which occupy pages 37-39. So far as I am aware neither of these poems has
been reprinted in any of Mr. Lawrence’s books of poems. It is likely
that the edition of _New Paths_ was small, for this book has already
become scarce—at least for an anthology.
An American edition of _New Paths_ was published by Alfred A. Knopf, New
York, 1918.
BOOK OF BRITISH VERSE
BOOK OF BRITISH VERSE. Edited by W. S. Braithwaite. Boston, 1919. (Small,
Maynard and Company.)
Contains: “Kisses in the Train,” by Mr. Lawrence. This poem was reprinted
from _Love Poems_; it appeared in the above anthology under the incorrect
title “Kisses in the Rain.”
GEORGIAN POETRY: 1918-1919
GEORGIAN POETRY: 1918-1919. (Selected by E. M.) London, 1919. (The Poetry
Bookshop.)
Contains: “Seven Seals,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from _New Poems_.
MODERN BRITISH POETRY
MODERN BRITISH POETRY. Edited by Louis Untermeyer. New York, 1920.
(Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
Contains: “People;” “Piano,” by Mr. Lawrence. The former was reprinted
from _Look! We Have Come Through!_ the latter from _New Poems_.
AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN VERSE
AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN VERSE. Chosen by A. M. With an Introduction by
Robert Lynd. London (1921). (Methuen and Company.)
Contains: “Giorno dei Morti,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from _Look! We
Have Come Through!_
POETICA EROTICA
POETICA EROTICA. A Collection of Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. Edited
by T. R. Smith. Volume II. New York, 1921. (Boni and Liveright.)
Contains: “A Bad Beginning;” “Excursion;” “Last Words to Miriam;”
“Lilies in the Fire;” “Mystery;” “New Year’s Eve;” “New Year’s Night;”
“Reproach;” “Wedlock,” by Mr. Lawrence. These poems were reprinted from
_Love Poems_, _Amores_, and _Look! We Have Come Through!_
THE LE GALLIENNE BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE
THE LE GALLIENNE BOOK OF ENGLISH VERSE. Edited, with an Introduction, by
Richard Le Gallienne. New York, 1921. (Boni and Liveright.)
Contains: “All of Roses,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted apparently from
_Poetry_, although these same verses were in 1917 included in _Look! We
Have Come Through!_ under the title “River Roses.” A marvelous lyric,
however called.
GEORGIAN POETRY: 1920-1922
Published November 1922
GEORGIAN / POETRY / 1920-1922 / (_six small ornaments in triangular
arrangement_) / The Poetry Bookshop / 35 Devonshire St. Theobalds Rd. /
London W. C. 1 / MCMXXII
COLLATION:—pp. xiv+210, consisting of half-title (with
_Published November, 1922_ on verso), pp. (i, ii); title-page,
as above (with _To_ / _Alice Meynell_ / _Made and printed
in Great Britain._ on verso), pp. (iii, iv); _Prefatory
Note_, pp. (v-vii); p. (viii) blank; table of _Contents_, pp.
(ix-xiii); p. (xiv) blank; divisional fly-leaf, with _Lascelles
Abercrombie_ on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp.
3-200; divisional fly-leaf, with _Bibliography_ on recto (verso
blank), pp. (201, 202); _Bibliography_, pp. 203-207. Printers’
imprint at center of p. (208) as follows: (Stag and Tree
device), with lettering, _The_ / _Arden_ (device) _Press_ /
_W. H. Smith & Son_ / _The Arden Press_, / _Stamford Street_ /
_London, S. E. 1._ Pp. (209, 210) blank.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in bright red boards; front cover lettered in
gilt as follows: _Georgian Poetry_ / _1920-1922_ / _The Poetry Bookshop_
Backbone lettered across in gilt: _Georgian_ / _Poetry_ / _1920-1922_
/ _P_ (diamond) _B_ (on dark blue shield). Back cover blank. Top edges
gilt; fore edges uncut and in part unopened; bottom edges rough trimmed.
End-papers white.
In this volume of _Georgian Poetry_ Mr. Lawrence is represented by
“Snake.” This remarkable poem appeared in the _Dial_, July 1921, and was
later included in _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
A MISCELLANY OF POETRY: 1920-1922
A MISCELLANY OF POETRY (1920-1922). Edited by W. K. Seymour. London
(1922). (John G. Wilson.)
Contains: “Snake,” by Mr. Lawrence. This collection was, according to a
line of type in the volume, published in December, 1922.
SHORTER LYRICS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
SHORTER LYRICS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. Selected, with a foreword, by W.
H. Davies. London (1922). (Poetry Bookshop.)
Contains: “Gloire de Dijon;” “Service of All the Dead,” by Mr. Lawrence.
These poems were reprinted from _Look! We Have Come Through!_ The second
poem appears in this volume under the title “Giorno dei Morti.” Probably
Mr. Davies took it directly from _Georgian Poetry_: 1913-1915, where the
older title was used.
NEW VOICES
NEW VOICES: An Introduction to Contemporary Poetry. Marguerite Wilkinson.
New York, 1922. (The Macmillan Company.)
Contains: “Fireflies in the Corn,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from _Look!
We Have Come Through!_
THE NEW POETRY
THE NEW POETRY. Edited by Harriet Monroe and Alice C. Henderson, New
York, 1923. (The Macmillan Company.)
Contains: “A Woman and Her Dead Husband;” “Fireflies in the Corn;”
“Green;” “Grief;” “Service of All the Dead;” “Nostalgia;” “A Baby Asleep
after Pain;” “Tommies in the Train;” “Resurrection,” by Mr. Lawrence.
All but one of these poems were evidently reprinted from _Poetry_, edited
by the compilers of _New Poetry_. All but “Resurrection” have been
printed in certain of Mr. Lawrence’s volumes of verse: namely, _Amores_,
_Look! We Have Come Through!_, _New Poems_, and _Bay_.
BEST POEMS OF 1923
BEST POEMS OF 1923. Edited by L. A. G. Strong. Boston (1924). (Small,
Maynard and Company.)
Contains: “The Evening Land,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from _Birds,
Beasts and Flowers_.
THE LITTLE BOOK OF MODERN BRITISH VERSE
THE LITTLE BOOK OF MODERN BRITISH VERSE. Edited by Jessie B. Rittenhouse.
Boston and New York, 1924. (Houghton Mifflin Company.)
Contains: “Gloire de Dijon;” “A Baby Asleep after Pain;” “Nostalgia;”
“Snake,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from _Look! We Have Come Through!_,
_Bay_, and _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
SECOND SELECTIONS FROM MODERN POETS
SECOND SELECTIONS FROM MODERN POETS. Made by J. C. Squire. London (1924).
(Martin Secker.)
Contains: “Kangaroo;” “Snake;” “Man and Bat,” by Mr. Lawrence. All of
these poems were reprinted from _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
II. PROSE
GREAT MODERN ENGLISH STORIES
GREAT MODERN ENGLISH STORIES: An Anthology. Edited by E. J. O’Brien. New
York, 1919. (Boni and Liveright.)
Contains: “A Sick Collier,” by Mr. Lawrence. This story was reprinted
from _The Prussian Officer_.
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE
1920
ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE / By Leo Shestov / Authorised Translation / By
S. S. Koteliansky / With a Foreword by / D. H. Lawrence / London: Martin
Secker
COLLATION:—pp. 248, consisting of half-title (verso blank), pp.
(1, 2); title-page, as above (with _First published in England,
1920_ on verso), pp. (3, 4); biographical and bibliographical
_Note_ (verso blank), pp. (5, 6); _Foreword_, pp. 7-12;
divisional fly-leaf, with _Part I_ / _Zu fragmentarisch ist
Welt und Leben._ / _H. Heine._ on recto (verso blank), pp. (13,
14); text, pp. 15-(244). Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line,
at foot of p. (244) as follows: _The London and Norwich Press,
Limited, London and Norwich, England_ Pp. (245-248) blank.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in purple cloth; front and back covers blank;
backbone has white paper title-and-name label lettered across in purple
as follows: _All_ / _Things Are_ / _Possible_ / (diamond) / _Shestov_ Top
edges cut; fore edges unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
To this volume Mr. Lawrence contributed the “Foreword,” which occupies
pages 7-12.
THE NEW KEEPSAKE FOR THE YEAR 1921
Published December 1920
THE NEW (_two vertical lines_) LE NOUVEAU / KEEPSAKE / FOR (_two vertical
lines_) POUR / THE YEAR (_two vertical lines_) L’ANNEE / 1921 / Edited
by / X. M. Boulestin / With Plates Selected by / J. E. Laboureur /
Published for X. M. Boulestin, 102, George Street / Portman Square, W.,
by the Chelsea Book Club / 65, Cheyne Walk, S. W. / London (_two vertical
lines_) Paris
A note must suffice to describe this very beautiful anthology of English
and French verse, prose, woodcuts, etchings, etc. The edition of _The New
Keepsake_ was limited to 620 copies for general distribution; 50 copies
on Japanese vellum, numbered from 1 to 50; 20 copies on blue vellum,
numbered from 51 to 70; 550 copies on hand-made paper, numbered from 71
to 620. The blue vellum copies were bound in black buckram, lettered in
pink; those on hand-made paper were done in yellow buckram, lettered in
black. I have not seen a copy of this book on Japanese vellum. Copies
on this and blue vellum are, in the nature of things, now very scarce;
but the cheapest form of the book can still be bought from dealers at a
nominal advance over publication price, which was 18s. 6d.
“Adolf,” Mr. Lawrence’s contribution to _The New Keepsake_, occupies
pages 19-33. It is a beautiful story—one which should certainly find
a place in some future collection of his shorter pieces. “Adolf” was
published in the _Dial_, September, 1920.
THE GENTLEMAN FROM SAN FRANCISCO
1922
THE GENTLEMAN FROM / SAN FRANCISCO / AND OTHER STORIES / By / I. A. Bunin
/ Translated from the Russian by / S. S. Koteliansky and Leonard Woolf /
Published by Leonard & Virginia Woolf at / The Hogarth Press, Paradise
Road, Richmond / 1922
COLLATION:—pp. vi (preceded by leaf with signature _a_ on
recto, verso blank) + 88, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _Printed in
Great Britain_ / _by_ / _William Clowes and Sons, Limited,_
/ _London and Beccles._ on verso), pp. (iii, iv); table of
_Contents_ (verso blank), pp. v, (vi); text, pp. 1-86. P. (87)
is occupied by list of _Previous Publications_ of the Hogarth
Press; p. (88) has announcements of _Forthcoming Publications_
of the same. On title-page is tipped-in an erratum _Note_ as
follows: _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._
Crown 8vo, 7⅛ × 4¾; issued in decorated boards, with white paper
title-and-name label on front cover lettered in black as follows: (a
line) / _The Gentleman from_ / (small ornament) _San Francisco_ (small
ornament) / _and Other Stories._ / (small ornament) / _I. A. Bunin._ / (a
line). Paper label down the back lettered in black: _The Gentleman from
San Francisco. I. A. Bunin._ Back cover blank. All edges cut flush with
boards. End-papers white.
Mr. Lawrence’s contribution to this volume is pointed out in the erratum
note quoted in the collation.
THE NEW DECAMERON
1922
THE NEW DECAMERON / The Third Volume, Containing / Stories by / Compton
Mackenzie / J. D. Beresford / D. H. Lawrence / Desmond Coke / Michael
Sadleir / Norman Davey / Storm Jameson / Robert Keable / V. Sackville
West / and / Bill Nobbs / Oxford / Basil Blackwell / 1922
COLLATION:—pp. viii + 232, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (verso blank),
pp. (iii, iv); table of _Contents_, pp. v, vi; _A Note in
Summary of_ / _What Has Gone Before_, pp. vii, viii; text, pp.
(1)-(231). Printers’ imprint at foot of p. (231) as follows:
_Printed in Great Britain by Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ld.,_ /
_London and Aylesbury._ P. (232) is occupied by advertisements
of four books published by Basil Blackwell.
Crown 8vo, 7⅝ × 5; issued in light blue boards, with natural linen
cloth back; front and back covers blank; backbone has white paper
title-and-name label lettered across in dark blue as follows: _The New_
(small ornament) / _Decameron_ / (small ornament) / _Compton Mackenzie_
/ _J. D. Beresford_ / _D. H. Lawrence_ / _Michael Sadleir_ / _Robert
Keable_ / _and Others_ / (small ornament). Top edges unopened; fore edges
uncut and in part unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
Three volumes of _The New Decameron_, an interesting anthology of modern
prose tales, have thus far been published. To the third of these volumes
Mr. Lawrence contributed one of the greatest of his short stories—“Wintry
Peacock,” which occupies pages 123-146. Although this story was included
in _England, My England_, its first appearance between boards was as a
part of the above collection. Mr. Lawrence did not contribute to the
first two volumes of _The New Decameron_.
GEORGIAN STORIES
GEORGIAN STORIES. Selected by E. M. London, 1922. (Chapman and Hall.)
Contains: “The Shadow in the Rose Garden,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted
from _The Prussian Officer_.
THE BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES FOR 1923
THE BEST BRITISH SHORT STORIES FOR 1923. Selected by Edward J. O’Brien
and John Cournos. Boston (1924). (Small, Maynard and Company.)
Contains: “The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter,” by Mr. Lawrence. Reprinted from
_England, My England_.
STORIES FROM THE DIAL
Published August 1924
(_Ornament across top_) STORIES / FROM / THE DIAL / (_publisher’s
device_) / Lincoln MacVeagh / The Dial Press / New York (_dot_) MCMXXIV /
(_ornament across bottom_)
COLLATION:—pp. vi + 330, consisting of half-title (with list,
dated _1924_, of four books published _At the Sign of_ / _The
Cupid and Lion_ on verso), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above
(with _Copyright, 1924,_ / _By Dial Press, Incorporated_
/ _Printed in U. S. A._ / _Vail-Ballou Press, Inc._ /
_Binghampton and New York_ on verso), pp. (iii, iv); table of
_Contents_ (verso blank), pp. (v, vi); divisional half-title
(verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-321; p. (322) blank.
Divisional fly-leaf, with _Appendix_ on recto (verso blank),
pp. (323, 324); Appendix, pp. 325-330.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in batik boards, with dark blue cloth back,
approximating half-cloth; front and back covers blank; backbone lettered
across in gilt as follows: _Stories_ / _from the_ / _Dial_ / (small
ornament) / (publisher’s device) / _The Dial Press_ Top edges yellow and
cut; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers fawn-colored.
Mr. Lawrence is represented in this volume by “Rex,” a dog story, which
was published in the _Dial_, February, 1921.
The appendix of _Stories from the Dial_ gives brief accounts of the
authors represented in the anthology, together with check-lists of
their principal works. The bibliographical note on Mr. Lawrence is very
inaccurate.
MEMOIRS OF THE FOREIGN LEGION
Published September 1924
MEMOIRS OF THE / FOREIGN LEGION / By / M. M. / With an Introduction by /
D. H. Lawrence / 1924 / (_a line_) / London: Martin Secker
COLLATION:—pp. 320, consisting of two blank leaves, pp. (1-4);
half-title (verso blank), pp. (5, 6); title-page, as above
(with _London: Martin Secker (Ltd.)_ / _1924_ at foot of
verso), pp. (7, 8); divisional fly-leaf, with _Introduction_ on
recto (verso blank), pp. (9, 10); _Introduction_, pp. 11-94;
pp. (95, 96) blank; divisional half-title, with signature _G_
(verso blank), pp. (97, 98); _Publisher’s Note_—in all eight
lines (verso blank), pp. (99, 100); text, pp. 101-(320).
Printers’ imprint at foot of p. (320) as follows: _Printed in
Great Britain at_ / _The Mayflower Press, Plymouth. William
Brendon & Son, Ltd._
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in black cloth; front cover lettered in
gilt as follows: _Memoirs of the Foreign Legion_ / _By M. M._ Backbone
lettered across in gilt: _Memoirs_ / _of the_ / _Foreign_ / _Legion_ /
(small ornament) / _M. M._ / _Secker._ Back cover blank. Top edges red
and cut; fore edges rough trimmed; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers
white.
To this volume Mr. Lawrence contributed a long and brilliant
introduction; presumably, the editorial responsibility for the book was
also largely his—in all, an item of the first importance.
THE SHORT STORY’S MUTATIONS
THE SHORT STORY’S MUTATIONS. Frances Newman. New York, 1924. (B. W.
Huebsch.)
Contains: “The Shades of Spring,” by Mr. Lawrence. This story was
reprinted from _The Prussian Officer_.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO PERIODICALS
* The notes in this section, so far as they assign or do not assign
the various contributions to Mr. Lawrence’s books, must be understood
to refer to titles rather than to the selections themselves. No
consistent effort has been made to ascertain how many of the unassigned
contributions appear in the books under new titles. Some do so appear
and are noted, but my knowledge of them is the result of casual reading
rather than deliberate investigation.
I. POETRY
“A Still Afternoon” (—“Dreams Old and Nascent:” I. “Old,” II. “Nascent;”
“Discipline;” “Baby Movements:” I. “Running Barefoot,” II. “‘Trailing
Clouds’”). _English Review_, November, 1909. Included, with the exception
of the last, in _Amores_.
These poems constitute Mr. Lawrence’s first real appearance in print.
Before them, he says, “there was a youthful story in the bad grey print
of a provincial newspaper—under a _nom de plume_. But, thank God, that
has gone to glory in the absolute sense.”
“Night Songs” (—“Workaday Evenings:” I. “Yesternight,” II. “To-morrow
Night;” “Rebuked;” “Wakened;” “At the Window”). _English Review_, April,
1910. “At the Window” was included in _Amores_.
“Three Poems” (—I. “Tired of the Boat,” II. “Sigh No More,” III. “Ah,
Muriel!”). _English Review_, October, 1910. “Sigh No More” was included
in _New Poems_.
“Lightning;” “Violets.” _Nation_ (London), November 4, 1911. The first
included in _Love Poems_; the second in _New Poems_.
“The Schoolmaster” (—I. “Morning,” “Afternoon”). _Saturday Westminster
Gazette_, May 11, 1912.
“The Schoolmaster” (—II. “The Last Lesson”). _Saturday Westminster
Gazette_, May 18, 1912. Included in _Love Poems_, under the major caption
“Afternoon in School.”
“The Schoolmaster” (—III. “Evening,” IV. “The Punisher”). _Saturday
Westminster Gazette_, May 25, 1912. “The Punisher” was included in
_Amores_.
“The Schoolmaster” (—V. “A Snowy Day at School,” VI. “The Best of
School”). _Saturday Westminster Gazette_, June 1, 1912. Included in _Love
Poems_.
“Snap-Dragon.” _English Review_, June, 1912. Included in _Amores_.
“Green;” “All of Roses;” “Fireflies in the Corn;” “A Woman and Her Dead
Husband;” “The Wind, the Rascal;” “The Mother of Sons;” “Illicit;”
“Birthday.” _Poetry_, January, 1914. The first three poems and the
seventh were included in _Look! We Have Come Through!_—the second having
become “River Roses” and the seventh “On the Balcony.” The fourth, in
_New Poems_, became “The Bitterness of Death.”
“Two Poems” (—“Twilight;” “Meeting among the Mountains”). _English
Review_, February, 1914. These titles do not occur in any of Mr.
Lawrence’s books of poetry.
“Grief;” “Memories;” “Weariness;” “Service of All the Dead;” “Don Juan;”
“Song.” _Poetry_, December, 1914. Of these poems, “Service of All the
Dead” and “Don Juan” were included in _Look! We Have Come Through!_—the
former having become “Giorno dei Morti.”
“Last Words to Miriam.” _Poetry Journal_, December, 1916. Included in
_Amores_.
“Resurrection.” _Poetry_, June, 1917. This title does not occur in any of
Mr. Lawrence’s books of poetry.
“Three Poems” (—“The Sea;” “Constancy of a Sort;” “Frost Flowers”).
_English Review_, September, 1917. The first and the last were included
in _Look! We Have Come Through!_
“War-baby;” “Town;” “After the Opera.” _English Review_, June, 1918. All
of these poems were included in _Bay_.
“Moonrise;” “People.” _Poetry_, July, 1918. Included in _Look! We Have
Come Through!_
“Poems” (—“Tommies in the Train;” “War-baby;” “Obsequial Chant;” “Bread
upon the Waters;” “Pentecostal;” “Nostalgia”). _Poetry_, February, 1919.
All of these poems were included in _Bay_, but “Pentecostal” was renamed
for this volume and became “Shades.”
“War Films” (—“Mother’s Son in Saloniki;” “Casualty;” “Message to a
Perfidious Soldier;” “The Jewess and the V. C.;” “Sighs;” “The Child and
the Soldier;” “Zeppelin Nights;” “Daughter of the Great Man;” “Prisoner
at Work in a Turkish Garden;” “Mourning;” “The Grey Nurse;” “Neither Moth
Nor Rust”). _Poetry_, July, 1919. These titles do not occur in any of Mr.
Lawrence’s books of poetry.
“The Little Town at Evening.” _Monthly Chapbook_, July, 1919. Included in
_Bay_.
“Medlars and Sorb-apples.” _New Republic_, January 5, 1921. Included in
_Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
“The Revolutionary.” _New Republic_, January 19, 1921. _Literary Digest_,
October 29, 1921. Included in _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
“Pomegranate.” _Dial_, March, 1921. Included in _Birds, Beasts and
Flowers_.
“Apostolic Beasts” (—“Saint Mark;” “Saint Luke;” “Saint John”). _Dial_,
April, 1921. Included in _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
“Humming-Bird.” _New Republic_, May 11, 1921. _Nation_, October 10, 1923.
_Literary Digest_, October 20, 1923. _Bookman_, January, 1924. Included
in _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
“Mosquito.” _Bookman_, July, 1921. Included in _Birds, Beasts and
Flowers_.
“Snake.” _Dial_, July, 1921. Included in _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
“Medlars and Sorb-apples;” “Pomegranate.” _English Review_, August, 1921.
Included in _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
“The Revolutionary.” _English Review_, September, 1921. Included in
_Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
“Snake.” _London Mercury_, October, 1921. Included in _Birds, Beasts and
Flowers_.
“Almond Blossom.” _English Review_, February, 1922. Included in _Birds,
Beasts and Flowers_.
“Fish.” _English Review_, June, 1922. Included in _Birds, Beasts and
Flowers_.
“Fish” (Excerpts), _Literary Digest_, July 8, 1922.
“Bat;” “Tortoises;” “Baby Tortoise.” _English Review_, November, 1922.
All included in the English edition of _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_. The
tortoise poem was, in effect, reprinted from _Tortoises_, New York, 1921.
“The Evening Land;” “Turkey-Cock.” _Poetry_, November, 1922. Included in
_Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
“Bat.” _Literary Review_, December 30, 1922. Included in _Birds, Beasts
and Flowers_.
“St. Matthew.” _Poetry_, April, 1923. Included in _Birds, Beasts and
Flowers_.
“Elephant.” _English Review_, April, 1923. Included in _Birds, Beasts and
Flowers_.
“Nostalgia.” _Palms_, Midsummer, 1923. Reprinted from _Bay_.
“Three Poems” (—“Cypresses;” “Saint Matthew;” “Spirits Summoned West”).
_Adelphi_, October, 1923. All included in _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
“Poems” (—“Bare Almond Tree;” “Tropic;” “Humming-Bird;” “Peace”).
_Nation_, October 10, 1923. All included in _Birds, Beasts and Flowers_.
“Peace.” _Literary Digest_, October 20, 1923. Included in _Birds, Beasts
and Flowers_.
“Autumn in New Mexico.” _Palms_, Autumn, 1923. Included in _Birds, Beasts
and Flowers_ under the title “Autumn in Taos.”
“Four Poems” (—“Bombardment;” “After the Opera;” “The Little Town at
Evening;” “Last Hours”). _Palms_, Christmas, 1924. All of these poems
were reprinted from _Bay_.
II. PROSE
“Goose Fair.” _English Review_, February, 1910. Included in _The Prussian
Officer_.
“Odour of Chrysanthemums.” _English Review_, June, 1911. Included in _The
Prussian Officer_.
“A Fragment of Stained Glass.” _English Review_, September, 1911.
Included in _The Prussian Officer_.
“Second Best.” _English Review_, February, 1912. Included in _The
Prussian Officer_.
“The Miner at Home.” _Nation_ (London), March 16, 1912. A short prose
study.
“Christs in the Tyrol.” _Saturday Westminster Gazette_, March 22, 1912.
Included in _Twilight in Italy_.
“German Impressions”—I. “French Sons of Germany.” _Saturday Westminster
Gazette_, August 3, 1912.
“German Impressions”—II. “Hail in the Rhineland.” _Saturday Westminster
Gazette_, August 10, 1912.
“The Georgian Renaissance.” _Rhythm_, March, 1913. _Review of Georgian
Poetry_ (1911-1912).
“The Soiled Rose.” _Forum_, March, 1913. Included in
_The Prussian Officer_, under the title “The Shades of Spring.”
“The Soiled Rose.” _Blue Review_, May, 1913.
“German Books”—“Thomas Mann.” _Blue Review_, July, 1913. A short critical
essay.
“Derelict.” _Forum_, September, 1913. From _Sons and Lovers_ (Chapter XV).
“Italian Studies.” _English Review_, September, 1913. Included in
_Twilight in Italy_.
“Strike Pay”—I. “Her Turn.” _Saturday Westminster Gazette_, September 6,
1913.
“Strike Pay”—II. “Ephraim’s Half-Sovereign.” _Saturday Westminster
Gazette_, September 13, 1913.
“Vin Ordinaire.” _English Review_, June, 1914. Included in _The Prussian
Officer_, under the title “The Thorn in the Flesh.”
“Honour and Arms.” _English Review_, August, 1914. Title changed to “The
Prussian Officer;” included in the volume thus named.
“Honour and Arms.” _Metropolitan_, November, 1914.
“England, My England.” _English Review_, October, 1915. Included in
volume thus named.
“The Crown.” In three parts. _The Signature_, October 4, 18, and November
4, 1915. This exceedingly scarce item has never been reprinted. The
little magazine in which it appeared suspended after the third number.
In addition to this longish essay by Mr. Lawrence, _The Signature_
contains two stories, “Autumns” and “The Little Governess,” in two
parts, by Matilda Berry (Katherine Mansfield); and “There Was a Little
Man,” in three parts, by Mr. John Middleton Murry. The magazine contains
contributions by these three writers only.
“The Thimble.” _The Seven Arts_, March, 1917.
“Samson and Delilah.” _English Review_, March, 1917. Included in
_England, My England_.
“England, My England.” _Metropolitan_, April, 1917.
“The Reality of Peace.” In four parts. _English Review_, May, June, July,
and August, 1917.
“The Mortal Coil.” _The Seven Arts_, July, 1917.
“Love.” _English Review_, January, 1918.
“Life.” _English Review_, February, 1918.
“Introduction to Studies in Classic American Literature”—(i) “The Spirit
of Place.” _English Review_, November, 1918. Included in _Studies in
Classic American Literature_. Before their appearance in this book
practically all of the “Studies” here listed were severely revised, and
other essays were added.
“Studies in Classic American Literature”—(ii) “Benjamin Franklin.”
_English Review_, December, 1918. Included in _Studies in Classic
American Literature_.
“Studies in Classic American Literature”—(iii) “Henry St. John de
Crèvecœur.” _English Review_, January, 1919. Included in _Studies in
Classic American Literature_.
“Studies in Classic American Literature”—(iv) “Fenimore Cooper’s
Anglo-American Novels.” _English Review_, February, 1919. Included in
_Studies in Classic American Literature_.
“Studies in Classic American Literature”—(v) “Fenimore Cooper’s
Leatherstocking Novels.” _English Review_, March, 1919. Included in
_Studies in Classic American Literature_.
“Studies in Classic American Literature”—(vi) “Edgar Allan Poe.”
_English Review_, April, 1919. Included in _Studies in Classic American
Literature_.
“Tickets, Please.” _Strand_, April, 1919. Included in _England, My
England_.
“Studies in Classic American Literature”—(vii) “Nathaniel Hawthorne.”
_English Review_, May, 1919. Included in _Studies in Classic American
Literature_.
“Studies in Classic American Literature”—(viii) “The Two Principles.”
_English Review_, June, 1919.
“The Eleventh Commandment.” _Metropolitan_, August, 1919. Title changed
to “Tickets, Please;” included in _England, My England_.
“The Poetry of the Present.” _The Playboy_, Numbers 4-5 (undated).
Included, as the preface, in the American edition of _New Poems_.
“The Blind Man.” _English Review_, July, 1920. Included in _England, My
England_.
“The Blind Man.” _Living Age_, August 7, 1920. Reprinted from the
_English Review_.
“Adolf.” _Dial_, September, 1920. Included in _The New Keepsake for the
Year 1921_.
“America, Listen to Your Own.” _New Republic_, December 15, 1920.
“Rex.” _Dial_, February, 1921. Included in _Stories from the Dial_, where
it first appeared between boards.
“Whitman.” _Nation_ (London), July 23, 1921. Included in _Studies in
Classic American Literature_.
“Wintry Peacock.” _Metropolitan_, August, 1921. Included in _England,
My England_, also in _The New Decameron_, Volume III, where it first
appeared between boards.
“Sea and Sardinia: As Far As Palermo.” _Dial_, October, 1921. Included in
_Sea and Sardinia_.
“Sea and Sardinia: Cagliari.” _Dial_, November, 1921. Included in _Sea
and Sardinia_.
“Fannie and Annie.” _Hutchison’s_, November 21, 1921. Included in
_England, My England_.
“The Gentleman from San Francisco.” By I. Bunin. Translated by Samuel
Solomonovich and D. H. Lawrence. _Dial_, January, 1922. Included in _The
Gentleman from San Francisco and Other Stories_.
“Episode.” _Dial_, February, 1922. From _Aaron’s Rod_ (Chapter xiv).
“A Sick Collier.” _Pearson’s_ (American), February, 1922. Reprinted from
_The Prussian Officer_.
“The Horse-Dealer’s Daughter.” _English Review_, April, 1922. Included in
_England, My England_.
“The Fox.” Four parts. _Dial_, May, June, July, and August, 1922.
Included in _The Ladybird_ (London), and _The Captain’s Doll_ (New York).
“Monkey-Nuts.” _Sovereign_, August 22, 1922. Included in _England, My
England_.
“A Letter.” _Laughing Horse_, Number 4 (undated). This epistolary _coup
de grâce_, delivered against Mr. Ben Hecht’s _Fantazius Mallare_, was
held to be _contra bonos mores_ by the authorities of the University of
California; and the owners of _The Laughing Horse_ were asked to find
another box-stall for their _étalon intrepide_. Denied campus fodder, the
cachinating steed roamed a while the great open spaces of the Southwest,
where horses _are_ horses. He is now at Santa Fe, New Mexico. Number four
of _The Laughing Horse_ is excessively scarce.
“Certain Americans and an Englishman.” New York _Times Magazine_,
December 24, 1922.
“Indians and an Englishman.” With painting of D. H. Lawrence, by Jan
Juta. _Dial_, February, 1923.
“Taos.” _Dial_, March, 1923. This and the other unassigned essays, above
and below, dealing with the Indians and other aspects of American life,
are, of course, still uncollected.
“Surgery for the Novel—or a Bomb.” _International Book Review_, April,
1923.
“Model Americans.” Review of Stuart P. Sherman’s _Americans_. _Dial_,
May, 1923. Mr. Lawrence tackles the right and left ends of American
criticism.
“Trees and Babies and Papas and Mammas.” _Adelphi_, June, 1923. From
_Fantasia of the Unconscious_ (Chapter iv).
“Education and Sex.” _Adelphi_, July, 1923. From _Fantasia of the
Unconscious_ (Chapter viii).
“At Taos: An Englishman Looks at Mexico.” _Cassell’s Weekly_, July 11,
1923.
“The Saint Joseph’s Ass.” By Giovanni da Verga. Translated by D. H.
Lawrence. _Adelphi_, September, 1923.
“On Love and Marriage.” _Adelphi_, September, 1923. From _Fantasia of the
Unconscious_ (Chapters xi and xii).
“A Spiritual Record:” Review of _A Second Contemporary Verse Anthology_.
New York _Evening Post Literary Review_, September 29, 1923.
“Across the Sea.” By Giovanni Verga. Translated by D. H. Lawrence.
_Adelphi_, November, 1923.
“Indians and an Englishman.” _Adelphi_, November, 1923.
“Au Revoir, U. S. A.” _Laughing Horse_, Number 8 (undated).
“The Proper Study.” _Adelphi_, December, 1923.
“The Proper Study of Mankind.” _Vanity Fair_, January, 1924.
“On Being Religious.” _Adelphi_, February, 1924.
“On Human Destiny.” _Adelphi_, March, 1924.
“Liberty.” By Giovanni Verga. Translated by D. H. Lawrence. _Adelphi_,
May, 1924.
“On Human Destiny.” _Vanity Fair_, May, 1924.
“Dear Old Horse: A London Letter;” “The Bad Girl in the Pansy Bed:” A
drawing, by D. H. Lawrence. _Laughing Horse_, Number 10, May, 1924.
“On Being a Man.” _Vanity Fair_, June, 1924.
“The Dance of the Sprouting Corn;” with “The Corn Dance:” A drawing, by
D. H. Lawrence. _Theatre Arts Monthly_, July, 1924.
“The Dance of the Sprouting Corn.” _Adelphi_, August, 1924.
“The Borderline.” _Smart Set_, September, 1924.
“On Being a Man.” _Adelphi_, September, 1924.
“Just Back from the Snake-Dance—Tired Out.” _Laughing Horse_, Number 11,
September, 1924.
“Jimmy and the Desperate Woman.” _Criterion_, October, 1924.
“Indians and Entertainment.” New York _Times Magazine_, October 26, 1924.
“Indians and Entertainment.” _Adelphi_, November, 1924.
“The Hopi Snake Dance.” Part I. _Adelphi_, January, 1925.
“The Hopi Snake Dance.” Part II. _Adelphi_, February, 1925.
STUDIES AND REVIEWS OF D. H. LAWRENCE
I. IN BOOKS
Björkman, Edwin. Introduction to _The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd_. New
York, 1914. (Mitchell Kennerley.)
James, Henry. _Notes on Novelists._ London, 1914. (J. M. Dent and Sons.)
Bickley, Francis. “Some Tendencies in Contemporary Poetry.” In _New
Paths_, edited by C. W. Beaumont and M. T. H. Sadler. London (1918). (C.
W. Beaumont.)
George, W. L. _Literary Chapters._ Boston, 1918. (Little, Brown and
Company.)
Waugh, Arthur. _Tradition and Change._ London, 1919. (Chapman and Hall.)
Aiken, Conrad. _Skepticisms: Notes on Contemporary Poetry._ New York,
1919. (Alfred A. Knopf.)
Cunliffe, J. W. _English Literature During the Last Half Century._ New
York, 1919. (The Macmillan Company.)
Goldring, Douglas. _Reputations: Essays in Criticism._ London, 1920.
(Chapman and Hall.)
Monro, Harold. _Some Contemporary Poets._ London, 1920. (Leonard Parsons.)
Phelps, William L. _The Advance of English Poetry._ New York, 1921.
(Dodd, Mead and Company.)
Manly, J. M. and Rickert, Edith. _Contemporary British Literature._ New
York, 1921. (Harcourt, Brace and Company.)
Macy, John. Introduction to _Sons and Lovers._ The Modern Library. New
York, 1922. (Boni and Liveright.)
Garnett, Edward. _Friday Nights._ New York, 1922. (Alfred A. Knopf.)
Macy, John. _The Critical Game._ New York, 1922. (Boni and Liveright.)
Collins, Joseph. _The Doctor Looks at Literature._ New York, 1923.
(George H. Doran Company.)
Shanks, Edward. _First Essays on Literature._ London (1923). (W. Collins.)
Van Doren, Carl. _The Roving Critic._ New York, 1923. (Alfred A. Knopf.)
Seligmann, Herbert J. _D. H. Lawrence: An American Interpretation._
New York, 1924. Collation as follows: D. H. LAWRENCE / An American
Interpretation / By / Herbert J. Seligmann / (_publisher’s device_) / New
York / Thomas Seltzer / 1924
COLLATION:—pp. viii + 80, consisting of half-title (verso
blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with _Copyright,
1924, by_ / _Thomas Seltzer, Inc._ / (a line) / _All Rights
Reserved_ / _Printed in the United States of America_ on
verso), pp. (iii, iv); dedication, _To_ / _Alfred Stieglitz_
(verso blank), pp. (v, vi); divisional _half-title_ (verso
blank), pp. (vii, viii); text, pp. 1-74; _Biographical Note_,
pp. 75, 76; _Bibliography_ (verso blank), pp. 77, (78); pp.
(79, 80) blank. There is no printer’s imprint.
Crown 8vo, 7⁷⁄₁₆ × 5⅛; issued in black cloth; front cover has white
title-and-name label lettered as follows: _D. H. Lawrence_ / _An American
Interpretation_ / _by_ / _Herbert J. Seligmann_ Lettering enclosed by
one-line black border: _D. H. Lawrence_ in red; remainder in black. White
paper title-and-name label down the back lettered: _D. H. Lawrence_ (in
red) _by Herbert J. Seligmann_ (in black). Back cover blank. Top edges
cut; fore and bottom edges uncut. End-papers white.
This was the first extended study of the writings of Mr. Lawrence. It
contains, after an introductory statement, the following chapters: Poems;
Prose; Wandering; Philosophy and Criticism. The book was also issued in
wrappers—simultaneously with the above.
Canby, Henry S. _Definitions._ New York, 1924. (Harcourt, Brace and
Company.)
Gould, Gerald. _The English Novel of To-day._ London, 1924. (John Castle.)
Brewster, Dorothy, and Burrell, Angus. _Dead Reckonings in Fiction._ New
York and London, 1924. (Longmans, Green and Company.)
Newman, Frances. _The Short Story’s Mutations._ New York, 1924. (B. W.
Huebsch.)
Douglas, Norman. _D. H. Lawrence and Maurice Magnus_: A Plea for Better
Manners. N. P. 1924. (Privately printed.)
Rosenfeld, Paul. _Men Seen._ New York, 1925. (The Dial Press.)
II. IN PERIODICALS
Anonymous. Reviews of _The White Peacock_. _Athenæum_, February 25, 1911;
_Saturday Review_, May 13, 1911.
Cooper, F. T. Review of _The White Peacock_. _Bookman_ (American), April,
1911.
Anonymous. Reviews of _The Trespasser_. _Athenæum_, June 1, 1912;
_Saturday Review_, June 22, 1912; New York _Times Book Review_, November
17, 1912.
Anonymous. Reviews of _Sons and Lovers_. _Athenæum_, June 21, 1913;
_Saturday Review_, June 21, 1913; New York _Times Book Review_, September
21, 1913; _Independent_, October 9, 1913; _Outlook_, December 6, 1913;
_Nation_ (New York), December 11, 1913.
Pound, Ezra. Review of _Love Poems and Others_. _Poetry_, July, 1913.
Anonymous. Reviews of _The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd_. _Independent_,
May 25, 1914; _Nation_ (New York), July 23, 1914; New York _Times Book
Review_, October 4, 1914.
Anonymous. Reviews of _The Prussian Officer_. _Saturday Review_, January
9, 1915; _Athenæum_, January 23, 1915.
Woodbridge, H. E. Review of _The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd_. _Dial_,
January 16, 1915.
Shakespear, O. “The Poetry of D. H. Lawrence.” _Egoist_, May 1, 1915.
Hale, Jr., E. E. “New Realists.” _Independent_, August 30, 1915.
Shorter, Clement. “Literary Letter.” _Sphere_, October 23, 1915.
Discusses _The Rainbow_.
de Tunzelmann, G. W. Letter. _Athenæum_, November 20, 1915.
Anonymous. “Suppression of Lawrence’s _Rainbow_.” _Current Opinion_,
February, 1916.
Anonymous. Reviews of _Twilight in Italy_. London _Times Literary
Supplement_, June 15, 1916; _Review of Reviews_, February, 1917.
Anonymous. Reviews of _Amores_. London _Times Literary Supplement_,
August 10, 1916; New York _Times Book Review_, November 16, 1916; _Review
of Reviews_, December, 1916.
Bickley, Francis. Review of _Amores_ and _Twilight in Italy_. _Bookman_
(English), October, 1916.
Garnett, Edward. “Art and the Moralists: Mr. D. H. Lawrence’s Work.”
_Dial_, November 16, 1916.
Boynton, H. W. Review of _The Prussian Officer_. _Bookman_ (American),
February, 1917.
E. T. (Eunice Tietjens). Review of _Amores_. _Poetry_, February, 1917.
Fletcher, John Gould. Review of _Look! We Have Come Through!_ _Poetry_,
August, 1918.
Anonymous. Reviews of _New Poems_. _Athenæum_, February, 1919; London
_Times Literary Supplement_, February 6, 1919; _Nation_ (New York),
October 13, 1920.
Lowell, Amy. Review of _Look! We Have Come Through!_ New York _Times Book
Review_, April 20, 1919.
Arens, Egmont. “Self-determination for Souls.” _Playboy_, Number 3
(undated).
Aiken, Conrad. Review of _Look! We Have Come Through!_ _Dial_, August 9,
1919.
Cannan, Gilbert. Letter: “A Defense of D. H. Lawrence.” New York
_Tribune_, January 10, 1920.
Gorman, H. S. Review of _New Poems_. New York _Times Book Review_, July
4, 1920.
Fletcher, John Gould. Review of _New Poems_. _Freeman_, July 21, 1920.
Seldes, Gilbert. Review of _Touch and Go_. _Dial_, August, 1920.
Untermeyer, Louis. “D. H. Lawrence.” _New Republic_, August 11, 1920.
Lowell, Amy. Review of _Touch and Go_. New York _Times Book Review_,
August 22, 1920.
Weaver, R. M. Review of _New Poems_. _Bookman_ (American), September,
1920.
Towse, J. R. Review of _Touch and Go_. New York _Evening Post_, November
27, 1920.
Lippmann, Walter. “Apropos of Mr. Lawrence: The Crude Barbarian and the
Noble Savage.” _New Republic_, December 15, 1920.
de Pue, Elva. Review of _Touch and Go_. _Freeman_, December 15, 1920.
Colum, Padraic. Review of _Sea and Sardinia_. _Dial_, February, 1921.
F. H. (Francis Hackett). “The Surplus Woman:” Review of _The Lost Girl_.
_New Republic_, March 16, 1921.
Macy, John. Review of _The Lost Girl_. New York _Evening Post Literary
Review_, March 19, 1921.
Scott, Evelyn. Review of _The Lost Girl_. _Dial_, April, 1921.
Colum, M. M. “The Quality of D. H. Lawrence:” Review of _The Lost Girl_.
_Freeman_, June 22, 1921.
Buermeyer, L. L. Review of _Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious_. New York
_Evening Post Literary Review_, July 16, 1921.
Soule, George. Review of _Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious_. _Nation_,
July 27, 1921.
Hackett, Francis. Review of _Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious_. _New
Republic_, August 17, 1921.
Crawford, N. A. Review of _New Poems_. _Poetry_, September, 1921.
Williams-Ellis, A. “Mr. D. H. Lawrence’s Work.” _Spectator_, October 1,
1921.
Van Doren, Carl. Review of _Sea and Sardinia_. _Nation_, January 4, 1922.
Hackett, Francis. “A Week in D. H. Lawrence:” Review of _Sea and
Sardinia_. _New Republic_, January 11, 1922.
Anonymous. “D. H. Lawrence’s Dark and Vehement Genius.” _Current
Opinion_, February, 1922.
Fuller, H. B. “Sardinian Days:” Review of _Sea and Sardinia_. _Freeman_,
March 1, 1922.
Field, L. M. Review of _Aaron’s Rod_. New York _Times Book Review_, April
30, 1922.
Boynton, H. W. Review of _Aaron’s Rod_. _Independent_, May 27, 1922.
Krutch, J. W. Review of _Aaron’s Rod_. _Nation_, June 7, 1922.
West, Rebecca. Review of _Aaron’s Rod_. _New Statesman_, July 8, 1922.
Gould, Gerald. Review of _Aaron’s Rod_. _Saturday Review_, July 15, 1922.
Murry, J. M. Review of _Aaron’s Rod_. _Nation and Athenæum_, August 12,
1922.
Forman, H. J. “With D. H. Lawrence in Sicily.” New York _Times Book
Review_, August 27, 1922. This, it seems to me, is the finest short
estimate of Mr. Lawrence as man and as artist.
Burman, B. L. Review of _England, My England_, _Fantasia of the
Unconscious_, and _Women in Love_. _Nation_, January 17, 1923.
Colton, Arthur W. “English Types and Settings:” Review of _England, My
England_. New York _Evening Post Literary Review_, February 10, 1923.
Anonymous. Reviews of _The Ladybird_ (_The Captain’s Doll_). London
_Times Literary Supplement_, March 22, 1923; _Spectator_, April 14, 1923;
New York _Times Book Review_, April 22, 1923.
Gould, Gerald. Review of _The Ladybird_. _Saturday Review_, March 31,
1923.
Mortimer, Raymond. Review of _The Ladybird_. _New Statesman_, March 31,
1923.
Arnold, M. “D. H. Lawrence and the Book of the Spinster.” _Bookman_
(American), April, 1923.
Shanks, E. “Mr. D. H. Lawrence: Some Characteristics.” London _Mercury_,
May, 1923.
Brock, I. Review of _Studies in Classic American Literature_. New York
_Times Book Review_, September 16, 1923.
Macy, John. “The American Spirit:” Review of _Studies in Classic American
Literature_. _Nation_, October 10, 1923.
Canby, H. S. “Critics from Abroad.” New York _Evening Post Literary
Review_, October 13, 1923.
Sherman, Stuart P. “America Is Discovered:” Review of _Studies in Classic
American Literature_. New York _Evening Post Literary Review_, October
20, 1923.
Daniels, K. L. “Mr. Lawrence on American Literature.” _New Republic_,
October 24, 1923.
Arvin, Newton. “Mr. D. H. Lawrence’s Criticism.” _Freeman_, October 31,
1923.
Anonymous. Reviews of _Kangaroo_. London _Times Literary Supplement_,
September 20, 1923; New York _Times Book Review_, October 14, 1923.
Mortimer, Raymond. Review of _Kangaroo_. _New Statesman_, September 19,
1923.
Gerhardi, William. “Mr. Lawrence and the Wreck of the Love Service.”
_Adelphi_, November, 1923.
Krutch, J. W. “Wasteland:” Review of _Kangaroo_. _Nation_, November 7,
1923.
Canby, H. S. Review of _Kangaroo_. New York _Evening Post Literary
Review_, November 17, 1923.
Van Doren, Mark. “In the Image of Bigness:” Review of _Birds, Beasts and
Flowers_. _Nation_, December 5, 1923.
Gregory, A. “Artist Turned Prophet.” _Dial_, January, 1924.
Muir, Edwin. “Poetry in Becoming.” _Freeman_, January 2, 1924.
Lesemann, M. “D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico.” _Bookman_, March, 1924.
Watson, E. L. G. “On Hell and Mr. Lawrence.” _English Review_, March,
1924.
Aiken, Conrad. “Mr. Lawrence, Sensationalist:” Review of _Studies in
Classic American Literature_. _Nation and Athenæum_, July 12, 1924.
Anonymous. “Mr. Lawrence’s American Studies.” London _Times Literary
Supplement_, July 24, 1924.
Wolfe, Humbert. “D. H. Lawrence in the Wilderness:” Review of _The Boy in
the Bush_. _Weekly Westminster_, September 27, 1924.
Morris, Lloyd. “Mr. Lawrence on the Frontiers of Civilization:” Review of
_The Boy in the Bush_. New York _Times Book Review_, October 26, 1924.
Douglas, A. Donald. “Lawrence Old and New:” Review of _The Boy in the
Bush_ and _The Rainbow_. Philadelphia _Public Ledger Literary Review_,
November 9, 1924.
Josephson, Matthew. “Precocious Superman:” Review of _The Boy in the
Bush_. _Saturday Review of Literature_, November 29, 1924.
Roberts, R. Ellis. “A Soldier of the Legion:” Review of _Memoirs of the
Foreign Legion_. _Weekly Westminster_, November 29, 1924.
Muir, Edwin. “D. H. Lawrence.” _Nation_, February 11, 1925.
Tomlinson, H. M. “D. H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas.” _Weekly
Westminster_, February 14, 1925.
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