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Lawrence, D. H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Probably 1st edition, no later printing stated; slight wear.
Seller: Ann Becker, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D.H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$14.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in grey cloth, sans DW; previous owner's name on front paste down; notation in pencil on rear paste down, with small book store label; 347pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description:
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
D.H. Lawrence. AARON"S ROD. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 x 7 inches. 347 pages. 3rd printing, July 1922. Condition is Good+; light spotting on front cover, small hole in cloth on front soine edge, small tears at spine ends, endpapers lightly foxed, light water stain in lower margins of pages, binding is tight. STK
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
D.H. Lawrence. AARON'S ROD. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 5 x 8 in. Cloth boards. Condition is GOOD+ ; corners worn, spine ends have small tears, spine toned. Binding tight and text unmarked. Fic. Stax
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Aaron's Rod. NY: Thomas Seltzer, 1922.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good hardcover w/out dj."Second Printing, April 1922" stated to copyright page. 347pp.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Aaron's Rod. NY: Thomas Seltzer, 1922.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good hardcover w/out dj (name and place written in pen to lower right corner of front free endpaper; bookplate to upper front pastedown; slight spinal darkening; small paper bookstore label to lower rear pastedown). First Edition, First Printing. 347pp. With protective glassine dj.
Seller: Peter Lenz Bookseller, Cohoes, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, 1922.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 3rd printing. In green cloth. Light wear to corners. No jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. AARON'S ROD. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$24.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 347p. Gift note on front endpaper, stains on page fore edges. cover edges and corners scraped with fade spot on front. [Roberts & Poplawski; A21a] (7-5/8"x5-1/4")
Seller: Champ & Mabel Collectibles, San Pedro, CA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 19 x 13 cm 12mo. 347pp. Bound in blue-grey cloth. First American edition with no additional printings noted and 1922 on title and copyright page. Light scuffing to the cloth at the spine. Nice copy.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
D.H. Lawrence. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, 1922.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: 3rd Printing. Very Good condition.
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
D H Lawrence. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, 1922.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1922 Thomas Seltzer, Third printing, blue cloth hardcover with dust jacket, DJ has tanned spine and edges, chips missing at top of DJ spine, book is unmarked, 347 pages
Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, 1922.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good ; No jacket. 1922 Thomas Seltzer, New York. First Edition. First printing. Date on title page matches copyright on verso. No additional printings listed. Publisher's colophon on title page. Precedes British edition. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has slate blue cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering and a blind-stamped cross design on the front cover. 347 pages. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with minor fraying at tips. Spine ends bumped. Spine slightly darkened, lettering a bit faded. Name in ink on front endpaper and again at the top of the title page; "First Edition" written in ink on front free endpaper. Light foxing on endpapers. Text pages clean and unmarked. One page has a wrinkle at the bottom corner; this is a flaw in the paper, rather than later damage, and the page protrudes slightly from the text block at that corner. Page edges lightly soiled. Pages lightly tanned, more so at periphery, but still supple. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
Seller: SmarterRat Books, Chagrin Falls, OH, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Aaron's Rod.. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922, New York, 1922.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition. Name and date in ink fep, page edges somewhat soiled, slight corner bumps, else near fine.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Aaron's rod.. Thomas Seltzer. New York., 1922.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book bound in blue cloth with bright Gil lettering on the front cover and faded lettering on the spine. Light wear to the spine tips and cover corners & light wear on the spine edges. Back hinge starting to crack. Contents clean, unmarked with a strong binding. First American Edition, precedes the British edition.
Seller: Richard Peterson-Bookseller, Kingston, ON, Canada
Lawrence, D.H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, NY, 1922.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 347 pgs., 8vo Gray cloth binding, clean covers, one corner bumped, spine ends show rubbing at very edges. Small book label on rear pastedown and on last two pages the prior owner pencilled some interesting comments, a small essay actually, about the book and author, who is appreciated but faulted for 'slangy' writing in parts of his books. Very good condition (no dust jacket).
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer Inc., New York., 1922.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Description: Dark blue-gray cloth over boards, vertically ribbed. Black titles, upper right quadrant. 347 p. 20 cm. Blind-stamped front impression as with a cross: single vertical and horizontal lines Fiction, D.H. Lawrence, b.1888-d.1930, 7th of 12 novels, six years before "Lady Chatterley's Lover", amidst his works of poetry, short stories, literary criticism, plays, and essays. Introduced with Aaron Sisson returning home late to is family following a Miner's Union meeting, after the World War. It was near Christmas. Very good. No dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. Light corner, spine end rubs. Top edges have light bleached spots. Minor end paper foxing. Well-bound. Second printing, April, 1922; 1st was also April, 1922. 1
Seller: Hedgehog's Whimsey BOOKS etc., Newport, NH, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, 1922.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG
Seller: Mythos Center Books, Frontenac, MN, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo., 347pp. First Edition. Original gray cloth with Gilt titling. Light bumping to spine extremities. Lettering on spine starting to fade. Some light shelf-wear. Looks like front end-paper excised. Still, a tight, collectable copy.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D,H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, NY, 1922.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 347 pgs, Blue cloth binding, original U.S. publisher. Cloth is blue-gray and a piece of the back-strip is missing at head (1/2"). Internally clean and tight copy. Fair condition (no dust jacket).
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, NY, 1922.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 347 pgs. 8vo, An ex-library copy, which could by "sophisticated" and made collectible. Has an attractive paste-down library bookplate, without extra catalog marks, and the read=r pocket has ben decently excised. A period-aged pastedown ov er the rear pocket roughness, and similar "false fly" before the title page would leave olny the spine catalog number to carefully color blend into invisibility. The book is a 2nd printing, with a perforation library stamp that is at least honest and tolerable in a private library. A strong Lawrence novel, worthy of restoring. Good condition, needing some cosmetic restoration.
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. AARON'S ROD. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922., 1922.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition: Roberts A-21. Original blue/gray ribbed cloth with titles in darker blue and cover rules in blind; FACSIMILE dust jacket. Several faint clear stains to the covers, front endpaper removed, attractive bookplate to the half-title page with former's signature above, short tear to the half-title page, else very good; in a fine FACSIMILE dust jacket. Written in the years following World War I and set in post-war England and Italy, this book satirizes much of the accepted social and political institutions of Lawrence's own generation. THE U.S. EDITION PRECEDES THE U.K.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
D. H. Lawrence. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$57.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first US edition, second printing of D. H. Lawrence's picaresque novel Aaron's Rod. The first US edition, second printing of this work, published in the same month as the first, in the publisher's original cloth binding. Ink inscription to the front free end paper. Aaron's Rod is a picaresque novel by the notable modernist author D. H. Lawrence, whose most well-known works were the subject of censorship trials for their explicit language and portrayals of sexuality. He is now held to be an imaginative writer of artistic integrity. Aaron's Rod was first published in the US by Thomas Seltzer in April 1922, closely followed by this second printing within the same month, before the UK edition was published in June 1922. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally sound, with marks to the front board, and fading and shelf wear to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright with the odd spot throughout. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D,H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, NY, 1922.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: 347 pgs, The best condition copy we currently have. Blue cloth binding, original U.S. publisher. Slightly frayed ends with minimal damage there. Cloth is blue-gray and clean. Internally nice and very tight copy. Very good condition (no dust jacket).
Seller: Old Book Surfer, Cambridge, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, 1922.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first American edition, published by Thomas Seltzer in 1922. Bound in publisher's slate blue cloth, blindstamped and lettered in a darker blue. A very good copy of the book with a touch of wear at the extremities and a diminutive prior owner's signature partially hidden in front gutter. A facsimile dust jacket is provided.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE D.H.. Aaron's Rod.. 1922, 1922.
Price: US$100.77 + shipping
Description: New York: Thomas Seltzer 1922. 8vo. Orig. navy blue cloth with gilt title to front cover & spine (dulled). (348pp.). The true 1st edition published 14 April 1922 by Seltzer in New York whilst the 1st English edition was published by Martin Secker in June 1922.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
D. H. Lawrence. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$131.25 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. No jacket. Blue cloth over boards with debossed borders and black lettering to front and spine. Some rubbing on back panel and at extremities, overall fine. Pencil marks on ffep. The interior is eevnly toned, otherwise clean and clear. Considered a picaresque novel, the author started writing in 1918 but didn't finish until 1921. Pages:347 Dimensions:7½ x 5½ x 1½.
Seller: John and Tabitha's Kerriosity Bookshop, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
D.H. Lawrence. Aaron's Rod. Grosset & Dunlop, 1922.
Price: US$179.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, First Edition, 1922,copyright by Thomas Seltzer, Second Printing. Black cloth boards with tonal"gd" on lower right front board . Spine is green and black checkered design. Binding in very good condition with slight rubbing and tearing on both the top and bottom. Pages are in very good shape with minor underlining from prior owner. 347 pps.
Seller: Taylor & Baumann Books, LLC, Ridgefield, CT, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D H. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, NY, 1922.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A bright, tight edition. Slate-blue boards are well-bound w/light rubbing at edges; bumps at spine ends. Pages clean & sharp throughout.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Aaron's Rod. Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1922.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 347 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Roberts A21a Gray-Blue ribbed cloth, lettered in blue. Fine
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Aaron's Rod DJ. THOMAS SELTZER, NEW YORK, 1922.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: The stated 3rd printing of the First Edition. good cover and spine. both covers of DJ are glued to hard covers. foxing to front endpaper. light foxing to pages. black illustration to title page. DATE PUBLISHED: 1922 EDITION: FIRST ED 347
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. AARON'S ROD. , 1922.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Description: New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922. Original blue-grey cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this novel, published about two months before Secker's UK edition. It is the picaresque tale of Aaron Sisson, a flute-playing coal miner -- who abandons his wife and the mines to try to make a living with his flute. According to the dust jacket, this constitutes the final volume in Lawrence's trilogy beginning with THE RAINBOW and WOMEN IN LOVE. Everyone, even Frieda, hated the book except Seltzer, who had written from America that the book was wonderful. Secker apparently had some difficulty in accepting the manuscript as it was and begged Lawrence to make alterations, which Lawrence refused to do. However, someone, perhaps without Lawrence's knowledge, excised sections [including one about the Royal Family] from the Secker text which remained in the American edition. and which have not been replaced in any English edition of the novel. [Roberts] An example of this is the conversation about the Battenbergs changing their name to Mount Batten, here on page 132. This copy is in dark blue-grey cloth with lettering in gilt (Roberts's variant 2); the other (more common) variant has the lettering in black or dark blue. This volume is just about fine, without wear or soil; the gilt on the spine could be a little brighter, and there is an unusual bookplate on the front paste-down; the $2.00-priced dust jacket, showing the flute, is near-fine (spine slightly darkened, a touch of wear at the top of its spine). Roberts A21. Housed in a handsome morocco-backed clamshell case with red leather label.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D.H.. Aaron's Rod.. New York, Thomas Seltzer, 1922., 1922.
Price: US$1700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original blue/gray cloth, stamped in dark blue. Attractive dust jacket printed in red and black with a design of a flute (price clipped; a few nicks and short tears). Very good-fine. No signatures or bookplates. Roberts A 21 - the British edition appeared two years later.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D. H.. Aaron's Rod.. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1922, 1922.
Price: US$3542.72 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Bettina from D.H.L." Elizabeth Humes (1894-1970) was a European-based American trade commissioner whom Lawrence met in Capri, Italy, in 1920. Five years later, he fictionalized her and her mother as the principal characters of his novella St. Mawr, Lou Carrington and her mother Mrs Witt. Humes took as her fiancé Jan Juta, the South African-born painter who illustrated Lawrence's Sea and Sardinia (1921). The year following the publication of Aaron's Rod, Lawrence expressed his fondness for Humes in a letter to Gilbert Seldes: "If you go to Vienna, look up Elizabeth Humes, at the Office of the American Commercial Commission. I'm sure you'd like her. My wife & I like her very much" (Moore, Letters, II, p. 741). "In this and subsequent novels Lawrence's voice often, quite consciously, came from the sidelines; in them he would stage guerrilla attacks as well as full-frontal assaults; his writing would be goading, insistent, revelatory. In Aaron's Rod he went closer than ever before to writing directly about sexual experience" (ODNB). The American edition precedes the British by two months. This copy is in the first variant binding, lettered in black rather than gilt; there is no priority. Roberts & Poplawski A21(a.1). Harry T. Moore, The Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, 1962, & The Intelligent Heart: The Story of D. H. Lawrence, 1955. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, front cover ruled in blind. With supplied dust jacket. Spine creased and rubbed, dent to foot of rear cover with concomitant rumpling of cloth and leaves, contents lightly toned, scattered foxing; jacket faintly soiled, red colours still bright, nicks and shallow chips to extremities, short closed tear to foot of front spine fold, unclipped: a good copy in very good jacket.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom