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Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: (Westminster). (Beaumont Press). 12mo. LIMITED NUMBERED 1st EDITION, one of 120 copies (of 200 total). Some rubbing to spine ends and edges of lightly toned covers, barely exposing boards. Several leaves unopened. Dust soiling to top edge of text block. VG.
Seller: Strand Book Store, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: "A Book of Poems" by D.H. Lawrence. Beaumont Press, 1919, wood-engraved illustrations by Anne Estelle Rice, original cloth-backed boards, small bump to lower cover, 8vo, limited edition 158/200. Rare.
Seller: Neverland Books, waalre, Netherlands
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert). Bay: A Book of Poems. Westminster: The Beaumont Press, 1919.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated with hand colored woodcuts by Anne Estelle Rice. First edition, limited issue of 200 numbered copies, this being one of 50 copies printed on cartridge paper. Publisher's green cloth and yellow patterned boards, lettered in gilt. About fine, corners very lightly bumped, former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, fresh interior. A beautiful copy. Roberts A12.b. An exceedingly rare publication, Bay was first published in several short print runs. This first edition is one of 200 copies, and only 50 copies, like this copy, are printed on cartridge paper with hand colored illustrations. According to the publisher, roughly 25 of the 50 cartridge paper copies were not sold due to an accident, lowering the total number of obtainable copies of Bay to 175 (63 of which are housed in institutional libraries' special collections) and making these copies the scarcest of the three variants. The remaining 150 copies are comprised of 120 copies printed on handmade paper (A12.a) and 30 printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author and illustrator (A12.c). Bay is a collection of eighteen of Lawrence's poems, including "The Little Town at Evening," "After the Opera," "Bombardment," "Bread Upon the Waters," "Tommies in the Train," "War-Baby," and "Nostalgia," among others. As Roberts explains in his bibliography, these poems "comprise the greater part of Lawrence's literary reaction to the war." Notably, Bay was the first of Lawrence's books to be "issued in an expensive format from a private press," a practice he would continue with many of his subsequent works.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert). Bay: A Book of Poems. Westminster: The Beaumont Press, 1919.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Illustrated with hand colored woodcuts by Anne Estelle Rice. First edition, limited issue of 200 numbered copies, this being one of 50 copies printed on cartridge paper. Publisher's green cloth and yellow patterned boards, lettered in gilt. About fine, corners very lightly bumped, former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, fresh interior. A beautiful copy. Roberts A12.b. An exceedingly rare publication, Bay was first published in several short print runs. This first edition is one of 200 copies, and only 50 copies, like this copy, are printed on cartridge paper with hand colored illustrations. According to the publisher, roughly 25 of the 50 cartridge paper copies were not sold due to an accident, lowering the total number of obtainable copies of Bay to 175 (63 of which are housed in institutional libraries' special collections) and making these copies the scarcest of the three variants. The remaining 150 copies are comprised of 120 copies printed on handmade paper (A12.a) and 30 printed on Japanese vellum and signed by the author and illustrator (A12.c). Bay is a collection of eighteen of Lawrence's poems, including "The Little Town at Evening," "After the Opera," "Bombardment," "Bread Upon the Waters," "Tommies in the Train," "War-Baby," and "Nostalgia," among others. As Roberts explains in his bibliography, these poems "comprise the greater part of Lawrence's literary reaction to the war." Notably, Bay was the first of Lawrence's books to be "issued in an expensive format from a private press," a practice he would continue with many of his subsequent works.
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.