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[Lawrence, D. H.] Nin Anais. D.H. LAWRENCE. An Unprofessional Study. Paris Edward W. Titus 1932, 1932.

Price: US$302.50 + shipping

Description: First edition, LIMITED being one of only 500 numbered copies for subscribers of a total printing of only 550. With two facsimile manuscript pages from LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER, Paris edition. 8vo, publisher's original black cloth, the upper cover and spine lettered in gilt. 146. A very good and handsome copy, the text essentially fine with just a bit of general toning and that being quite minor. The black cloth a bit lightened to charcoal on the spine panel as is common and with only very minor age evident. NIN'S FIRST BOOK, AND HER ONLY CRITICAL WORK. Nin wrote the book as a assessment of her literary hero; D. H. Lawrence. It was highly unusual at the time because very few women had ever publicly praised Lawrence; his works often being deemed near pornographic and in several cases banned for sexual content. More importunely though, the book was published at a time when readers were turning their backs on Lawrence and he was at risk of being essentially forgotten. The work was well received, and Nin would always site Lawrence as one of her foremost inspirations.

Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.

Nin, Anais. D. H. Lawrence - An Unprofessional Study. Edward W. Titus, Paris, 1932.

Price: US$318.39 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Original black cloth in clean, tidy condition with a good dust jacket which has been professionally strenghtened to the rear, some loss to the spine, number 219 from a limited edition of 550 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom

NIN (Anaïs). D.H. Lawrence An unprofessional Study - Avec envoi. Edward W. Titus, 1932.

Price: US$322.98 + shipping

Description: Etat correct. A noter la jaquette en mauvais état avec des coupures importantes. in8. 1932. Cartonné/Jaquette. 146 pages. Paris Edward W. Titus 1932. In-8 (203x136 mm) 146 pages. With two facsimile manuscript pages out of Lady Chatterley's Lover.Avec Envoi de l'Auteur. Ex. n° 513 for the press (One of fifty copies).Cartonnage en bon état général bien que sali. Intérieur propre avec papier non coupé en partie. Poids : 450 gr. Etat correct

Seller: Hairion Thibault, SAINT CHAMAS, France

Anais NIN. D. H. Lawrence, An Unprofessional Study With two facsimile manuscript pages out of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Edward W. Titus, Paris, 1932.

Price: US$335.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: The First Edition of Nin's first book, No. 358 in an edition limited to 550 copies; bound in woven black cloth with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, page edges uncut and uniopened, nearly FINE condition, corners of covers lightly bumped, small library bookplate stamped "WITHDRAWN" on front pastgedown. The dust jacket is complete but age-toned and lightly worn at the edges, front spine fold mostly separated

Seller: Stony Hill Books, Madison, WI, U.S.A.

Nin, Anais. D. H. Lawrence, An Unprofessional Study With two facsimile manuscript pages out of Lady Chatterley's Lover, Paris edition.. Edward W. Titus, Paris, 1932.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: Handsomely bound in woven black linen cloth stamped brightly in gilt on the front boards and on the spine. Clean and tight throughout with the exception of a few brown stains on the the bottom outside edges of the front paste-down and corresponding stains at the bottom of the front endpaper; pages unopened. This is #213 of 500 copies printed. In a complete greenish dust jacket printed in black and red. The front panel and the spine are darkened and appear brown. John Erskine is quoted on the front panel: "I learned a great deal from it. I am amazed at the scholarly and critical reaches--which theoretically no woman should possess." An attractive, collectible copy. In 1932, two years after D. H. Lawrence's death, a young woman wrote a book about him and presented it to a Paris publisher. She recorded the event in her diary: "It will not be published and out by tomorrow, which is what a writer would like when the book is hot out of the oven, when it is alive within oneself. He gave it to his assistant to revise." The woman was Anaïs Nin.Nin examined Lawrence's poetry, novels, essays, and travel writing. She analyzed and explained the more important philosophical concepts contained in his writings, particularly the themes of love, death, and religion, as well as his attention to primitivism and to women. But what Anaïs Nin brought to the explication of Lawrence's writing was an understanding of the fusion of imaginative, intuitive, and intellectual elements from which he drew his characters, themes, imagery and symbolism. Limited Edition #213 of 500 copies printed

Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.

Nin, Anais. D. H. Lawrence - An Unprofessional Study. Paris, 1932.

Price: US$493.83 + shipping

Description: (Paris: Edward W Titus at the Sign of the Black Manikin 1932). First Edition. Publisher's rough black canvas boards with gilt lettering to the front board and spine. Gilt a bit dulled otherwise a VG+ copy in like green dustwrapper browned to the spine and the edges of the front/back panels and the spine and with the merest slither of loss at the spine tips. A nice copy. First book. Photographs/scans available upon request.

Seller: James M Pickard, ABA, ILAB, PBFA., LEICESTER, United Kingdom

NIN, ANAIS. D.H.Lawrence: An Unprofessional Study. Edward W. Titus, Paris, 1932.

Price: US$600.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: Black cloth, gilt stamped. First edition, one of 550 numbered copies. Fine with pages uncut, in fine DJ with light fading on back and edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada

Nin, Anais. D.H. Lawrence; an Unprofessional Study with Two Facsimile Pages Out of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Edward W. Titus, Paris, 1932.

Price: US$901.25 + shipping

Description: Octavo. 146 pages. Number 231 of 500 copies with the rare #231 slip laid in at the limitation page. The major critics continue to quote the insights of Anais Nin whose understanding of Lawrence was not only a remarkable example of modernism but also courageous feminism which even today shows insights that continue to be discussed in the D.H. Lawrence Journal. John Erskine, who was an anti-feminist writer was quoted: "I am amazed at the scholarly and critical reaches--which theoretically no woman should possess." A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket.

Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA/ILAB, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.