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Lawrence, D.H.. Pansies. London: Martin Secker, 1929.
Price: US$10.16 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1929 hardcover with t.e.g. Half inch chip and one inch tear on top of spine, rubbing and fraying, corners bumped, marks and notes off an on throughout, marks on inside back cover, pages tanned, binding still OK.
Seller: Dave's Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H. (Poems by). PANSIES. Martin Secker, 1929.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Name of the previous owner. Publication of 154 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and minor scuffed marks. There are old tape marks on the endpapers. There is foxing on the early and last pages, little within the body of the book, the text remains clear. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
LAWRENCE, D.H.:. Pansies Poems.. First Edition, Martin Secker, 1929., 1929.
Price: US$15.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Half-title, 154pp. orig. blue cloth-backed boards spine gilt, worn, some marking, uncut,
Seller: R.G. Watkins Books and Prints, Ilminster, SOMER, United Kingdom
D.H. Lawrence. Pansies : Poems by D.H. Lawrence. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$18.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Attractively bound with blue cloth/gilt titles over the spine, zig-zag patterned paper covered boards. Some wear around edges, one or two small blemishes, but remaining neat. Hinge and text block firm neat inked inscription to the front end paper. Pages lightly tanned but smooth and clean. This is a nice copy.
Seller: David's Bookshop, Letchworth BA, Letchworth Garden City, HERTS, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 154pp.; HB blue&beige design w/blue&gilt spine; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; sunned; ink,ft.pastedwn.; some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. Poems by D.H. Lawrence
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
D. H. Lawrence. Pansies. Martin Secker Number Five John Street Adelphi, London, 1929.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 22.5 x 15 cm. Octavo. 154 pages. Blue cloth spine with teal and cream tessellation design to boards. First edition with no additional printings noted. Corners are bumped. Small pen notation inside front cover.
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$25.65 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth spine with gilt titles; top edge gilt; decorative boards; some general shelfwear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Caledonia Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom
D. H. Lawrence. Pansies Poems. Martin Secker, 1929.
Price: US$26.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: with rare dust jacket 1st ed 1929 patterned boards dust jacket has spine loss book very nice solid and tight Price on front of dust jacket is Half-A- Guinea Net
Seller: Arader Galleries of Philadelphia, PA, Philadelphia, PA, U.S.A.
D. H. Lawrence. Pansies. Poems From D. H. Lawrence. Martin Secker, London England, 1929.
Price: US$27.71 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Ex-library with ex-library markings. End papers removed. Wear and tear to boards. Corners bumped. These poems are called "Pansies" because they are rather "Pensees" than anything else. So I should wwish these "Pansies" to be taken as thoughts rather than anything else; casual thoughs that are true while they are true and irrelevant when the mood and circumstances changes. (D. H. Lawrence). 154 pp.(We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.)
Seller: The London Bookworm, East Sussex, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D. H.. PANSIES. Poems. Martin Secker (1929), London, UK, 1929.
Price: US$32.50 + shipping
Description: London, UK: Martin Secker. G/P. (1929). . Cloth/Boards. 8vo., 154pp., Rubbed & frayed, corners bumped; p.59-64 torn along edges from separating uncut pages, endpapers foxed; dj worn .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Pansies. Martin Secker Ltd, 1929.
Price: US$37.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The dust jacket shows signs of foxing and is edge worn, chipped and has some insect damage too. It will still look good in cellophane though. The boards are in a very good condition. The pages are slightly tanned, but the text is still crisp and legible. Internally clean and tightly bound. There are age related marks on the starting and ending pages. Complete with 154 pages. [B.K.]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.
Seller: Chapter 1, Johannesburg, GAU, South Africa
Lawrence, D.H.. Pansies.1929. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Impression. Light spotting to pre-lim edges, else a Fine copy in dark blue cloth over decorated paper covered boards, lacking the dustwrapper. 154pp. Poems. Q10244
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Lawrence D.H.. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacket worn and chipped with moderate to heavy loss at corners. Light shelfwear to book - blue cloth over patterned boards. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 042918.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
D H Lawrence. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$41.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard cover with blue cloth spine and pale/blue decorative paper boards with some slight darkening of colour at edges and very minor wear at corners and spine ends. Clean interior with 154 untrimmed pages. Published in 1929 1st trade edition of poetry by Lawrence in very good condition.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
LAWRENCE, D. H.. Pansies. Martin Secker ((1929)), London, 1929.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Tall Octavo. Decorative cloth binding. Gilt top edge. Lawrence's ninth collection of poems. Good, couple small indents at front cover, marks by previous owner on front endpaper.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
D. H. Lawrence. Pansies: Poems by D. H. Lawrence. Martin Secker, London, England, 1929.
Price: US$46.18 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: This First Edition hardback was published by Martin Secker in London in 1929. There are no references to the print number. It was printed by the Riverside Press in Edinburgh. The book has been well looked after and the quality of the printing paper is very high, which is why the text pages are in 'Fine'. The cover of the book has an attractive design but shows general wear and both outside corners are snubbed, so it brings the overall condition to 'Near Fine'. There are no inked addenda in the book. The size of the book in inches is 8.8 x 5.9 and it weighs 0.32 kg. XXX in 20xx. *** The ABE Stock Image photograph is accurate for this copy. The condition of the book is xxx and that of the dust-jacket is xxx. The book is bound with xxx on stiff boards. The spine titles and front cover design are in gilt. The endpapers are xxx-coloured. The book has x numbered pages. There are xx colour illustrations and xx black and white (any printed within the text?). The size of the book in inches is x and it weighs x.00 kg. As with all our sales of books within the UK, we only ever charge a flat standard delivery cost of £3.35. Overseas buyers will be asked to agree to pay extra additional delivery costs as the book weighs over 1 kg.
Seller: Dartmouth Books, West Molesey, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D. H.. Pansies. Martin Secker, 1929.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: clean, solid copy, edge wear, boards slightly curved at outer corners, dj has chipping, top quarter of the spine is missing, also has smudging on front and back, toning on spine. BP/poetry
Seller: Bookplate, Chestertown, MD, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D.H.. Pansies. Poems.. , 1929.
Price: US$49.74 + shipping
Description: London: Martin Secker, (1929). 8vo. Orig. qtr. buckram with dec. boards. Spine gilt. T.e.g. other edges uncut. (156pp.). A handsome unopened copy.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
D.H. Lawrence. Pansies ( 1st/1st ~ UK ). Martin Secker, 1929.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition. First U.K. Edition. Wear and tear to the jacket. Foxing has occurred on the pages.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Cloth-backed decorative paper over boards, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g; 8vo; pp. 154. Spine tips and corners gently bumped; small, faint stain on spine. Bookseller's ticket near front hinge. A nice copy lacking jacket.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$53.79 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in gilt-blocked cloth over patterned batik boards. Includes newspaper clippings about D. H. Lawrence loosely inserted. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 154 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: "First Edition (Ordinary copies) (2600 copies). Subjects; Poems. Poetry collection. D. H. Lawrence ; poems. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Lawrence, D. H.. PANSIES. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Blue and yellow decorated paper over blue cloth, stamped in gilt; t.e.g.; 8vo. 154 pp. Preceded by a privately published edition. Lightly worn at corners, else about fine and very bright within, some pages unopened, in a worn and tape mended (verso) dust jacket (in removable protective archival cover).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Lawrence D.H.. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacket shows moderate edgwear with a few short tears but very little loss save for at spine ends. Generally an attractive jacket with some flaws. Mild wear to blue cloth at spine ends and paper at corners - 1/4 cloth over decorative boards. Size: Octavo (8vo). Text is clean and unmarked. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 036930.
Seller: Pazzo Books, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
D H Lawrence. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$66.70 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Slim hard cover with blue cloth spine and blue/cream decorative boards with no cover wear. Unclipped dust jacket, price half-a-guinea net, has roughed upper edge and some spotting but still in good to very good condition. Includes foreword by Lawrence dated March 1929 and mentioning some poems omitted at the instruction of the Home Office after the manuscript was seized by Scotland Yard, 153 pages. Published in 1929 the 1st edition volume is invert good to near fine condition with good dust jacket.
Seller: McGonigles', Cerne Abbas, United Kingdom
Price: US$68.74 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in gilt-blocked cloth over patterned batik boards. Includes newspaper clippings about D. H. Lawrence loosely inserted. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat edge-nicked and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 154 pages ; 23 cm. Notes: "First Edition (Ordinary copies) (2600 copies). Subjects; Poems. Poetry collection. D. H. Lawrence ; poems. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cloth-backed decorative paper over boards, gilt-stamped lettering on spine, t.e.g; 8vo; pp. 154. An exceptionally bright copy. DJ is present but split along spine, with losses to top and bottom and bottom of spine, resulting in about 50% being gone.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$105.18 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; original patterned boards, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright copy. LOOSELY INSERTED IS A NOTE INDICATING THAT THIS COPY CAME FROM THE LIBRARY OF ARNOLD BENNETT, WITH A SMALL INSCRIPTION IN HIS HAND ON FRONT FREE ENDPAPER. EDITION LIMITED TO 2600 COPIES. Published simultaneously with the signed limited edition. Roberts A47b.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. PANSIES - POEMS BY D.H. LAWRENCE. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$126.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 154 pages. Pages clean, good condition.Foredges lighlty yellowed. Endpapers lightly soiled. Top edges gilt. Previous owner's book plate on front paste down endpaper. Quarter bound blue cloth, gilt title on spine. Blue and yellow patterned boards. Head/tail of spine and corners lightly worn and bumped. VG
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Lawrence, D. H.. PANSIES. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$143.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 154 pages in very good, clean condition. Top edge gilt, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Light foxing on endpapers and fore-edge. Price of half-a-guinea printed on the ffep. Blue cloth over yellow/blue patterned boards. Gilt titles on the spine, which is lightly faded. Corners are frayed and worn, lower cover has two, thin, black marks across it. Binding is nice and tight. Book is in overall, very good condition. VG- Size: 5 1/2 x 9
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$169.31 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; original patterned boards, blue cloth back lettered in gilt, gilt top, uncut, a very good, bright copy in unclipped, mildly age-soiled dustwrapper. EDITION LIMITED TO 2600 COPIES. Published simultaneously with the signed limited edition. Roberts A47b.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. Pansies. Martin Secker; London; nc/nd (1929), 1929.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: ; 154 pp.; DJ; F-/VG-; The first trade edition, after a 250 copy signed format. The book is largely unopened, thus nearly fine. Laid in is a two leaf pamphlet " "he is the strong novelist writing to-day" ", which has two quotes from Arnold Bennett and a list of Lawrence's other books then available. The jacket is missing roughly 60% of the spine, a 2x3" piece from the upper spine corner of the front panel and a few 1/2 " chips from the edge. . Roberts=A47.b. [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D[avid] H[erbert].. Pansies Poems.. London: Martin Secker, [1929]., 1929.
Price: US$222.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 154, [1 leaf]. blue cloth-backed patterned bds., t.e.g. (slight wear to corners, former owners bookplate). First Edition, Trade Issue.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Lawrence, D. H.. Pansies. Poems. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$224.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade issue. 8vo. Pp. 154. Blue cloth spine, gilt lettered, over blue and yellow patterned paper boards. Top edge gilt. Bottom corners and spine ends lightly bumped, clean throughout, binding tight and square. Dust jacket with chipped corners, spine ends with larger chips, and spine darkened and scuffed, mended with clear tape at the spine ends and a few verso edges.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
LAWRENCE, D.H.. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Patterned boards with blue cloth spine and gilt lettering, pages lightly foxed; a lovely uncut copy.
Seller: B & L Rootenberg Rare Books, ABAA, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D.H.. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, trade issue (issued simultaneously with a signed and limited issue). Fine in fine dust jacket with a couple of tiny nicks. One of 2600 copies. After the publication of *Lady Chatterley's Lover* postal authorities seized the original typescript for *Pansies.* Lawrence had to prepare this expurgated issue that Martin Secker published in July, 1929, preceding all others.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. PANSIES [Signed Edition Limited to 250 copies]. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$974.83 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "Two Hundred and fifty special copies have been prepared, bearing the author's signature, of which this is No. 72." 154 pages. Original dust jacket very good, expertly repaired using Japanese archival paper, a little light rubbing to edges, now attractively presented in a loose-fitting clear archival sleeve. Hard-back binding, vellum spine clean with gilt lettering, vibrant patterned paper covered boards near fine. Contents clean and tight, D.H. Lawrence's signature in blue ink to the limitation page, top edge gilt and fore-edges rough cut. A near fine copy with a good, carefully repaired dust jacket. Size: 8vo
Seller: LOE BOOKS, Launceston, United Kingdom
D. H. Lawrence. PANSIES (Signed Ltd. Edition). Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies. A fine hardcover copy in a very good jacket/brodart covered. No bumped corners to decorated cloth boards and vellum spine with gold lettering. Top edge gold gilt. Copy is very tight. No ownership signatures. No. copy by Lawrence #56/250. Jacket has aged with some spotting/foxing due to the chemical impurities in the paper, which is common to most copies. Small chips and edgewear to bottom of jackets spine and small piece missing to top of jackets spine. Spine of jacket has toned. Small closed tear to top edge of rear flap and a couple of short tears to top and bottom edges of jackets spine. A very decent copy.
Seller: Booklegger's Fine Books ABAA, Park Ridge, IL, U.S.A.
D H Lawrence. Pansies. Martin Secker, 1929.
Price: US$1154.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition 1929 signed copy of Pansies by D H Lawrence. One of 250 deluxe copies signed and hand-numbered by D.H. Lawrence. This being number 42. Hardback book with colorful printed decorative paper cover boards with a gilt-stamped vellum spine in very good/fine condition with no real marks/issues to comment on. The dust jacket is sadly quite battered with several tears but still a very nice copy of this book.
Seller: Berry Books, Sudbury, SUFFO, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. Pansies. Martin Secker, London, 1929.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition no. 218 of 250 copies of the deluxe issue. 1 vols. 8vo. Vellum spine and patterned boards. Fine in slightly chipped dust jacket First edition no. 218 of 250 copies of the deluxe issue.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D.H. Pansies. London Martin Secker 1929, 1929.
Price: US$1350.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. One of 250 deluxe copies signed and hand-numbered by D.H. Lawrence. The book, itself, is a charming affair with colorful printed decorative paper cover boards with a gilt-stamped vellum spine. A very nice copy in a very good slightly dust soiled dust jacket with a few mends by an expert paper conservationist.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.