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Lawrence, D. H.". Pansies (UK large-format PB - Privately Printed). DH Lawrence, 1929.
Price: US$46.20 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Privately printed. Undated and entirely without copyright information but the foreword mentions 1929. Pale red wrappers with Crest to rear. Good overall condition with small previous owner name and light tape ghosts to ffeps and inside covers from a fitted cover protector. DH Lawrence 1929.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D. H.. Pansies; Poems. Press of Theo. Gaus' Sons, Inc., Brooklyn, NY U.S.A., 1929.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This privately printed edition is numbered 238 from a printing of 1,000. There is a little corner bumping and light edge wear. Interior hinges are solid and there is no sign of shadowing or foxing. No ownership or other markings. A very nice quality copy.
Seller: Lowry's Books, Three Rivers, MI, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H. Pansies: poems by D. H. Lawrence. Privately Printed, 1929.
Price: US$93.68 + shipping
Description: Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 125 pages. Subjects; D. H. Lawrence. Poetry. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
D. H. Lawrence. Pansies. [S.n.], [S.l.], 1929.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [xii], 125 pp., half-title page printed in red, 8vo, pink textured card wrapper. A copy of the "definitive" (i.e., unexpurgated) edition, a variant with the fourteen poems not included in earlier printings of the first edition. No publication or printer data is included in this variant (perhaps to protect the publisher/printer, given the UK postal authorities' earlier seizures of two typescripts of this work), although Lawrence's introduction is dated 1929. P. R. Stephensen's name is given as the printer of an earlier definitive edition variant (500 copies privately printed for subscribers; see Roberts and Poplawski A47c), "but Lawrence . implied that Stephensen was not responsible for the book. Actually it was [Progressive Bookshop owner and publisher] Charles Lahr who arranged for the printing and saw it through the press" (Roberts and Poplawski, p. 172). And "later a so-called popular edition was printed from the same plates and issued in heavy pink covers for distribution on the Continent" (ibid.). The present copy is an example of this popular edition in heavy pink covers. Interestingly, the updated setting used for this variant that now includes the fourteen poems can perhaps be discerned from examining the typesetting of the table of contents, where the start of the titles of eleven of these fourteen are not quite aligned with that of the other titles. A very good copy overall; contents near fine, with a some very scattered small spots of foxing, wrapper edges a bit worn and chipped, with some darkening.
Seller: George Ong Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H. Pansies: poems by D. H. Lawrence. Privately Printed, 1929.
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: Good copy in original stiff card wrappers with some wear and tear as with age. Remains well-preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 125 pages. Subjects; D. H. Lawrence. Poetry. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
D.H.Lawrence. Pansies (poems). Press of Theo. Gaus Sons, 1929.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed limited edition hardback book (202 pages) privately printed at the Press of Theo. Gaus Sons in 1929 in a limited signed edition of 1,000 copies (#121) and signed by Frieda Lawrence. Boards are scuffed/worn at edge and tips with light foxing on endpapers. Bookseller since 1995 (ULG2-L-Bottom-Up)rareviewbooks
Seller: rareviewbooks, Kensington, MD, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Pansies Privately printed edition of 50 copies. P. R. Stephensen, London, 1929.
Price: US$288.73 + shipping
Description: This is an unbound, unnumbered and unsigned copy and therefore probably surplus to the print run limited to the 50 signed copies privately printed for subscribers only by P. R. Stephensen June, 1929. Sepia portrait frontispiece, decorative title in blue & brown, printed on japon paper. Unbound and in nine gatherings, 8vo, contained in near contemporary dark green card portfolio with label to front. "This little bunch of fragments is offered as a bunch of pensees, anglice pansies; a handful of thoughts. Or, if you will have the other derivation of pansy, from panser, to dress or soothe a wound; these are my tender administrations to the mental and emotional wounds we suffer from. Or you can have heartsease if you like, since the modern heart could certainly do with it." Contains the poems "The Noble Englishman" and "Don't Look at Me" banned in the Secker edition. There was also a privately printed, paper bound edition of 500 copies for subscribers only published by Stephensen later in 1929. Book in good condition. The japon paper is lightly toned and there is the occasional small mark or very light spotting. The portfolio containing the unbound pages is in fair condition, being rather worn.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$495.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: D.H. Lanrence Pansies June, 1929; This Edition is limited to 500 copies privately printed. Nummer348, signiert von dem britischen Schriftsteller D. H. Laurence (1885-1930), Sein bekanntestes Werk ist "Lady Chatterlys Liebhaber", aber auch mit andeneren Romanen, Theaterstücken und Reiseliteratur machte er sich einen Namen. Das Buch hat einen fleckigen Einband, Besitzvermerk, Bibliotheksstempel, hinterer Innendeckel beschädigt durch entfernte Bibliothekstasche. Trotz der Mängel ein befriedigender Gesamtzustand. signed by author Size: gr. 8 °
Seller: Antiquariat Luna, Lüneburg, Germany
LAWRENCE, D. H.. Pansies. P. R. Stephenson, London, 1929.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: cream wraps lettered in black and red. Wrapped in glassine cover and housed in worn white textured board slipcase.Edition limited to 500 copies signed and number by the author. This is copy #252. Privately printed for subscribers. Glassine with chips tothe extremities. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Lawrence, D. H.. Pansies. London: Privately printed, 1929.
Price: US$641.63 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original binding of cream paper with red and black lettering to spine and upper cover, black pictorial decoration to lower cover. Page edges untrimmed. Pictorial frontispiece. Limited edition of 500 copies of which this is numbered 319, signed by D. H. Lawrence to the limitation page. Top page edge slightly dusty, otherwise the book is in very good condition in very good condition covers. Original glassine dustjacket present and in very good condition, but creased to edges and with small loss to head and tail of spine. Slipcase present in good condition, but dust soiled to surfaces and rubbed with some loss to edges. 292
Seller: Jeremy's Books, Andover, HAMPS, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. PANSIES. Privately printed for subscribers by P. R. Stephensen, London, 1929.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: "Definitive Edition" (same year as first). "This edition is printed complete, following the original manuscript, according to my wish. [signed] D.H. Lawrence. Copy no. 338. [xiv], 125p. Portrait drawing as frontispiece. Title-page in blue with titles surrounded with brown key design. Bound by Whitman Bennett in purple morocco with marbled sides and endpapers, t.e.g. the spine with gilt titles and simple double rules in the panels with dotted rules on the bands. Original white stiff paper wrappers bound in. Roberts A47c. "Definitive Edition" (same year as first). "This edition is printed complete, following the original manuscript, according to my wish. [signed] D.H. Lawrence. Copy no. 338.
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Pansies. privately printed for subscribers, by P. R. Stephensen], [London, 1929.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Number 38 of 500 copies with 14 poems not published in the first edition by Secker published 5 months previously. Frontispiece Portrait. 126 pp. 1 vols. Crown 8vo. Roberts A47c Wrappers, spine darkened, some foxing to front covers. In chipped slipcase Frontispiece Portrait. 126 pp. 1 vols. Crown 8vo Number 38 of 500 copies with 14 poems not published in the first edition by Secker published 5 months previously.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. PANSIES [Signed]. Privately Printed, 1929.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 125 pages. In Very Good condition with Good plus glassine jacket. Bound in vellum with gilt lettering on spine. Housed in publisher's Good white slipcase. Slipcase has tearing to spine edges. Glassine jacket has head edge of spine chipped off. Text block has light foxing to some pages. Signed and numbered by Lawrence on copyright page. Shelved in Case 0. 1374661. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
D. H. Lawrence. Pansies (Signed by Frieda Lawrence). Brooklyn, NY: Theo. Gaus, 1929.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition, privately printed at the famed Gaus Press. This is the renowned author's 200-page volume of his poems, about which Lawrence writes in an enlightening Foreword, "I should like them (the poems) to be as fleeting as pansies, which wilt so soon, and are so fascinating with their varied faces, while they last." Fine in green boards, sans dust jacket, as issued. THIS IS ONE OF ONLY ONE THOUSAND COPIES SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY FRIEDA LAWRENCE. Scarce.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Pansies. London, 1929.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: Signed, Limited Edition; #377 of 500. Privately printed. By P. R. Stephensen. White heavy card covers, printed in red & black. Book Near Fine; wrapped in Good glassine wrapper. Just a trace of rubbing to corners. Erasure on top front corners on ffep. Glassine wrapper is quite age-toned, and has chips at corners and spine extremities, and several short tears at flap fold. ; POH7C; 125 pages; Signed by Author
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Pansies. Privately Printed by P.R. Stephensen, London, 1929.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [xiv], 125 pp. Stiff white wraps in original glassine jacket. First unexpurgated edition. Copy #447 of 500 copies hand-numbered and signed by D.H. Lawrence. Near Fine with fairly minor browning and foxing to glassine wraps (much less than most copies), rear end leaf rippled. Lacking original slipcase. An attractive copy. The first printing of Lawrence' final poetry book to include the 14 poems excised from the Secker first edition, which was suppressed by Scotland Yard.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Pansies June, 1929. Privately printed for Subscribers], [London, 1929.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: Deluxe issue of the definitive edition. "This edition is limited to 50 copies". 1 vols. 8vo. Unbound sheets, with Autograph Note. Set of the unbound sheets of the deluxe issue of the definitive edition of Pansies, printed on good paper. The edition published by Secker some months earlier omitted 14 poems. Lawrence arranged for the printing, which the colophon ascribes to P.R. Stephensen. This set is unsigned but an inserted A.N.s. on the verso of a scrap of an old letter: "Perhaps you have a copy of Pansies for this woman -- tell her I am ill -- true, alas! Anyhow she is a good address to know. Yours, D.H.L.". Roberts A47d Unbound sheets. About fine, in custom half morocco slipcase and chemise Deluxe issue of the definitive edition. "This edition is limited to 50 copies".
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.