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D.H. Lawrence. REflections on the death of a porcupine and other essays. Centaur Press, USa, 1925.
Price: US$31.61 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 240 pages. cover & backstrip loose from block - waterstsai top ed ge back half -Publishers slip tipped in over publishers info tit le page-'sole agents for Great Britain and Ireland Simpkin Marsh all Hamilton & kent & Company Ltd. Stationer's Hall Court E C 4'- marbled boards -edition number 469/475 copies
Seller: Book Express (NZ), Wellington, New Zealand
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo (8" x 6"). (10), 240, (2)pp. Tan canvas lettered in brown over marbled boards. Publisher's woodcut device on title page. Edition limited to 925 numbered copies (this is #416). Corners rounded and title page with a small spot of soiling, but still a very good copy. Contents: The crown -- The novel -- Him with his tail in his mouth -- Blessed are the powerful -- Love was once a little boy -- Reflections on the death of a porcupine -- Aristocracy. (OCLC) This volume contains what Lawrence himself called "philosophicalish" essays written in the decade 1915-25. The topics range from politics to nature, from religion to education; the tone from lighthearted humor to mordant wit, to spiritual meditation. For all these contrasts, however, the essays share many of the underlying themes of the mature Lawrence: "Be thyself" could be the volume's motto. As far as possible, this edition restores what Lawrence wrote before typists, editors, and compositors made the extensive alterations that have been followed in all previous editions of the texts. (Cambridge University Press) This is the second book published by the Centaur Press.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.78 + shipping
Description: X, 240 pp. Original half cloth. First Edition. - Ex. No. 146 of 475 copies. - Front inner hinge broken. Some light foxing to the endpapers. With slip on title page: "Sole Agents for Great Britain and Ireland Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton". Gewicht (Gramm): 536
Seller: Müller & Gräff e.K., Stuttgart, Germany
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hardcover. Condition: VG+-NF. 8to. size. This copy is #64 of a limited 925. Rainbow-hued marbled paper over boards backed in tan linen. Side and bottom text edges untrimmed. 7 essays by Lawrence, all of which were written in New Mexico except the first. This VG+-NF book has a slight top-spine bump or spindle, and very slight corner wear on the boards, but otherwise the covers are in great shape. The topstain has a slight divot and is lightly faded toward the spine, the other edges are very lightly foxed, and there is a small dent to the pages of the front endpages. Otherwise the text is very bright and clean, and the spine is very tight. A fine copy.
Seller: Aesthete's Eye Books, West Jordan, UT, U.S.A.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Centaur Press, 1925 FIRST LIMITED EDITION No.125/475 pp.(10)+240 Quarter bound in original marble boards and pale cloth. Backstrip lettered in black. Top edge stained dark green. Front gutter a little pulled. Essay collection and second book published by The Centaur Press. Originally issued with slipcase, not present with this copy. 7 essays including The Crown; .Love was Once a Little Boy; and Aristocracy. A tidy, bright copy.
Seller: Draycott Books, Chipping Campden, GLOS, United Kingdom
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #101/450 Numbered copies, of a total edition of 925cc. 240pp. About Near Fine in tan canvas cloth covered marbled paper covered boards, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, newly restored endpapers, without jacket, lacking the publisher's slipcase. Points of boards rubbed. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Seven essays. Q04163
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$146.56 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Limited to 925 copies. At the facing page to p.240: "The second book of the Centaur Press. The edition is limited to four hundred and seventy-five copies for sale in England of which this is number 55." (10),240, (1) pp. Marbled paper boards with a natural cloth spine, black lettering to spine. Top edge blue (faded). With a slip pasted on the title page which noted that "Sole Agents for Great Britain and Ireland / Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, / Kent & Company, Limited / Stationers' Hall Court, E.C.4." Boards sl.rubbed at corners. Spine sunned. Edges foxing. E.ps.and pages somewhat foxing. Hinge of front e.p.sl.torn. Pencil notaions to text. 20.8x15.2cm. [f0850-170942]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
LAWRENCE, D.H.. Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine. Centaur Press, Philadelphia, 1925.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, preceding the English edition by nearly a decade. Linen and marbled-papercovered boards. Very near fine lacking the cardboard slipcase. One of 925 numbered copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 240 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed decorated paper boards. First edition; No. 359 of 475 copies for sale in England. Ink name; tiny ink note to pastedown; else a bright, near fine copy. With sales agent's printed slip tipped in at front.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Esherick, Wharton. First edition (unpublished in U.K. until 1934.) Number 133 of 925 copies. The Second Book of the Centaur Press. Porcupine vignette woodcut by Wharton Esherick. 240 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Roberts A32 Marbled paper covered boards backed with beige buckram. About fine. Bookplate of H. Oliver Rhea Porcupine vignette woodcut by Wharton Esherick. 240 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition (unpublished in U.K. until 1934.) Number 133 of 925 copies. The Second Book of the Centaur Press.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Esherick, Wharton. First edition (unpublished in U.K. until 1934.) Edition of 925 copies, this copy unnumbered, "Remaindered" in pencil. The Second Book of the Centaur Press. Porcupine vignette woodcut by Wharton Esherick. 240 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Roberts A32 Marbled paper covered boards backed with beige buckram. About fine Porcupine vignette woodcut by Wharton Esherick. 240 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition (unpublished in U.K. until 1934.) Edition of 925 copies, this copy unnumbered, "Remaindered" in pencil. The Second Book of the Centaur Press.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited numbered edition. This is copy no. 315 of an edition limited to 475 copies for sale in England. First UK edition with the original paper label tipped onto the title page stating 'Sole Agents for Great Britain and Ireland. Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Company, Limited. Stationers' Hall Court, E.C. 4.' (ii), 240 pp. Tan buckram spine over marbled boards. Lettering in black to spine. Book protected in a clear acetate wrapper. No ownership marks. Near Fine 8vo. Limited Edition
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$187.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hessian cloth backed, gloriously marbled decorated boards. First edition, US issue, which preceded the UK edition by nine years. An unnumbered copy of the 925 copies bearing the US imprint. Fine, partially unopened, bright copy, lacking the often derelict slipcase. ROBERTS A32.
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE D.H.. Reflections on The Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays.. 1925, 1925.
Price: US$198.51 + shipping
Description: Philadelphia: Centaur Press 1925. 8vo. Orig. hessian cloth-backed marbled boards. (242pp.). 1st edition limited to 475 numbered copies. Uncut. Fine.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Lawrence, D.H.. REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF A PORCUPINE. , 1925.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 1925 Lawrence, DH REFLECTIONS ON THE DEATH OF A PORCUPINE Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925 #423/925cc 240pp 8vo Oatmeal cloth backed/marbled paper-covered boards Faint tanning on spine, else fine bright unflawed, probably unread copy Cardboard slipcase present but in pieces.
Seller: Columbia Books, ABAA/ILAB, MWABA, Columbia, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 240pp.; HB quarter-bound multicolor marble w/white burlap&blk.-blue trim; slight rub w/spine darkened; lt.stain,foredge; clean,tight pgs. Slipcase blk.w/gray&blk.label; no top/bttm.; rubbed w/wear on edges&corners; inside tape repair on hinges. 7 essays including title + The Crown, The Novel, etc. "The Second Book of the Centaur Press The Edition is Limited to Nine Hundred and Twenty-Five Copies for Sale of Which this is Number 579"
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: ; 240 pp.; ; Fine; No. 108 of 475 specified for distribution in England. The slip case is defective, being a pile of cardboard. . Roberts [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$204.94 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: When the CROWN was written in 1915, The war was already a year old it was first printed in a tiny monthly paper called the Signature . 8vo. Pp, [10], 240 . Ltd edition 310/475 Original marbled paper with natural cloth spine with title in black lettering , front first few pages are foxed . Half title page has vignette of porcupine on tail, fore edge and tail edge are foxed. Slip Case is original and has been repaired , but otherwise apart from a little shelf wear good. A first edition of a hard to find copy complete with slip case.
Seller: Highstreet Books ABA ILAB, Honiton, United Kingdom
Price: US$213.77 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original marbled boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 5 preliminary leaves, 240, [1] pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; Essays 20th century. Fiction Authorship. Monarchy Great Britain. English literature. English literature 20th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$224.15 + shipping
Description: First edition. A collection of essays. Linen-backed marbled paper boards. Pages unopened.Number 509 of an edition of 925.Edges and endpapers lightly spotted. Fine in the card slipcase which is all there but in pieces.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$230.56 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, [x], 240pp, orig. linen backed bright marbled boards, lettered in black. A VG+ tightly bound bright copy with only a few minor marks. Limited edition of 925 copies, this being a numbered copy of 475 copies for sale in England. David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays contains what Lawrence himself called the 'philosophicalish' essays written in the decade 1915-1925.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$244.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original marbled boards. Spine bands and panel edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 5 preliminary leaves, 240, [1] pages ; 21 cm. Subjects; Essays 20th century. Fiction Authorship. Monarchy Great Britain. English literature. English literature 20th century. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D.H.. Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays.. , 1925.
Price: US$256.17 + shipping
Description: 240pp The Centaur Press, Philadelphia, 1925. *No. 231 of edition limited to 475 copies for sale in England. With Simpkin, Marshall,Hamilton, Kent & Co. Ltd., London sticker Outmeal buckram spine with marbled boards & box with label. Spine sl. dust-marked & box sl. worn, else VG.
Seller: Anthony C. Hall, Bookseller ABA ILAB, Isleworth, MIDDX, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine. The Centaur Press, Philadelphia, 1925.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Philadelphia: The Centaur Press, 1925. First Edition. One of 925 copies; 475 were issued for England, 450 for the U.S. This copy un-numbered on the limitation page. Octavo, 240 pp. Cloth-backed marbled boards (buff buckram spine). Lacks slipcase. Wear at corners (see scan), otherwise near fine. Quite remarkably bright and clean. Binding is tight. Very Good Plus. Uncut pages, and many leaves unopened; probably never read. Named for but one of the great writer's included pieces, this remarkable true first edition (the British first edition appeared nine years later, in 1934) also includes The Crown, The Novel, Him With His Tail in His Mouth, .Love Was Once a Little Boy, and Aristocracy . A Lawrence first edition printed in a very small run. L-36n
Seller: Singularity Rare & Fine, Baldwinsville, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine.. The Centaur Press, Philadelphia, 1925.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited Edition. #364/475 copies for the British market, numbered on the Colophon, with British agents tipped-on tag on title page. 240pp. A beautiful unworn copy in fine-grain canvas cloth over bright multi-colored paper covered boards, top edge stained dark-steel blue, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. Lacking the slipcase. Q15541
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Black lettered quarter oyster buckram over marbled paper boards. Top stain blue. Housed in black cardboard slipcase with paper title label. Edition limited to 475 copies of which this is #190. Second book of the Press. Near fine copy in vg slipcase. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Contact Editions, ABAC, ILAB, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$352.24 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An exceptionally bright copy of the limited edition first edition of D. H. Lawrence's collection of philosophical essays. The first edition of this work.Number 96 of the limited 475 copies by the Centaur Press sent to England for sale in 1925.This text contains seven essays by Lawrence, including the full text of his essay 'The Crown' which was originally written in 1915. Other essays include 'The Novel', 'Him With His Tail in His Mouth', 'Blessed Are The Powerful', 'Love Was Once A Little Boy', 'Reflections on The Death of A Porcupine' and 'Aristocracy'.Lawrence termed these his 'philosophical essays'. In the publisher's original quarter cloth binding, with marbled paper covered boards. Back strip a touch age toned, with boards exceptionally bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$358.64 + shipping
Description: The first edition limited edition copy of this collection of essays by D.H.Lawrence. Direct from the library of the late Hugh Selbourne MD (1906-1973) a noted book collector and diarist. Number 394 of the limited 475 copies by the Centaur Press sent to England for sale in 1925. This is the true first edition of Lawrence's essays and the first official British printed and published edition was released in 1934. Bound with half title which has a small vignette of a porcupine to the bottom of the page. Title page has the Centaur Press, Philadelphia, publishing details with British publisher's or 'sole agents' information tipped in at title page. This text contains seven essays by Lawrence including the full text of his essay 'The Crown' which was originally written in 1915. Other essays include 'The Novel', 'Him With His Tail in His Mouth', 'Blessed Are The Powerful', 'Love Was Once A Little Boy', 'Reflections on The Death of A Porcupine' and 'Aristocracy'. D H Lawrence was a man of many talents. He was a novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His work represents an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation. In original quarter cloth binding and marbled paper boards. Externally, very smart with some small patches of age toning to spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are generally bright with the odd spot throughout. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$576.39 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Centaur Press, Philadelphia, 1925. First US Edition. Octavo. Marbled paper boards with a natural cloth backstrip. Titles to spine in black. Top edge stained blue, fore and bottom edges rough trimmed. Discreet former owner label to front pastedown. Backstrip a little worn, and some slight spottng to bottom edge of paper block, but otherwise a fine copy in the original black card slip case also in fine state with a tan paper label to spine titled in black. Limited to 925 copies, including 475 copies for sale in England through Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co (slip laid in) of which this is number 63 written in blue ink to book and slip case. The first English edition was published by Secker in 1934 in the New Adelphi Library series. Contains the full text of Lawrence's essay 'The Crown' written in 1915 and part-published that year in 'The Signature', the literary magazine started by Lawrence, Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield. The rest of the essays were probably written in New Mexico, including the title piece, while Lawrence was staying at the ranch of Mabel Dodge Luhan in the mountains above Taos. Roberts A32
Seller: Watersmead Books, Great Torrington, DEVON, United Kingdom