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D. H. Lawrence. The Ladybird. The Fox. The Captain's Doll. Martin Secker, 1923.
Price: US$12.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1st ed. 255 page HB. Brown cloth lacking a dust jacket. Good only.
Seller: Karl Eynon Books Ltd, tywyn, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. The Ladybird. the Fox: the Captain's Doll. Martin Secker, London, 1923.
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Ex university library copy with usual markings at rear endpapers. Some warping to boards, small stain on front, private bookplate on front pastedown. Good.
Seller: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
Price: US$19.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1923. Hardback. Original brown cloth; gilt lettered spine. No owner name or internal markings. Tight, bright and clean. Slight browning to end-papers. Binding a little faded. VERY GOOD. 255 pages. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D H. The Ladybird. The Fox. The Captain's Doll. Martin Secker, 1923.
Price: US$19.32 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition without jacket on brown cloth will send out 1 st class post - rare and collectable
Seller: The Guru Bookshop, Hereford, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D. H.. The Ladybird The Fox: The Captain's Doll. Martin Secker, London, 1923.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 255p. Original brown cloth. 19 cm. Modest cover soil. Endpapers browned. No jacket.
Seller: McBlain Books, ABAA, Hamden, CT, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. THE LADYBIRD, The Fox: The Captain's Doll.. Martin Secker: London., 1923.
Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Description: 7.75 x 5, cloth, 255 pp, a bit worn. FIRST EDITION.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D.H.. The Ladybird, The Fox, The Captain's Doll.. London, Martin Secker 1923., 1923.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: Second impression. Hardcover. Cloth. Edges and prelims browned, bookplate on front paste-down, some small repairs to rear endpaper, tears at head and tail of spine repaired, o/w very good in protective glassine wrapper for this copy.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Lawrence, D. H.. The Captain's Doll: Three Novelettes. Thomas Seltzer, 1923.
Price: US$31.50 + shipping
Description: New York. 1923. Thomas Seltzer. 1st Edition. Very Good. No Dustjacket. 323 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature England . FROM THE PUBLISHER - The Captain's Doll is a short story or novella by the English author D. H. Lawrence. It was written in 1921 and first published by Martin Secker in March 1923 in a volume with The Ladybird and The Fox. It was the basis of the 1983 TV film of the same name with Jeremy Irons as the Captain. The story chronicles the journey of fallen German aristocrat Countess Johanna 'Hannele' zu Rassentlow as she dates a Scottish officer of unusual philosophy. The relationship develops into one of D. H. Lawrence's idiosyncratic 'wicked triangles'. The intimate relationship between Captain Alexander Hepburn and Hannele is intruded upon when the captain's wife Evangeline travels to Germany suspicious of foul play. The plot unfolds with two parallel narratives; one in the symbolic domain, the other a traditional short story narrative about these protagonists. The concurrent symbolic tale that unfolds centers around the central image of The Captain's Dollafter which the story gains its title. This doll is a striking portrait of the Captain, with his slender legs and mesmerizing dark stare encapsulated in the silks and calico of a lifeless, inanimate object. This doll is an ongoing motif throughout the story as it acts as a metaphor for the dehumanizing effects of war on Hepburn - an English gentleman who had been part of the war machine and in the aftermath has come to believe that we are worth so very little. Another profound metaphor and image employed by Lawrence is the great 'glacier' described from afar to be cold, angry and a reflection of the captain's deep seated desire to subjugate Hannele and arguably conquer her physically, sexually and from the inside as she muses in free indirect speech narration. The couple ascend the mountain together, and the sheer enormity of this natural wonder prompts discussion of the smallness of a human being in comparison, bringing the captain to make megalomaniacal claims that he is indeed bigger than the mountain. He projects this onto the vast ice, its soft flesh like described with uncanny similarity to the earlier descriptions of Hannele swimming in the lake near her new home in Austria. Critics have debated the symbolic meaning of this ice monument, as the captain's determination to conquer it points to the obvious metaphorical domination of Hannele who watches from below as the crazed captain scrambles to the summit. Reaching the top, the captain is invigorated, yet Lawrence's narration becomes quite introspective of the transformation of the captain's worldview implicitly coupled with description of this barren vista of icea world of icethat is sufficient unto itself in its lifelessness. Akin to the gender commentary in The Fox on how the war had created a paradigm shift in the social roles within English society, this compelling narrative imparts to the reader a more intimate account of the death of a spirit and the dissemblance of class. The introduction of D. H. Lawrence, Three Novellas, an anthology that collates The Fox, The Captain's Doll, and The Ladybird, makes a comparison between the poetic works of Wilfred Owen and these stories as literary exploration of war that 'pity war'. This comes across in many of Lawrence's letters and implicitly in these texts, as each of the characters is in some way impacted by World War I. Lawrence must have been a keen observer of the social and personal ramifications of World War I, having written and published soon after the war, in 1923. inventory #5176
Seller: zenosbooks, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$32.21 + shipping
Description: hardback, 8vo, 255,(1)pp, edges browned and slight foxing, bookplate of F E Dinshaw and later owner's name on endpaper, original brown cloth gilt, slightly rubbed, board corners bumped, Good condition / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D. H.. Ladybird, The, The Fox, The Captain's Doll. Martin Secker, London, 1923.
Price: US$42.90 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, 255 pp. Covers a bit dull, light chipping at head of spine, discoloration to endpapers, foxing to page edges, endpapers and a few outer leaves.
Seller: Anthology Booksellers, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. The Ladybird [The Fox, The Captain's Doll]. Martin Secker, London, 1923.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo; original brown cloth. Chip to top of spine, else a sound copy.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.09 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. LONDON : 1923. Hardback. Original brown cloth; gilt lettered spine. Neat owner name dated 1923; no internal markings. Tight, bright and clean. Slight browning to end-papers. VERY GOOD INDEED. 255 pages. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. 8vo. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. The Ladybird The Fox The Captain's Doll. Martin Secker, London, 1923.
Price: US$48.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Martin Secker, (1923). First Edition. 255,[1]pp. Chocolate brown cloth, spine letters gilt. Cloth slightly soiled, edges slightly worn, very good plus, lacking dj. Three stories. 3,000 copies printed. Early owner's signature on front endpaper dated July 1938. Roberts A24a. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 256 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. The ladybird, the fox: the captain's doll. Martin Secker, London, 1923.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. 255, [1]; original brown cloth, gilt title on spine; touch of fading to spine, else fine.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. The Ladybird. Martin Secker, London, 1923.
Price: US$54.95 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition, Second Impression stated, with correct number line sequence, no writing, marks, underlining, or bookplates. No remainder marks. Spine is tight and crisp. Boards are flat and true and the corners are square. Dust jacket is not price-clipped. This collectible, " NEAR FINE" condition first edition/first printing copy is protected with a clear polyester archival dust cover. Scarce book. Beautiful collectible copy. GIFT QUALITY
Seller: rarefirsts, Charlotte Hall, MD, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. THE LADYBIRD. Martin Secker, London, 1923.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 255pg; VG-/-; spine caramel with gilt lettering; book missing dust jacket, bound in caramel brown boards; some light rubbing and bumping to the head and tail of the spine as well as the corners; glue bleed through on the ffep and the rfep; clean interior; shelved in HC Fiction. 1313011. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
D.H. Lawrence. THE LADYBIRD. Martin Secker, London, 1923.
Price: US$60.46 + shipping
Description: Original binding in brown cloth. Title in gold on spine. 255 pages. Free endpapers browned. Text pages bright clear and no foxing. 2 corners slightly bumped. Covers have some marks. Overall quite a nice tight straight 1st edition. Scan available.
Seller: Black Stump Books And Collectables, Skipton, VIC, Australia
Price: US$109.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo., First Edition, free endpapers mildly browned; brown cloth, gilt back, a remarkably bright, clean copy. With the armorial bookplate of Gerald Willoughby Andrews in front paste-down. Fabes p.37; Roberts, A24.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$248.60 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages; Physical description. : 255, [1]p. ; 19.5cm. Notes: Imprint: date from verso title-leaf. Contents: Ladybird / Lawrence, D. H. , David Herbert, 1885-1930 -- Fox / Lawrence, D. H. , David Herbert, 1885-1930 -- Captain's doll / Lawrence, D. H. , David Herbert, 1885-1930. Subject: Manners and customs - Fiction. English fiction - 20th century. Notes: 1st edition - 1st issue limited to 3000 copies. Referenced by: Roberts, W: A bibliography of D. H. Lawrence (2nd ed. ) A 24. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$280.00 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 255 pages; Physical description. : 255, [1]p. ; 19.5cm. Notes: Imprint: date from verso title-leaf. Contents: Ladybird / Lawrence, D. H. , David Herbert, 1885-1930 -- Fox / Lawrence, D. H. , David Herbert, 1885-1930 -- Captain's doll / Lawrence, D. H. , David Herbert, 1885-1930. Subject: Manners and customs - Fiction. English fiction - 20th century. Notes: 1st edition - 1st issue limited to 3000 copies. Referenced by: Roberts, W: A bibliography of D. H. Lawrence (2nd ed. ) A 24. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. THE LADYBIRD | The Fox : The Captain's Doll. , 1923.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Description: London: Martin Secker, (1923). Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket. First Edition of this collection of three novellas, published eight months before Seltzer's American edition that was titled THE CAPTAIN'S DOLL: Three Novelettes. All three involve relationships during (and affected by) the waning months of the Great War, then just five years earlier. "The years 1916 and 1917 were the years when the old spirit died for ever in England. But Lady Beveridge struggled on. She was being beaten. Society was beginning to jeer at this little worn bird of an out-of-date righteousness and aesthetic. [from the second page of "The Ladybird"]." This volume is in fine condition; the dust jacket, unclipped, is very good-plus (its spine browned as usual, minor wear at the spine ends; there is a faint vertical crease in the top half of the front panel, a feature we have seen before and thus perhaps a production flaw). This jacket is quite uncommon. Roberts A24a. Housed in a cloth clamshell case with leather spine.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.