Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First US edition and true first edition in hardcover. Preceeds the British edition. Ex-library copy. Rubbing to boards and edges, fraying to spine ends, call numbers on spine, stamps on the front endpaper and title page. Fair only.
Seller: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
Lawrence, D. H.. Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, The. Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1914.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 93 pages, part of The Modern Drama Series edited by Edwin Bjorkman. Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf, minor edge wear and fray, corner bumps, otherwise, clean and tight copy. Record # 853844
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1914.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: D. H. Lawrence's first play and 5th book, about a mining incident. One of The Modern Drama Series, edited by Edwin Bjorkman, who wrote the introduction. Printed by the Plimpton Press, no 11908 penciled in. 93 p. clean and unmarked, except for a discreet Discard stamp on title page and the page preceding Act I. Pages yellowed but bInding is tight. Library date due slip and pocket have been torn off endpapers, leaving some residue. Wine red cloth cover is frayed at edges of spine and corners. Gold lettering on spine is faded. Dewey call number painted at bottom of spine. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Back and Forth Books, Rohnert Park, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$36.00 + shipping
Description: A little rubbing to extremities. Previous owner's name in ink on free front endpaper. Front endpapers have a phantom shadow from previous laid in clippings. Overall very good. Small 8vo. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Red cloth covered boards blind stamped on front cover. Spine gold stamped. 93 pp. Roberts A5. One of 500 copies The Modern Drama Series edited by Edwin Björkman.
Seller: Frogtown Books, Inc. ABAA, Toledo, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (preceding the U.K. edition). Bookplate front pastedown, boards a bit toned, very good in good or better dust jacket with splits at the flap folds, toning on the spine, and modest overall wear. The jacket is a little shorter than the book, as issued.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Free endpapers embrowned; dustwrapper darkened at spine and edges, rather chipped and frayed, with some loss (a 30mm fragment) at head of spine. First UK edition, lacking half-title as usual (the US edition published by Mitchell Kennerley precedes), from the library of Victor Rothschild, third Baron Rothschild, a keen Lawrence collector, with his "R" shield book-label (some offsetting); 20pp. of publisher's advertisements at back. "D.H. Lawrence is one of the most significant of the new generation of writers just beginning to appear in England," declares Edwin Björkman in his introduction. "One of their chief marks is that they seem to step forward full-grown, without a history to account for their maturity. Another characteristic is that they frequently spring from social layers which in the past had to remain largely voiceless. And finally, they have all in their blood what their elders had to acquire painfully: that is, an evolutionary conception of life. Three years ago," he continues, "the author of 'The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd' was wholly unknown, having not yet published a single work. To-day he has to his credit three novels - 'The White Peacock,' 'The Trespasser' and 'Sons and Lovers' - a collection of verse entitled 'Love Poems,' and the play contained in this volume. All of these works, but in particular the play and the latest novel, prove their author a man gifted with a strikingly original vision, a keen sense of beauty, an equally keen sense of verbal values, and a sincerity which makes him see and tell the truth where even the most audacious used to falter in the past."
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: x, 93 pages. 12mo. First printing of the first edition of this play, that was Lawrence's fifth published book . Because this edition preceded the British edition, this is the true first edition. The book is clean and tight, with some rubbing of the color on edges of covers; a tiny rubbed spot on page 75 affects 2 letters in one word. The dustjacket, as usual, is 4mm shorter than the book and has a printed "$1.25 net" price label covering the original $1.00 price on the spine. The jacket is in very good condition: lightly toned and has a reading crease along the spine (N in Lawrence and L in Holroyd on spine have tiny scrape where crease hits); light soiling limited to the spine of the jacket. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Tennyson Williams Books and Fine Art, Williamsburg, VA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Mitchell Kennerley, New York, 1914.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first publication of Lawrence's first published play. This is one of 500 copies published by Kennerly. The English edition, which was issued on the same date, was bound from the American sheets and also issued in an edition of 500 copies. A very nice copy of an important Lawrence work. Lightly rubbed at the spine extremities and housed in a specially made slipcase (1/2 burgundy leather showing some rubbing). There are two bookplates of previous owners, one of which is John Quinn's.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.