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Lawrence, D.H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, 1930.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, no dust jacket. Good condition. Toned tan paper over boards with orange illustration of a bird on the front cover. Dated 1930 on title page. No copyright page to be found. This is a limited edition printed on Binda hand-made paper. This is numbered 550 out of 810. 216 pages. Binding is worn. Pages still all firmly sewn together, but the spine is missing. Covers are heavily toned and discolored. Light bumping to the corners. Deckled edge pages. Pages gently toned throughout. A bit of foxing as well. A name written at the head of the front attached endpaper, no other marks or notes to be found. Overall good condition. Please email with questions or to see any photos.
Seller: Riverby Books, Fredericksburg, VA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: This is copy #71/810. Colophon reads "This work lacks the author's final revision, and has been printed from the manuscript exactly as it stands," 16 pages. Former owner's name inked on free front endpage. DJ has diagonal creases, a 1" piece lacking from spine foot, spine top chipped, paper split at front flap fold (now in mylar protector). ; 6 1/8 x 8 3/4 "
Seller: Chequamegon Books, Washburn, WI, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D. H.:. THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY. G Orioli Lungarno Series No 4, Florence:, 1930.
Price: US$102.47 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: FIRST EDITION, Numbered limited edition 658/810. Very good condition, cream boards, title in red on label across spine, spare label present, slight sunning to spine, hand made paper, untrimmed and largely uncut/opened, 216 pages. [QP]
Seller: Portman Rare Books, Tonbridge, United Kingdom
Lawrence,D.H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy. [Lungarno series No.4]. Florence: G.Orioli,, 1930.
Price: US$146.56 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Printed for G.Orioli by The Tipografia Giuntina Florence. First edition. Of this limited edition, printed on Binda hand-made paper, eight hundred and ten copies have been printed, of which eight hundred are for sale. This is No.350. 216,(1)pp. Original green d.w.with Lawrence phoenix on front cover. White paper covered boards, Lawrence phoenix printed in red on front board, white paper title label on spine with red lettering. Untrimmed edges. Spare title label at rear e.p. d.w.sunned, torn and chipped. Boards and spine sunned and worn at corners, sl.torn at the joints with spine and boards. Edges foxing and top edge darkened. E.ps.foxing and somewhat stained. Pages foxing. pp.112-113 stained. Some pencil notaions. 22x15.7cm. [f0848-170940]
Seller: Ogawa Tosho,Ltd. ABAJ, ILAB, Chiyoda-ku, TOKYO, Japan
Lawrence, D. H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paper-covered boards; dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 216, [1]. Number 561 from a limited edition of 810 copies (10 HC). Spine tips and corners gently bumped; ownership signature along top edge of FFEP. Dust jacket a little scuffed; lightly sunned along spine; small chips at extremities; some wrinkling along the edges. The publisher notes: "This work lacks the author's final revision, and has been printed from the manuscript exactly as it stands." Duplicate of paper spine label bound in at rear. With a laid-in publisher's ad for this edition.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Printed white boards, printed lettering-label. Spine very slightly darkened and rubbed at head, but a nice, unopened copy in a dustwrapper that is faded at spine and slightly nicked. Edition limited to 810 numbered copies, this copy from the library of Victor Rothschild, third Baron Rothschild, a keen Lawrence collector, with his "R" shield book-label. "This work lacks the author's final revision, and has been printed from the manuscript exactly as it stands."
Seller: James Fergusson Books & Manuscripts, London, United Kingdom
LAWRENCE, D.H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy [Lungarno series no. 4]. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$176.63 + shipping
Description: Overall well-preserved copy in tight binding; cream boards with orange phoenix decoration on front board; titles in orange type on label on spine; a little bumping at head of spine. No inscriptions. Limited edition number 216 of 81. Page edges rough-cut. Once green dust jacket now brown on spine and panel edges; worn at head and foot of spine and along top edge, with some short tears and nicks. Little chunks of loss at top corners; jacket covered with removable clear film. Further images available on request. Used - Good. Good hardback in Good dust jacket
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D. H.. The Virgin and The Gipsy. Florence: G. Orioli, 1930.
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo., cream paper boards with orange phoenix device and paper spine label printed in orange; covers soiled. Limited first edition, one of 810 numbered copies on Binda hand-made paper. A lovely copy. Roberts A54.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli 1930, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is copy no. 584 of an edition limited to 810 copies. Precedes the UK first edition. Lungarno Series No. 4. 216 pp. Publisher's cream-coloured boards with orange phoenix design to front board and paper title label to spine. Small bump to one corner. Boards clean. Internally clean. No ownership marks. Extra title label tipped in to rear endpaper. A nice copy. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
D.H. Lawrence. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hand-numbered limited first edition: one of 810. In original dust jacket and custom heavyweight beige-cloth clam-shell foldout box with gilt-lettered red morocco title label on spine. Large beige cloth book with reddish orange illustration on front cover and reddish orange lettering on paper title label on spine. Uncut page edges. 216 text pages. Pale olive-green dust jacket with "The Lungarno Series" list of books with prices on front flap. NEAR FINE book in VERY GOOD + dust jacket in FINE clam shell box. Book has a very slight bump at the top front corner tip, along with another slight bump at the front corner of the top spine end. Otherwise Fine, with a nearly immaculate flawless interior. No previous owner markings. Pages appear unread. Dust jacket has a sun-toned spine along with sun-toning to the edges, a tiny closed tear at the top edge of the front panel and a small closed tear at the bottom edge of the rear spine fold with a hint of an associated diagonal crease, a light touch of wear at the corner tips, and some light surface wear on the spine panel. Otherwise bright and clean with no stains or creases. Deluxe custom-made clam-shell box is flawless and practically as new.
Seller: Odysseus Books, Orange Park, FL, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE D.H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy.. 1930, 1930.
Price: US$198.51 + shipping
Description: Florence: G. Orioli 1930. 8vo. Original decorated paper on boards (paper on front hinge split but sound and holding corner points rubbed). Dustjacket (parted at spine with two pieces separate but intact some chipping). (220pp.). Title vignette. Uncut with slight browning. NOTE: Of this limited edition printed on Binda hand-made paper 810 copies have been printed of which 800 are for sale. This is No. 266. Very good copy. (Lungarno Series No. 4). Roberts A54.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
Lawrence, D.H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited to 810 copies, this being number 703. About Near Fine in a Good jacket, unclipped, unevenly toned throughout, lightly rubbed. Cream paper, toned at the spine and edges, with a pastedown label on the spine. Square and firmly bound, extra spine label pasted inside the rear board, clean internally. Lawrence's posthumously published novel about the lives of two girls returned home from finishing school.
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. The Virgin and the Gypsy. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, limited issue, no. 47 of 810 copies. 1 vols. 8vo (211 x 147 mm.). Robert A54 Original cream boards, phoenix printed in red on upper cover; with paper spine label. Boards toned, head of spine bumped with small loss at top. Very good First edition, limited issue, no. 47 of 810 copies.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence. D.H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Lungarno Series No. 4. This work lacks the author's final revision, and has been printed from the manuscript exactly as it stands. Lawrence died March 2, 1930. Fine in near fine dust jacket with offsetting to front edges and folds, spine sunned, tape-repaired wrinkle to top edge, in mylar cover Cream colored paper-covered boards stamped in orange, papepr label spine
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, Florence, Italy, 1930.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 216pp.; HB white w/orange-pic.cover; slight rub w/sun on edges; lt.wear; clean,tight pgs. w/many tops uncut. DJ green w/blk.-pic.cover; heavy rub&sun w/bk.detached@spine; wear on edges&corners; spine w/sun&soil. Lungarno Series No.4. "Of this limited edition, printed on Binda hand-made paper, eight hundred and ten copies have been printed, of which eight hundred are for sale. This is No. 694"
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Lawrence D. H.. The Virgin and the Gypsy. G Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacket spine ends chipped, light browning & soil, cloth spine foot soiled; scan available; #236/800 limited edition, no slipcase; ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 216 pages
Seller: T. A. Borden Books, Olney, MD, U.S.A.
D H Lawrence. The Virgin and the Gipsy From the Library of John Fowles. G Orioli, Italy, 1930.
Price: US$352.24 + shipping
Description: 1st Edition 1930. Limited edition of 810 copies. John Fowles bookplate to endpaper. Book is very good+ and bright. Boards lightly age toned. Light cracking to hinges bit holding firm. Contents good. The wrapper is very good with minuscule loss to spine tips. Spine age toned/lightened and surface rubbing. Edges rubbed and nicked. A few closed tears to edges. Quite a nice example. More images can be taken upon request. Ref13223
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D. H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy. Florence G. Orioli 1930, 1930.
Price: US$373.99 + shipping
Description: 216,(1) pp. Octavo. Original white pebbled cloth with red stamped decoration on front board. Red stamped paper label on spine. Boards lightly worn with slight bumping to corners and ends of spine. Foredge and bottom edge untrimmed. Printed on Binda hand made paper. Original printed dust wrapper which has slight wear on the spine and a touch of light professional restoration. Duplicate title label tipped onto rear paste down. No. 42/810 copies. Clean, tight text block. A superior copy. ROBERTS A54. David Herbert Richards Lawrence (11 September 1885-2 March 1930) was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent an extended reflection upon the dehumanizing effects of modernity and industrialization. In them, Lawrence confronts issues relating to emotional health and vitality, spontaneity, and instinct. Lungarno Series No. 4. This is the true first edition of the book and precedes the English edition by five months.
Seller: Aquila Books(Cameron Treleaven) ABAC, Calgary, AB, Canada
LAWRENCE (D. H.). The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, Florence, 1930.
Price: US$384.26 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Phoenix device on the title. First Edition. 8vo. [221 x 150 x 25 mm]. 216, [2] pp. Bound in the original white paper boards, with an orange phoenix on the front cover, white printed spine label, plain endleaves, uncut edges. (Label a little faded). No. 570 of 810 copies printed on Binda hand-made paper. It is a very good copy with a spare label tipped inside the rear cover. It is number 4 of the Lungarno Series printed for Orioli by The Tipografia Giuntina in Florence. The colophon states: "This work lacks the author's final revision, and has been printed from the manuscript exactly as it stands". There are in fact some differences between the holograph manuscript and the Orioli text. It is dedicated to Frieda and the opening sentance recalls her elopement with Lawrence in 1912.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
LAWRENCE, D.H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli, 1930.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Octavo. White boards printed in orange, paper spine label, uncut. Dust jacket (few small chips). Very good. 216 pages. No foxing. Number 599 of 810 numbered copies on Binda hand-made paper. From the library of noted "Gone With The Wind" Hollywood director George Cukor with his Paul Landacre bookplate on the front pastedown. Roberts A54.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY.. G. ORIOLI., FLORENCE, 1930.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited Edition. One of 810 numbered copies. Near fine in a Vg.+ dj. (Short mended tear at base of spine. Neatly mended crack & bump to bottom edge of board. A few small edge chips at corners of dj. & spine ends. Edge tears & trace of soiling at head of rear panel of dj.)
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. THE VIRGIN AND THE GIPSY. , 1930.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Description: Florence: G. Orioli, 1930. Original cream paper boards decorated in orange-red, with printed spine label, with dust jacket. First Edition (issued as No. 4 in the publisher's "Lungarno Series"), consisting of 810 numbered copies -- of which this is No. 743. Lawrence had actually written this back in late 1925, after he and Frieda had returned from Taos to Europe for the last time. This Florence edition came out in May 1930, two months after D.H. Lawrence died in France; Secker's UK edition and Knopf's US edition came out that October and November respectively. It is the tale of the virginal daughter of a rector in a secluded English village, who yearns for something beyond what she knows, when a swarthy gipsy happens along. -- the basis for the 1970 film starring Honor Blackman. This volume is in fine condition, without soil or wear, and includes the spare label tipped in at the back; "fine" also describes the jacket (". a green paper dust-jacket printed in black which is usually found to be faded to a brown colour" [Roberts]. Roberts A54. Housed in a handsome clamshell case of marbled boards, black leather spine, and red leather label.
Seller: Sumner & Stillman [ABAA], Yarmouth, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$935.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, one of 810 copies, limited and numbered, printed on Binda handmade paper for Orioli in Florence, Italy. With engraved frontispiece illustration and title-page illustrated with the Phoenix. 8vo, publisher's original white cloth, the upper cover with Phoenix rising in red, lettered in red on a label to the spine panel, with the printed and pictorially decorted dustjacket. 216, [1] pp. A very fine copy of the book, crisp and clean and near pristine, light mellowing and rubbing to the jacket extremities, still a very pleasing and unusually well preserved copy. TRUE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE. The Virgin and the Gipsy is a short novel written in 1926 and published posthumously in 1930. Today it is often entitled The Virgin and the Gypsy which can lead to confusion because first and early editions had the spelling "Gipsy". 'The story is a romance of blossoming spirit. The character of young Yvette contains the spirit of youthful unrest, curiosity, free-thinking and unprejudiced innocence. Yvette represents the desire for experience and freedom that Lawrence recognized as dominating the imaginations of the younger generation in England. The theme of aspiration for authentic experience is carried by her rebellious attitude and is further developed in her natural attraction to the gipsy man. Her day-to-day experience and the responses of her family are intended to contrast the inexperience and desires of youth with the limitations imposed by the strictures of conventional society. Social propriety for its own sake, a propriety that imposes inhibitions and crushes the possibilities of genuine free-thinking and loving experience, is one of the main enemies in Lawrence's work. Even Mrs. Fawcett is shocked at the notion Yvette could be attracted by the gipsy despite the fact that she herself is living with a younger man even before her divorce has come through. The gipsy represents male sexuality as well as individual freedom. The theme of virginity, and its almost unconscious aspiration for experience, is synonymous with the collective desires for the entire society before it has been perverted by an education made of prejudice and inhibitions. The virgin is inexperienced, and is therefore purely free to see the world as it is before others have had time to cause damage. Lawrence portrays Yvette as unrestrained in a positive sense: She visits the gipsies and the unmarried couple without thinking about any social consequences. She has an innate curiosity for an interesting and genuine life. The themes of her purity and innocence equate closely with a being absolutely untainted by prejudices or judgment. At home, the stifling environment created by her Aunt Cissie and the indolent, annoying Mater drive Yvette to search for uncharted social waters. She is not ashamed of her response to nature when she confesses her strong attraction to the gipsy during conversations with her sister Lucille as well as Mrs. Fawcett and Mr. Eastwood. Another theme is that society is influenced heavily by ignorance, jealousy and fear. Lawrence saw himself as a liberator for people who needed to enjoy and experience life without fear or shame.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D. H.. The Virgin and the Gypsy.. Florence: G. Orioli, 1930, 1930.
Price: US$2241.51 + shipping
Description: First edition, first impression. Number 35 of a limited edition of 810, printed on Binda hand-made paper. This edition was published in May 1930 and the first UK trade edition followed five months later. The first US edition was published in November 1930. Copies in this condition are rare. Reviewing the book in The Spectator in June 1930, Vita Sackville-West wrote, "it is full of the extraordinary, sensuous beauty which nobody but Lawrence could quite encompass". Roberts and Poplawski A54. Octavo. Original white boards, paper label with lettering in orange to spine, Lawrence's phoenix motif to front cover in orange, edges untrimmed, additional spine label at rear. With dust jacket and publisher's cardboard case. Housed in a custom grey cloth folding box. Head of spine slightly bumped, else a fine copy in a slightly faded but crisp dust jacket. Extremities of cardboard case slightly worn with short tear, else a near-fine example.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. The Virgin and the Gipsy. G. Orioli Florence, 1930.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing. A magnificent copy. This original First Issue dustjacket has NO chips or tears with slight wear to the panels. The book is in excellent condition. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp. The book appears unread. The pages are exceptionally clean with no writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a stunning copy seldom seen in this nice condition. Includes a custom clamshell slipcase for preservation.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.