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Lawrence, D. H.. Women in Love. Privately Printed, New York, 1920.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Limited Edition - #101 of 1250. Blue cloth. 536 pages. Front hinge cracked. Rear hinge just starting. Light rubbing at spine extremeties, and just a bit along spine edges. Corners bumped. 5/8" white scuff-mark in middle of spine (not affecting lettering). Slight twist near head of spine. Overall, would be VG to VG- but for front hinge. No dj.; lfh7b006
Seller: Crossroad Books, Eau Claire, WI, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D.H.. Women in love. Privately printed for subscribers only, New York, 1920.
Price: US$431.89 + shipping
Description: No.829 of 1250 copies. Bound in dark blue buckram, with gilt title on spine; pages untrimmed, with small stain on page fore-edge; hinges cracked and neatly repaired; light wear to board edges, spine joints & at head & foot of spine; gilt on spine rather dull Used - Good. Good hardback in blue cloth
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. Women In Love. Privately Printed For Subscribers Only, New York, 1920.
Price: US$555.00 + shipping
Description: 536 pages. 24.5 x 16 cm. Limited edition, copy 982 of 1250, printed by Seltzer. During World War I Lawrence had two projects, "The Rainbow" & "Women In Love." He rewrote and revised until it split into two major novels: The Rainbow, which was immediately suppressed in Britain as obscene; and Women in Love, which was not published until 1920. ROBERTS A15a. Orig. dark blue cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love. Privately Printed, New York, 1920.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited & numbered; Blue buckram & gold spine title; A just very good copy; 536 pages. Size: 6.25"x9.5"
Seller: White Raven Books, Ypsilanti, MI, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H. Women in Love.. Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, New York, 1920.
Price: US$1100.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the author's classic work which many consider his masterpiece, one of only 1250 examples. Octavo, original cloth, gilt titles to the spine. In near fine condition, name to the front pastedown. Uncommon in this condition. Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love is both a lucid account of English society before the First World War, and a brilliant evocation of the inexorable power of human desire. Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun's with industrialist Gerald Crich, and later with a sculptor, Loerke. Quintessentially modernist, Women in Love is one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Women in Love. Privately Printed for Subscribers, New York, 1920.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first printing. Copy 174 of a limited 1,250 copies. Bound in publisher's dark blue cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with light darkening to spine cloth, light rubbing at extremities and faint crease to top corner of front board. A book with notoriously fragile hinges, the front inner hinge on this copy is exposed, while the rear has remained intact.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love. New York: Published by Privately Printed for Subscribers, 1920.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Octavo, blue cloth lettered in gilt. First edition. One of 1250 numbered copies. Roberts A15. A gorgeous copy of a Lawrence masterpiece.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love. Thomas Selzer, New York, 1920.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first printing, of 1,250 copies. This was Lawrence's "most ambitious novel", and "his last comprehensive attempt to write for his country, as it examined and characterized contemporary anxiety and conflict" (ODNB). Lawrence spent more than three years seeking a publisher undaunted by the prosecution of Women in Love's similarly frank prequel, The Rainbow (1915). Eventually, the author had the book privately printed abroad by a small avant-garde publisher, a strategy he later used to great effect for Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). The first trade edition was published the following year in London by Martin Secker. Roberts & Poplowski A15a. Octavo. Original blue cloth, clean very good tight copy limited edition one of 1250 only Precedes by one year the London and first english edition by Thomas Secker. basis for the great film by Ken Russell circa 1970 starring Oliver Reed and Alan Bates. A true classic
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
LAWRENCE, D.H.. Women in Love. New York: Privately Printed for Subscriber's Only, 1920, 1920.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: A Lucid Account of English Society Before the First World War And a Brilliant Evocation of the Inexorable Power of Human Desire LAWRENCE, D.H. Women in Love. New York: Privately Printed for Subscriber's Only [by Thomas Seltzer], 1920. First edition Limited to 1250 numbered copies of which this is # 52. Large octavo (9 5/8 x 6 1/4 inches; 245 x 160 mm.). [4], [1]- 536, [4, blank] pp. Publisher's dark blue buckram, spine with four shallow raised bands, lettered in gilt in second compartment. Gilt on spine a little dull, slight stain on front paste-down and free endpaper from loosely inserted newspaper clippings regarding the 1970 film "The Virgin and the Gypsy". The New York edition preceded the London edition by seven months. Widely regarded as D. H. Lawrence's greatest novel, Women in Love is both a lucid account of English society before the First World War, and a brilliant evocation of the inexorable power of human desire. This was Lawrence's most ambitious novel, and his last comprehensive attempt to write for his country, as it examined and characterized contemporary anxiety and conflict. Women in Love continues where The Rainbow left off, with the third generation of Brangwens: Ursula Brangwen, now a teacher at Beldover, a mining town in the Midlands, and her sister Gudrun, who has returned from art school in London. The focus of the novel is primarily on their relationships, Ursula's with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector, and Gudrun's with industrialist Gerald Crich, and later with a sculptor, Loerke. Quintessentially modernist, Women in Love is one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative and unsettling works. After years of misunderstandings, accusations of duplicity, and hurried letters, Thomas Seltzer finally published the first edition of Women in Love in New York City, on 9 November 1920. This had come after three drawn out years of delays and revisions. This first limited edition (1,250 books) was available only to subscribers, due to the controversy caused by Lawrence's previous work, The Rainbow (1915). Originally, the two books were written as parts of a single novel, but the publisher had decided to publish them separately and in rapid succession. The first book's treatment of sexuality was frank for the mores of the time, and, after an obscenity trial, the book was banned in the UK for 11 years, although it was available in the US. The publisher then backed out of publishing the second book in the UK, so Women in Love first appeared in the US. Martin Secker published the first trade edition of Women in Love in London, on 10 June 1921. Lawrence spent more than three years seeking a publisher undaunted by the prosecution of Women in Love's similarly frank prequel, The Rainbow (1915). Eventually, the author had the book privately printed abroad by a small avant-garde publisher, Thomas Seltzer, a strategy he later used to great effect for Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). David Herbert Lawrence (11 September 1885- 2 March 1930) was an English novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. His modernist works reflect on modernity, social alienation and industrialization, while championing sexuality, vitality and instinct. Several of his novels, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow, Women in Love, and Lady Chatterley's Lover, were the subject of censorship trials for their radical portrayals of sexuality and use of explicit language. Roberts & Poplowski A15a.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1924.90 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, number 1,150 of 1,250 copies. This was Lawrence's "most ambitious novel", and "his last comprehensive attempt to write for his country, as it examined and characterized contemporary anxiety and conflict" (ODNB). Lawrence spent more than three years seeking a publisher undaunted by the prosecution of Women in Love's similarly frank prequel, The Rainbow (1915). Eventually, the author had the book privately printed abroad by a small avant-garde publisher, a strategy he later used to great effect for Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928). The first trade edition was published the following year in London by Martin Secker. Roberts & Poplowski A15a. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine with raised bands, gilt lettering on second compartments, twin gilt fillets at ends. Spine ends and corners slightly rubbed, front inner hinge discreetly repaired, rear inner hinge split, but firm, couple of spots of foxing to fore-edge, otherwise clean: a very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: "Privately Printed for Subscribers Only." The true First Edition LIMITED TO 1250 NUMBERED COPIES, this is copy 1171. Full original blue buckram with gilt titled spine with slightly raised bands. Most copies have either cracked or repaired hinges. This copy is original and untouched with no repair and only a 3/4 inch separation just starting at the top front hinge. Never read as the pages are still uncut. One of the great masterpieces of English literature. See photos.
Seller: RON RAMSWICK BOOKS, IOBA, CARLSBAD, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$15000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: [actually 1922]. First edition, British issue. One of 50 numbered copies signed by D. H. Lawrence. Martin Secker bought 50 sheets from the 1,250 of the first American edition, issuing them as a signed limited edition. This was the first signed limited edition, preceding the British first trade edition. Bound in publisher's brown cloth with titles stamped in gilt. Very Good with light soiling and bubbling to cloth. Spine cloth worn at ends and small area rubbed through at rear joint. Offsetting to endsheets, foxing to preliminary and terminal pages. Hinge at title page slightly exposed. A beautiful copy, housed in a custom quarter morocco chemise case.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.