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Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Lawrence's TORTOISE poems were first published as a group in New York in 1921, then included in the First English edition of BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS in 1923. This lovely Cheloniidae Press edition, edged in vellum over handmade paper-covered boards, is illustrated with eight wood engravings by Alan James Robinson. Number 71 of 200 copies SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page, it is in virtually mint condition. First Thus /?The Regular Edition?(Limited to 200 numbered copies). 8vo ( 64 pages, illustrated with 8 wood engravings by Alan James Robinson)
Seller: CHARTWELL BOOKSELLERS, NEW YORK, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Description: One of 200 numbered copies specially bound and signed by the artist, this one being copy no.98. Quarto (28.5cm); sandy brown paper-covered boards and vellum backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [64]pp; illus. A Fine copy. Fine press publication of Lawrence's 1921 collection of poems, written after the conclusion of World War I and the publication of The Rainbow and Women in Love. Masterfully illustrated with seven wood engravings of tortoises by Alan James Robinson, and an introduction by Jefferson Hunter.
Seller: Captain Ahab's Rare Books, ABAA, Stephenson, VA, U.S.A.
D.H. Lawrence. Tortoises.. Cheloniidae Press, Williamsburg., 1983.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Six poems by D. H. Lawrence, illustrated with wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, with an introduction by Jefferson Hunter. Unpagenated, etched portrait frontispiece and 7 wood engravings, quarto (4to), hardcover 1/4 vellum over bds. with an extra set of the 8 prints in a linen folder, loose as issued, in 1/4 vellum clam shell box, part of deluxe edition of 10 AP copies numbered "Artist Proof 10.", all prints signed by Robinson as well as the colophon. Very good condition, clean and solid. Inventory #21740-1, this item needs special handling in shipping. From colophon: "Tortoises was designed by Alan James Robinson and Arthur Larson. The tet was set by Winifred Bixler. Michael Bixler cast the Centaur and Lrrighi monotype. Additional hand composition was done by Arthur Larson at the Hampshire Typothetae, Three hundred copies were printed at the Typothetae by H. Patrick McGrath in the spring of 1983: two hundred on an obsolete, hotpressed Wookey Hole paper - T. Edmonds Creme laid; one hundred on Fabiano Perusia. All the books were hand-bound at the bindery of Gary Parrot. Ten copies were bound in full vellum, with the rest of the edition bound quarter-vellum. The introduction was written by Jefferson Hunter, Associate Proffessor of English at Smith College. the wood engravings were cut by Alan James Robinson at the Cheloniidae Press, Williamsburg, Massachusetts. . ."
Seller: The Old Print Shop, Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. TORTOISES. SIX POEMS BY D. H. LAWRENCE. Cheloniidae Press, Williamsburg, MA, 1983.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No. 63 of 90 copies signed by Alan Robinson (total edition of 300). Quarto. Unpaged. Illustrated with wood engravings by Alan James Robinson, portrait frontispiece and seven images of tortoises. Printed on Fabriano Perusia paper at the Hampshire Typothetae Press. Hand-bound at the Gray Parrot Press in quarter vellum over paper-covered boards with gilt spine title. This with an extra suite of the tortoise illustrations each signed in pencil by the artist and an original pencil drawing also signed by Robinson. The extra suite in a linen portfolio. All housed in vellum backed linen solander box. No. 63 of 90 copies signed by Alan Robinson (total edition of 300).
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.