The Lost Girl; TOGETHER WITH an Manuscript Letter [Post Card] from D.H. Lawrence to Hubert Loss
by Lawrence, D. H. [Lawrence, David Herbert]
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- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
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About This Item
The book and its loosely-laid-in items are housed in a quarter-leather slipcase lettered (lightly decorated) and dated on the buttressed spine in gilt with the edges of the leather lined in gilt. It is the first issue of the book
* `The Queen` here is not a reference to royalty, but rather to a publication that Lawrence had hoped would serialize his work. Despite his desire and negotiations, that wish never came to fruition. The novel - which Lawrence started to write in 1913 before setting it aside for several years - eventually receiving the blessing of Secker, the London publisher responsible for producing Lawrence's works. Secker, in fact, purportedly told the author, 'I am quite sure of your future' upon reading it, although at the time it never became the popular success that he had hoped. Published in 1920, The Lost Girl was Lawrence's sixth novel and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction.
Queen magazine was a British society publication briefly established by Samuel Beeton in 1861. It became The Queen: The Ladies Newspaper and Court Chronicle before returning to The Queen.
Queen (originally The Queen) magazine was a British society publication briefly established by Samuel Beeton in 1861. It became The Queen: The Ladies Newspaper and Court Chronicle before returning to The Queen. In 1958, the magazine was sold to Jocelyn Stevens, who dropped the prefix "The" and used it as his vehicle to represent the younger side of the British Establishment, sometimes referred to as the "Chelsea Set" under the editorial direction of Beatrix Miller. In 1964, the magazine gave birth to Radio Caroline, the first daytime commercial pirate radio station serving London, England. Stevens sold Queen in 1968. From 1970, the new publication became known as Harper's & Queen after a merger of two publications: Queen and Harper's Bazaar UK, until the name Queen was dropped altogether from the masthead. It is now known as Harper's Bazaar.
[NOTE: The last page of Chapter III from which the phrase "in the bed" has been dropped is page 47. Page 48 hosts the first page of Chapter IV and the leaves hosting pages 47 and 48 are uncut at the leading edge, thus were printed at the same time and are not listed by either Roberts or Schwartz as having been tipped in. Yet, Schwartz states that the absence of the phrase is evidence of the first edition, second state. Another characteristic of the second state per Schwartz is that page 268 is tipped in. However, the leaves hosting pp 265 through 268 and those hosting pp/269 through 272 are unopened at their leading edge thus could not be tipped in as most of them are not listed as such. [As a further matter, none of the typography on page 242 is transposed and Roberts cites such transposed type as characteristic of the first edition, third state.] In consequence of the forgoing, we are unsure of what state of the first edition (first, second, third) this copy constitutes. Nevertheless, with the DUST JACKET AND POST CARD WRITTEN AND SIGNED BY LAWRENCE, THIS IS A RARE COPY.
Synopsis
The son of a miner, the prolific novelist, poet, and travel writer David Herbert Lawrence was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, in 1885. He attended Nottingham University and found employment as a schoolteacher. His first novel, The White Peacock , was published in 1911, the same year his beloved mother died and he quit teaching after contracting pneumonia. The next year Lawrence published Sons and Lovers and ran off to Germany with Frieda Weekley, his former tutor’s wife. His masterpieces The Rainbow and Women in Love were completed in quick succession, but the first was suppressed as indecent and the second was not published until 1920. Lawrence’s lyrical writings challenged convention, promoting a return to an ideal of nature where sex is seen as a sacrament. In 1928 Lawrence’s final novel, Lady Chatterley’s Lover , was banned in England and the United States for indecency. He died of tuberculosis in 1930 in Venice.
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- Bookseller
- Allington Antiquarian Books, LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3623
- Title
- The Lost Girl; TOGETHER WITH an Manuscript Letter [Post Card] from D.H. Lawrence to Hubert Loss
- Author
- Lawrence, D. H. [Lawrence, David Herbert]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Martin Secker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1920
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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