Assorted Articles

Lawrence, D.H.

Published by Martin Secker, London, 1930

About this Item

Octavo, 215 pp. Original red cloth stamped in gilt with Lawrence facsimile signature to upper board and gilt titling to spine; top edge trimmed, other edges untrimmed; no dust jacket. Printer: The Botolph Printing Works, London. Condition: Very Good-. Cloth shows scattered splash and ring stains to front board, small mark to rear, and general rubbing; spine sunned with light wear at ends; corners lightly bumped. A slight lean to the spine. Old price in pencil to front pastedown; previous owner name in pencil at head of title page. Text block edges toned with a little dust soil; occasional faint foxing to prelims; mild waviness to some page edges. Binding sound and pages clean and unmarked. Posthumous collection of Lawrence's journalism with a brief prefatory note dated February 1930. Many pieces first appeared in newspapers including the Evening News and the Sunday Dispatch; others in periodicals such as Everyman and TP's Weekly. Contents include essays such as 'The Jeune Fille Wants to Know,' 'Give Her a Pattern,' 'Do Women Change?,' 'Red Trousers,' 'The State of Funk,' 'The Risen Lord,' 'Men Must Work and Women as Well,' 'Making Pictures,' 'Pictures on the Walls,' 'On Being a Man,' and 'On Human Destiny.' Roberts bibliography lists the UK edition as A53. Second printing issued the month after the first (Book was first published April 1930; this reprint is from May 1930).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Assorted Articles
• Publisher: Martin Secker, London
• Publication Date: 1930
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: Second Printing.
• Condition: Very Good-