Aaron's Rod.
by LAWRENCE, D. H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
New York: Thomas Seltzer,, 1922. Scarce inscribed copy, for a source of literary inspiration First edition, first printing, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "Bettina from D.H.L." Elizabeth Humes (1894-1970) was a European-based American trade commissioner whom Lawrence met in Capri, Italy, in 1920. Five years later, he fictionalized her and her mother as the principal characters of his novella St. Mawr, Lou Carrington and her mother Mrs Witt. Humes took as her fiancé Jan Juta, the South African-born painter who illustrated Lawrence's Sea and Sardinia (1921). The year following the publication of Aaron's Rod, Lawrence expressed his fondness for Humes in a letter to Gilbert Seldes: "If you go to Vienna, look up Elizabeth Humes, at the Office of the American Commercial Commission. I'm sure you'd like her. My wife & I like her very much" (Moore, Letters, II, p. 741). "In this and subsequent novels Lawrence's voice often, quite consciously, came from the sidelines; in them he would stage guerrilla attacks as well as full-frontal assaults; his writing would be goading, insistent, revelatory. In Aaron's Rod he went closer than ever before to writing directly about sexual experience" (ODNB). The American edition precedes the British by two months. This copy is in the first variant binding, lettered in black rather than gilt; there is no priority. Octavo. Original blue cloth, spine and front cover lettered in black, front cover ruled in blind. With supplied dust jacket. Spine creased and rubbed, dent to foot of rear cover with concomitant rumpling of cloth and leaves, contents lightly toned, scattered foxing; jacket faintly soiled, red colours still bright, nicks and shallow chips to extremities, short closed tear to foot of front spine fold, unclipped: a good copy in very good jacket. Roberts & Poplawski A21(a.1). Harry T. Moore, The Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence, 1962, & The Intelligent Heart: The Story of D. H. Lawrence, 1955.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 160305
- Title
- Aaron's Rod.
- Author
- LAWRENCE, D. H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- New York: Thomas Seltzer,
- Date Published
- 1922
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Peter Harrington
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About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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