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Apocalypse
by Lawrence, D. H
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
Florence: G. Orioli, 1931. Hardcover. very good. limited edition, printed on Binda paper, 590/750 printed, out of which 700 were for sale. 308pp. Octavo. Red paper covered boards with black decoration on front cover. Black and gilt title pastedown on spine. Some light fading and discolouration to boards and stronger fading to spine. Light wear to edges of spine and corners. Slight discolouration to endpapers. Outer edges of text block untrimmed. B/W frontis. In dust wrapper worn and faded at edges. Missing about half of front of jacket with some chipping to spine and back. A lovely copy. very good Roberts A 57a. Born of Lawrence's interest in the Book of Revelation which stemmed from his writing of the introduction to Carter's 'The Dragon of Revelation' in 1931. The tone of this book reveals a lust for life and Lawrence's spiritual beliefs. 1931
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 132049
- Title
- Apocalypse
- Author
- Lawrence, D. H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- G. Orioli
- Place of Publication
- Florence
- Date Published
- 1931
- Keywords
- D.H. Lawrence|English Author|English Lit|English Literature|Limited Edition
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- G
- Good describes the average used and worn book that has all pages or leaves present. Any defects must be noted. (as defined by AB...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
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