Apocalypse
by Lawrence, D.H
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Perth, Western Australia, Australia
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About This Item
London: Martin Secker. 1932. 8vo, pp. xliv, 224, b/w frontis portrait with tissue guard, ink notes rear endpaper, small stain rear endpaper and remnants label, minor foxing prelims and endpapers, original blue buckram boards, spine sunned, edges lightly yellowed. First trade edition of Lawrence's last book, commentary on the 'Book of Revelation' and the nature of human civilisation. 1st trade ed. Buckram.
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
- Muir Books
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 83121
- Title
- Apocalypse
- Author
- Lawrence, D.H
- Illustrator
- Introduction by Richard Aldington
- Format/Binding
- Buckram
- Book Condition
- Used
- Edition
- 1st trade ed
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Martin Secker
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1932
- Keywords
- Authors, Essays, Literature, Metaphysics, Philosophy, Religion
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Muir Books
Biblio member since 2006
Perth, Western Australia
About Muir Books
MUIR BOOKS. Western Australia's largest and leading rare, secondhand, antiquarian and out of print bookshop, established in 1973 and managed by Rob & Janet Muir together with Tara Surry. We have over 50,000 books in stock. We are located in Perth (precinct of Northbridge), walking distance from the State Library, Art Gallery and Museum.
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- Buckram
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- Sunned
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- Spine
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