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KANGAROO
by Lawrence, D.H
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- first
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About This Item
1923. London: Martin Secker, (1923). 6 pp undated ads. Original brown cloth lettered in gilt, with dust jacket.
First (English) Edition, which consisted of 3,000 copies. KANGAROO is Lawrence's Australian novel; at one time he expressed the desire to write a novel for each of the world's continents, and he might have accomplished this ambition had he been permitted a few more years of work...[Roberts] But he and Frieda moved on to Taos in September 1922, and had settled in by the time both this UK edition and Seltzer's US edition were published in September 1923 (priority uncertain, but both that month: the UK edition includes several paragraphs at the end that are absent from the US edition). This volume is in fine condition, with the gilt still bright; the dust jacket is near-fine, with one chip at the foot of its spine, and minor wear at other edges and folds. In our experience, this UK dust jacket is quite uncommon. Roberts A26. Housed in a handsome clamshell case of marbled paper-covered boards, cloth spine, and leather label.
First (English) Edition, which consisted of 3,000 copies. KANGAROO is Lawrence's Australian novel; at one time he expressed the desire to write a novel for each of the world's continents, and he might have accomplished this ambition had he been permitted a few more years of work...[Roberts] But he and Frieda moved on to Taos in September 1922, and had settled in by the time both this UK edition and Seltzer's US edition were published in September 1923 (priority uncertain, but both that month: the UK edition includes several paragraphs at the end that are absent from the US edition). This volume is in fine condition, with the gilt still bright; the dust jacket is near-fine, with one chip at the foot of its spine, and minor wear at other edges and folds. In our experience, this UK dust jacket is quite uncommon. Roberts A26. Housed in a handsome clamshell case of marbled paper-covered boards, cloth spine, and leather label.
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
- Sumner & Stillman
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15132
- Title
- KANGAROO
- Author
- Lawrence, D.H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1923
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction (Early 20th Century);
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Sumner & Stillman
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About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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