Kangaroo
by Lawrence, D.H
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Bloomington, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1960. Clean and tight and square. Sharp corners. Appears unread. Name on the first page. Bright red boards with black lettering on the spine. Fifth Printing, 1968. Introduction by Richard Aldington. The dust jacket has a little shelfwear with scuffing along the edges on the black background. The jacket is in new mylar.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Fiction.
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
- funyettabooks
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 049111
- Title
- Kangaroo
- Author
- Lawrence, D.H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1960
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Keywords
- Fiction
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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- Shelfwear
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