The Rainbow
by D H Lawrence
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/None
- Seller
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Hudson, Florida, United States
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About This Item
New York: Bw Huebsh(merged withThe Viking Press 1927), 1916. 1st american edition,unusal publisher with little info,mcmxvi on title page,but the copyright date is 1915,the binding signatures are tight,but weaking hinge after last text page(467 pages),light age toning to pages,inside front cover bookplate(nice one) of pervious owner,light pencil note(book store easily erased),covers are a brownish thick buckham,with black lettering,cover tiltle very readable,but spine is hard to see,there is wear to the spine ends-spine edges,with light edgewear to the corners.A decent copy of a scarce title,only 1st american I see listed.. 1st American Ed. Hard Cover. better than Good/None.
Synopsis
D.H. Lawrence’s The Rainbow follows three generations of the Brangwen family, with a particular focus on the sexual dynamics of, and relations between, the characters. Tom Brangwen, who is… let’s say “not the brightest,” succeeds to his father’s farm and falls in love with Lydia Lensky, a Polish widow; Anna, Lydia’s daughter (and Tom’s stepdaughter), marries Will, a distant relative of Tom’s; Anna and Will’s oldest daughter, Ursula, is a modern working woman. For Tom Brangwen’s generation sex happens, but between the lines. For Anna and Will, bodies are alluded to and desires described. By the time Ursula Brangwen is a young woman, sex is frequent and directly addressed. This depiction of sexual desire as a natural force — perhaps spiritual, even! — caused quite a stir upon The Rainbow’s publication. The novel was almost instantly removed from the shelves of bookstores across the UKcountry and was then prosecuted in an obscenity trial in a British Magistrates’ court in November 1915, just two months after its release. As a result, roughly half of the copies of the novel’s original print run of were seized and burnt. The Rainbow was unavailable in the UK for 11 years following. Lawrence initially conceived The Rainbow and what became its sequel, Women in Love, as a single novel titled The Sisters. However, after much revision, that manuscript became two of the author’s greatest novels. The Rainbow is ranked 48th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century; Women in Love is ranked 49th.
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- Bookseller
- Pulitzer Prize Books.com (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 526
- Title
- The Rainbow
- Author
- D H Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st American Ed
- Publisher
- Bw Huebsh
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1916
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- MCMXVI on Title Page-1916
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