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The White Peacock
by Lawrence, D.H
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- Condition
- Original blue cloth, first state of binding, with publisher's device on rear cover. Covers faded and somewhat rubbed, overall a
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About This Item
London: William Heinemann, 1911. First English Edition, first issue, with pp. 227-28, and 229-30 tipped in. 1 vols. 8vo. Original blue cloth, first state of binding, with publisher's device on rear cover. Covers faded and somewhat rubbed, overall a good, albeit worn copy. In folding cloth drop box. First English Edition, first issue, with pp. 227-28, and 229-30 tipped in. 1 vols. 8vo. Lawrence's First Book. Preceded by the American edition by one day.
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
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller Inventory #
- 12136
- Title
- The White Peacock
- Author
- Lawrence, D.H
- Format/binding
- 1 vols. 8vo
- Book condition
- Used - Original blue cloth, first state of binding, with publisher's device on rear cover. Covers faded and somewhat rubbed, overall a
- Quantity available
- 1
- Edition
- First English Edition, first issue, with pp. 227-28, and 229-30
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date published
- 1911
- Keywords
- British | D.H. Lawrence
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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