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KANGAROO
by Lawrence, D.H
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About This Item
1923. New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. Original blue-grey cloth lettered in gilt, with pictorial dust jacket.
First (American) Edition, published in the same month as Secker's UK edition, with priority uncertain. 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 US edition and Secker's UK edition were published in September 1923 (the UK edition includes several paragraphs at the end that are absent from this US edition). This volume is in fine condition, though as usual the cover gilt is not exactly bright; the color pictorial dust jacket, unclipped, is in very good-plus condition (minor wear at its extremities, though even at the head of the spine, print is not affected). In our experience, both the UK dust jacket and this US jacket are quite uncommon. See Roberts A26. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell case with leather label.
First (American) Edition, published in the same month as Secker's UK edition, with priority uncertain. 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 US edition and Secker's UK edition were published in September 1923 (the UK edition includes several paragraphs at the end that are absent from this US edition). This volume is in fine condition, though as usual the cover gilt is not exactly bright; the color pictorial dust jacket, unclipped, is in very good-plus condition (minor wear at its extremities, though even at the head of the spine, print is not affected). In our experience, both the UK dust jacket and this US jacket are quite uncommon. See Roberts A26. Housed in a blue cloth clamshell case with 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
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 15133
- 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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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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