London: Alec Tiranti, 1954. Hardcover. First edition. Slim foolscap 8vo (179 x 124mm): 38pp and 56 full-page plates. Publisher's original pictorial paper-covered boards, dust jacket repeating cover design by William Scott (one of the nine artists), priced 7s / 6d. Neat ownership inscription and date on fly-leaf. Jacket's spine panel folds lightly..... more
Paris: The Obelisk Press, 1938. First Printing. Stiff Wrappers. True First Edition (with error in pagination at pp. 114-118), second issue (with erratum slip tipped onto title page), of Durrell's first significant novel and the first volume in the Villa Seurat Series, founded by Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence..... more
London: Turret Books, 1967. Limited Edition. Card Covers. First publication in the series Contemporary Poetry Set to Music, a six-line poem by Durrell, set to music for "high voice" by Southam. Limited to 100 numbered copies, signed by the poet and the composer, this being no. 25. Unpaginated: [8]pp, with..... more
New York: Covici-Friede, 1937. First Printing. Hardcover. First American Edition of Lawrence Durrell's uncommon second novel, set on an imaginary Greek island reminiscent of Corfu, to which Durrell and his young wife had relocated from England in 1935. Crown 8vo (203 x 129mm): 372pp. Publisher's beige cloth, spine and upper..... more
London: Boriswood, 1935. First Edition. Hardcover. First Impression of "this deservedly forgotten novel." (O'Brien) With a prefatory letter by T. E. Lawrence. Crown 8vo: (188 x 120): [8],11-287,[1]pp, with three publisher's promotions laid in. Original saffron linen, spine decorated and lettered in scarlet and French blue, top edge stained faded..... more
London: printed for Bernard Lintott, between the Temple-Gates in Fleet-Street [through 1718], 1717. Full Calf. Three volumes in one: Fifth Edition of the first, Second of the second, First of the third. 8vo: [2, the frontispiece and title page may be cancels],vi (dedication to Henry, Duke of Kent, from The..... more
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New York / London: Random House / Mandrake Press Ltd, 41 Museum Street, 1929 / 1930. Hardcover. Copy No. 241 of D. H. Lawrence's separately published introduction to the Paris popular edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, together with the first trade edition of the expanded introduction, published the following year..... more
![Item #BB1657 The Prussian Officer and Other Stories [First Issue]. D. H. LAWRENCE, David Herbert](https://fineeditionsltd.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/BB1657.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1551913294)
London: Duckworth, 1914. First Edition. Original Cloth. First or Second Issue (bibliographers disagree, but note MacDonald: "A [third or] later issue], in somewhat lighter blue cloth, lettered in black, must not be confused with either [first or second issues]). Crown 8vo: 310,[2],20(publisher's catalog)pp. Publisher's navy blue cloth, spine and upper..... more
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London: Duckworth, 1916. First Edition. Original Cloth. First Issue (with 16-page publisher's catalog at the end) of Lawrence's second collection of poems. Crown 8vo: viii,140,16pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed (variant 1. Roberts speculates that advance copies were not trimmed..... more
London: Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries, Leicester Square, February 5-21st, 1927. First Edition. Card Covers. A superb copy of the rare First Printing of this catalog of art works (later printings are noted at top of front wrapper) accompanying Lawrence's account of his legendary part in the Arab..... more
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London: Herbert Jenkins, 1929. Limited Edition. Morocco. Deluxe Facsimile Edition, limited to 125 copies, of "the first treatise devoted solely to the subject of pheasant rearing, covert shooting, and the management of woodlands for the special purpose of preserving game." (from the preface) Publisher's green morocco with gilt borders; top..... more