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Women in Love
by Lawrence, D.H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good -/Good +
- Seller
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Albany, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: Modern Library, 1922. Modern Library Edition. Hardcover. Very Good -/Good +. In red cloth and black title panels with gilt which is a little dulled. Corners dinged and wear to spine ends especially top. Top page ends tinted black and some small stains to front page ends. Tape stains to free endpapers and half-title page with previous owner's name to ffep. Some small moisture stains to top of half-title and rear endpapers. A few notes/marks in pencil to inside of rfep and several pages of text. Unclipped jacket ($1.25) is in decent shape as was in plastic jacket protector that explains tape stains.Some wear at corners and spine ends which also have some small chips. Some scratches to bottom of front panel and a couple small tape stains each to flaps. With marvelous cover design by E.McKnight Kauffer.
Synopsis
D.H. Lawrence’s Women in Love, the sequel to The Rainbow (1915), was published in 1920. However, these novels, two of the author’s greatest, were initially conceived as a single work. Women in Love continues The Rainbow’s story of the Brangwen family, focusing namely on the lives and loves of sisters Ursula and Gudren. Urusula, a teacher, becomes romantically involved with Rupert Birkin, a school inspector with some unconventional ideas and attitudes; Gurdren, an artist, becomes involved with Gerald Crich, an industrialist and coal mine heir. Drawn together by a number of incidents, all four yearn for fulfillment, but struggle to avoid destruction in the process. Getting Women in Love published proved to be a challenge following The Rainbow’s obscenity trial, which resulted in the novel’s being unavailable in the UK for over a decade after. Unsurprisingly, Methuen & Co., publisher of The Rainbow, backed out of publishing Women in Love. But after three long years of delays and extensive revisions, Thomas Seltzer published Women in Love in New York City. Women in Love is ranked 49th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century; The Rainbow is ranked 48th.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Lost Paddle Books, IOBA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- LPB003126DL
- Title
- Women in Love
- Author
- Lawrence, D.H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good -
- Jacket Condition
- Good +
- Edition
- Modern Library Edition
- Publisher
- Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1922
- Bookseller catalogs
- British Literature;
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- Gilt
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- RFEP
- The portion of the endpaper which is left loose after binding. The first loose page upon opening a book from the rear. It may be...
- Flap(s)
- The portion of a book cover or cover jacket that folds into the book from front to back. The flap can contain biographical...
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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