Lawrence, D.H.

8vo (186 x 125mm.), FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS BROTHER ("to my brother | George | from the author") on front free endpaper, 16pp. publisher's catalogue at end, original blue cloth lettered in gilt on spine, dust-jacket, collector's chemise and blue morocco-backed folding box, some light spotting and browning, extremities bumped, dust-jacket worn with some loss to head and foot of spine

George Lawrence, presentation inscription; Robert Hesketh, bookplate

Roberts A9a

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A FINE FAMILY PRESENTATION COPY. George Arthur Lawrence (1876 - 1967), who seems to have had a troubled early life, was the eldest of the three Lawrence brothers (David Herbert was the youngest). The brothers were not close and George particularly disapproved of Lawrence's wife. As noted by Brenda Maddox he later "felt that Frieda had turned his brother into a pornographer".

This copy corresponds to the description of the first variant in Roberts' bibliography in that the top edge is trimmed but the others are untrimmed.