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Lawrence, D H.
Amores Poems.
Publisher: Duckworth and Company London;
Date of Publication: 1916
Stock Code: 9647
FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. vii, [1], 137, [1], 16. With 16 pages of publishers’ adverts at end. Bound in the original midnight blue publishers’ cloth with blind publishers’ device to lower board, and gilt titles to spine. Lightly rubbed to joints and spine-tips, with clean cloth and bright gilt. Some toning to endpapers and light scattered foxing throughout. A tight, secure, square, clean copy free from annotations or inscriptions. A Very Good copy. First edition of D. H. Lawrence’s second collection of poetry, published in an edition of 900 copies, around half of which were left unsold and remaindered. Opening with the overtly salacious “Tease” and including “Mystic Blue”, and “Snap-Dragon” many of the poems have embryonic themes addressed in Lawrence’s later more experimental poetry, with poet and critic Helen Sword noting that “despite their seeming sedateness of form, give voice to the demon of erotic violence lurking within so much of Lawrence’s most powerful writing.”
£120.00