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Lot 186

LAWRENCE (D.H.)
Women in Love, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 49 OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, LIMITED ENGLISH ISSUE, New York [but London], Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1920

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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LAWRENCE (D.H.)

Women in Love, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 49 OF 50 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, LIMITED ENGLISH ISSUE, publisher's brown cloth, gilt lettered on spine [Roberts A15b], large 8vo, New York [but London], Privately Printed for Subscribers Only, 1920

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The publisher Martin Secker purchased fifty sets of the sheets for the first American edition, issuing them in his distinctive brown cloth but without his name on the title.

Provenance: Arthur Denman, bookplate.

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