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Lawrence, D.H. - The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. The Cambridge Edition, Volumes 1-7. (7 Volumes).

Title: The Letters of D.H. Lawrence. The Cambridge Edition, Volumes 1-7. (7 Volumes).
Description: London, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 1979-1993. 1979-1993. - Octavo, 8-7/8 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Seven volumes bound in red cloth titled in gilt on the spines, in color illustrated black dust wrappers. The top edges of volumes 2 through 6 are stained in red and that of volume 7 is white with a red line. The numbers printed on the dust wrappers' spines of volumes 3 through 7 are printed in red while those on the first 2 volumes are in white. There are but minor flaws to the dust jacket's with a tiny tear to the head of the second volume's jacket's spine. The dye along the top edges of a few volumes is slightly faded. The pagination is as follows: volume 1: Color frontispiece, pages [i]-xxix, [9], 1-579, [5], and 16 pages of black & white plates; volume 2: pages [i]-xxv, [3], 1-691, [1], and 16 pages of black & white plates; volume 3: pages [i]-xxv, [3], 1-762, [8], and 16 pages of black & white plates; volume 4: pages [i]-xxiv, [4], 1-627, [1], and 16pages of black & white plates; volume 5: pages [i]-xxxiii, [3], 1-686, [14], and 24 pages of black & white plates; volume 6: pages [i]-xxxii, [2], 1-645, [1], and 16 pages of black & white plates; and volume 7: pages [i]-xxvi, [4], 1-683, [7], and 16 pages of black & white plates. Altogether the set is illustrated with a color frontispiece portrait, a double-page Lawrence Genealogy, 26 pages of maps and 119 black and white plates. Very good. First editions. Volume 1 (1979): September 1901-May 1913, edited by James T. Boulton. Volume 2 (1981): June 1913-October 1916, edited by George J. Zytaruk and James T. Boulton. Volume 3 (1984): October 1916-June 1921, edited by James T. Boulton and Andrew Robertson. Volume 4 (1987): June 1921-March 1924, edited by Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, and Elizabeth Mansfield. Volume 5 (1989): March 1924-March 1927, edited by James T. Boluton and Lindeth Vasey. Volume 6 (1991): March 1927-November 1928, edited by James T. Boulton and Margaret H. Boulton, with Gerald M. Lacy. Volume 7 (1993): November 1928-February 1930, edited by Keith Sagar and James T. Boulton. (An 8th volume, not here present, was published in 2001 containing previously uncollected letters and a general index.). Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; LETTERS; BIOGRAPHICAL; D.H. LAWRENCE; LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE; FIRST EDITION; 1ST EDITION; SET; TWENTIETH CENTURY; 20TH CENTURY; THE LETTERS OF D.H. LAWRENCE. THE CAMBRIDGE EDITION; ILLUSTRATED; ILLUSTRATIONS; CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Price: US$ 375.00 Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd.
- Book number: 97559

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