Item #7401 The Letters of D.H. Lawrence (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D.H. Lawrence) [Three Volumes]. D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton, George J. Zytaruk, Andrew Robertson.

The Letters of D.H. Lawrence (The Cambridge Edition of the Letters and Works of D.H. Lawrence) [Three Volumes]

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979.

8 3/4" X 6". Wear to unclipped dust jackets with light rubbing to covers and creasing to edges of all three volumes. 1" closed tear to edge of jacket of vol. I. Small closed puncture to cover of jacket of vol. II. Price stickers to jacket flaps of vols. I and III. Red cloth over boards with spines lettered in gilt. One corner of vol. III is turned in. Bulge to spine of vol. II. Previous owner's bookplate to front paste-down of all volumes. Pages are clean and unmarked. Bindings are sound.

ABOUT VOLUME I:
xxix, 579pp. 1979

Volume I of the Letters, edited by James T. Boulton, gives the first 580 letters in the series, covering the period September 1901 to May 1913. This is the time of Lawrence's youth in Eastwood, his first year out of England - in Italy with Frieda - to the publication of Sons and Lovers. There are letters to his early loves, Jessie Chambers, Louie Burrows and Helen Corke. He writes The White Peacock, The Trespasser, Sons and Lovers, the early stories and poems. He is welcomed into the literary world by editors such as Ford and Garnett; he meets Pound and other writers; he reads widely. His mother dies; he grows away from the younger women; he meets Frieda and elopes with her. Professor Boulton's discreet annotation conceals an enormous labour of patient detection. There are over thirty photographs of his friends and correspondents and a newly discovered portrait miniature of Lawrence.(Publisher)

ABOUT VOLUME II:
xxv, 691pp. 1981

Volume II of the Letters presents more than 700 letters, covering the period from June 1913 to October 1916, from the enthusiastic reception of Sons and Lovers to the completion of the first manuscript of Women in Love. Lawrence visits England in June 1913 and receives recognition as the author of Sons and Lovers. He returns to Italy in the autumn of 1913 to work on his new novel 'The Sisters', which subsequently becomes The Rainbow and Women in Love. Lawrence and Frieda return to England in June 1914 to be married and are caught there by the War. The letters vividly record his reaction to the War. The editors' introduction considers the initial widening scope of Lawrence's literary life with his later isolation in Cornwall. Over two hundred letters are previously unpublished and others are printed for the first time in their entirety.(Publisher)

ABOUT VOLUME III:
xxv, 762pp. 1984

This volume contains 942 letters written between October 1916 to June 1921. These letters show the frustration he experienced in finding a publisher for Women in Love in the wake of the Rainbow prosecution. Concurrently he began to write the essays which subsequently formed Studies in Classical American Literature, he also planned and wrote a school textbook, Movements in European History. There were important changes in his business affairs: the beginning of his association with the American publisher Thomas Seltzer and the change from the literary agent Pinker to Mountsier in New York and Curtis Brown in London. There is a particularly interesting correspondence with Compton Mackenzie, and the rupture of his old friendship with Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield. This period was a turning point, the beginning of his break with England and with Europe, before he made his journey to Ceylon and Australia en route for the USA.(Publisher). Good + / Good +. Item #7401
ISBN: 0521221471

Price: $150.00