Published January 1911
The / White Peacock / A Novel / By / D. H. Lawrence / (publishers’ device) / New York / Duffield & Company / 1911
Collation:—pp. viii + 496, consisting of blank leaf, pp. (i, ii); half-title (verso blank), pp. (iii, iv); title-page, as above (with Copyright, 1910, by / Duffield & Company / (a line) / The Trow Press, New York on verso), pp. (v, vi); table of Contents (verso blank), pp. (vii, viii); fly-leaf, with Part I on recto (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. 3-496. There are divisional fly-leaves, which mark the three parts of the book, at pp. (1, 2), (189, 190), (359, 360). Pp. (2), (188), (190), (358), (360) blank.
Crown 8vo, 7⅜ × 5; issued in light blue cloth; front cover ornamented and lettered in white and dark blue as follows: (a spread peacock, in white and dark blue) / (a line, in dark blue) / (a heavier broken line, in the same) / The White Peacock / D. H. Lawrence / (all lettering in white, and is with all ornamentation surrounded by one-line border in dark blue). Backbone lettered in white: The / White / Peacock / (a line) / Lawrence / Duffield Back cover blank. All edges cut. End-papers white.
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THE TRESPASSER
Published May 1912
The Trespasser / By / D. H. Lawrence / (publishers’ device) / London: Duckworth & Co. / Henrietta Street, Covent Garden / 1912
Collation:—pp. iv + 292, consisting of half-title (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with All rights reserved. in center of verso), pp. (iii, iv); text, pp. (1)-292. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. 292 as follows: Billing and Sons, Ltd., Printers, Guildford At end of volume there is 20-page, numbered but undated, catalogue of A Selection from / Duckworth & Co.’s / List of Publications
Crown 8vo, 7¼ × 4⅞; issued in dark blue cloth; front cover has, at top and bottom only, thick line border, with thin inner line—both in blind; and inside of gilt circle at center is lettered in gilt as follows: The / Trespasser / By the Author of / “The White / Peacock” Backbone ornamented and lettered across in gilt: (one thick, one thin line at top) / The / Trespasser / D. H. / Lawrence / Duckworth / (one thin, one thick line at bottom). Back cover has at center blind stamp of publishers’ device, but is otherwise blank. All edges cut. End-papers white.
Dealers in modern first editions call The Trespasser a “hard” book. It is scarce, but the dealers protest too much. Surely they are not correct in assuming, as they frequently do, that The Trespasser is as scarce as the Heinemann White Peacock, even if good copies of it are difficult to come by—as they certainly are.