Contents: The Crucifix across the Mountains; On the Lago di Garda—I. The Spinner and the Monks, II. The Lemon Gardens, III. The Theatre, IV. San Gaudenzio, V. The Dance, VI. Il Duro, VII. John; Italians in Exile; The Return Journey.
Crown 8vo, 7⁵⁄₁₆ × 4¾; issued in dark blue cloth; front cover has two-line border in blind, and is lettered and ornamented in gilt as follows: Twilight in Italy / (three dots) D. H. Lawrence (three dots). Backbone ornamented and lettered across in gilt: (two lines at top) / Twilight / in / Italy / D. H. / Lawrence / Duckworth / (two lines at bottom). Back cover has in lower left corner blind stamp of publishers’ device, but is otherwise blank. All edges cut. End-papers white.
Twilight in Italy was Mr. Lawrence’s first book of non-fictional prose. Copies of the first edition of this book are scarce, and they are exceedingly hard to get in fine condition. The cloth is usually faded and the gilt dull. I have seen at various times perhaps a half-dozen copies. They were all very much the same: that is to say, none was in fine state. I suspect the book never looked quite new, and that it is one of the many illustrations of how the War affected adversely workmanship in the bookmaking industry. Be that as it may, Twilight in Italy is worth having in any condition. It should be more widely read. Like Sea and Sardinia, it is too often merely a name, even to admirers of Mr. Lawrence’s other work.
The first American edition of Twilight in Italy was published, from the Duckworth sheets, by B. W. Huebsch, New York, 1916.
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AMORES
Published July 1916
Amores / Poems / By / D. H. Lawrence / (publishers’ device) / London / Duckworth and Company / 3 Henrietta Street, W. C.
Collation:—pp. viii + 140, consisting of title-page, as above (verso blank), pp. (i, ii); dedication, To / Ottoline Morrell (verso blank), pp. (iii, iv); table of Contents, pp. v-vii; p. (viii) blank; text, pp. 1-(138). Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. (138) as follows: Printed by T. and A. Constable, Printers to His Majesty / at the Edinburgh University Press Pp. (139, 140) blank. At end of volume there is 16-page, numbered but undated, catalogue of A List of the Libraries / and Series of Copyright / Books Published by / Duckworth & Co.
Crown 8vo, 7¼ × 4⅞; issued in dark blue cloth; front cover blank; backbone ornamented and lettered across in gilt: (two lines at top) / Amores / Poems / D. H. / Lawrence / Duckworth / (two lines at bottom). Back cover has in lower left corner blind stamp of publishers’ device. Top and fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.