Collation:—pp. 48 (together with tipped-in dedication leaf), consisting of half-title, Bay / (signed in ink by Author and Artist:) D. H. Lawrence / Anne Estelle Rice, p. (i); Certificate of issue as follows: This is the eighth book issued by the Beaumont Press / and the fourth printed by hand 30 copies have been / printed on Japanese vellum signed by the author and / artist and numbered 1 to 30 50 copies on cartridge / paper numbered 31 to 80 and 120 copies on hand-made / paper numbered 81 to 200. / (each copy numbered by type), p. (ii); title-page, as above (verso blank), pp. (3, 4); dedication leaf; table of Contents, pp. (5-7); p. (8) blank; text, pp. 9-43; p. (44) blank; colophon as follows: HERE ENDS BAY A BOOK OF POEMS BY / D. H. Lawrence The Cover and the Decorations / designed by Anne Estelle Rice The Typography / and Binding arranged by Cyril W. Beaumont / Printed by Hand on his Press at 75 Charing / Cross Road in the City of Westminster / Completed November the Twentieth / MDCCCCXIX / (device of the Beaumont Press) / Pressman Charles Wright / Compositor C. W. Beaumont, p. 45; pp. (46-48) blank. Pp. 9, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 25, 29, 39, 41 are occupied by decorations in color, as well as by text. Tipped-in between pp. (4) and (5) is a leaf, not reckoned in pagination, with dedication To Cynthia Asquith on recto, verso blank.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5⅛; issued in decorated boards, with vellum back; front and back covers blank; lettered up the back strip in gilt as follows: (small ornament) Bay (dot) D. H. Lawrence (small ornament). Top edges rough trimmed; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
The three forms of Bay are fully described in the collation above, except as to the following points: (1) the copies on cartridge paper, with decorations in color, have a green buckram back; (2) the copies on hand-made paper have the same green buckram back, but the decorations are not in color; (3) owing to an accident, only about half of the cartridge paper edition was ever issued. All examples of this book are scarce. And this is a great pity, for Bay contains some of Mr. Lawrence’s finest short poems.
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TOUCH AND GO
Published May 1920
Touch and Go / A Play in Three Acts by / D. H. Lawrence / London: C. W. Daniel, Ltd. / Graham House, Tudor Street, E. C. 4 / 1920
Collation:—pp. 96, consisting of fly-leaf, with series-title, Plays for a People’s Theatre. II. at head, and half-title, Touch and Go in center of recto (with Copyright in the United States of America., and notice of performing rights—seven lines in all—in center of verso), pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with list of three Plays for a People’s Theatre, note on submission of mss. of plays, and quotation from Bela Kun—fourteen lines in all—on verso), pp. (3, 4); Preface, pp. 5-12; blank page (with list of Characters on verso), pp. (13), 14; text, pp. 15-96. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. 96 as follows: Printed in Great Britain by Neill and Co., Ltd., Edinburgh.
Crown 8vo, 7⅝ × 5; issued in flexible yellow boards; front cover has light blue paper title-and-name label lettered in darker blue of surrounding decorative border as follows: Touch / & Go / D. H. Lawrence. Light blue paper title-and-name label along back lettered in dark blue: Touch and Go—D. H. Lawrence. Back cover blank. Top and fore edges uncut and unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
Touch and Go is one of the easier Lawrence items. It is not difficult to get, but it is quite worth having. The play is interesting; the preface is extremely uproarious.