The first American edition of Touch and Go was published, from new plates, by Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1920.
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WOMEN IN LOVE
(Limited Edition)
Published November 1920
Women in Love / By / D. H. Lawrence / New York / Privately Printed for Subscribers Only / 1920
Collation:—pp. iv + 540, consisting of half-title, p. (1); certificate of issue, as follows: 1250 copies of this book have been / printed of which this is / No. — (each copy numbered in red ink), p. (ii); title-page, as above (with Copyright, 1920, by / D. H. Lawrence / (a line) / All rights reserved in center of verso), pp. (iii, iv); divisional half-title (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); text, pp. (3)-536; pp. (537-540) blank. There is no printer’s imprint.
Medium 8vo, 9½ × 6¼; issued in dark blue cloth; front and back covers blank; backbone has four merely ornamental raised bands, and is lettered across in gilt as follows: (two lines at top) / Women / in / Love / (a line) / D. H. Lawrence / (two lines at bottom). Top and fore edges uncut; bottom edges rough trimmed. End-papers white.
The “tall, blue Women in Love.” In this form Mr. Lawrence’s most significant and most characteristic novel had its first restricted circulation. Copies of this issue are not very scarce. Just why is difficult to say. Perhaps the edition was not fully bought up (however much it deserved to be) when the novel was published in a cheaper form by Mr. Seltzer, October, 1922.
A few (less than twenty-five) copies of this form of Women in Love were autographed, on the title-page, by Mr. Lawrence. These signed copies were the first numbered, and except for the signature, are identical with the above. They should not be confused with examples of the autographed form of Women in Love described below as item 14B.