Published May 1921
Women in Love / By D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
Collation:—pp. 512, consisting of half-title (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with London: Martin Secker (Ltd.), 1921 at foot of verso), pp. (3, 4); table of Contents (verso blank), pp. 5, (6); text, pp. 7-508. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. 508 as follows: Printed in Great Britain by / The Dunedin Press Limited, Edinburgh Pp. (509-512) are occupied respectively by Some Press Opinions of / The Lost Girl; The Tales of / Henry James; The Novels of / Compton Mackenzie; and an advertisement of New Poems.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in brown cloth; front cover, unlettered, has in blind two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone ornamented and lettered across in gilt as follows: (one thin, one thick line at top) / Women in / Love / (dot) / D. H. / Lawrence / Secker / (one thick, one thin line at bottom). Back cover same as front. Top and fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white. Uniform with The Lost Girl.
The first English edition of Women in Love. This edition, which was from new plates, has been reprinted at least three times. Copies of the first printing are becoming scarce. Catalogues sometimes allege that this edition was “withdrawn from circulation.” Mr. Secker says that it was not.
(14B)
WOMEN IN LOVE
(Special Signed Edition)
Published May 1922
Women in Love / By / D. H. Lawrence / New York / Privately Printed for Subscribers Only / 1920