Collation:—pp. iv + 540, consisting of blank page, p. (i); certificate of issue, as follows: Fifty copies have been / signed by the Author, / of which this is No. (each copy numbered in ink) / (signed in ink by the Author:) D. H. Lawrence, 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, 9³⁄₁₆ × 6¼; issued in brown cloth; front cover, unlettered, has in blind two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone ornamented and lettered in gilt as follows: (one thin, one thick line at top) / Women in / Love / (dot) / D. H. / Lawrence / 1920 / (one thick, one thin line at bottom). Back cover same as front. Top edges dark green and cut; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
This small edition of Women in Love was done by Martin Secker, who imported the sheets for it from America. These sheets were the same as those printed for item 14, which was, of course, brought out by Thomas Seltzer, but without his imprint.
Except for size, copies of this edition of Women in Love are uniform with the Secker format of Mr. Lawrence’s novels, beginning with The Lost Girl and followed by the ordinary Women in Love described immediately above.
Before the Seltzer sheets were put into the Secker “case,” they were trimmed about five-sixteenths of an inch at the top by the English binders. This accounts for the slightly greater height of the copies in the blue “case.” I mention this because the signed copies in brown are sometime described as the tall-paper copies. Obviously any such description of the Secker book needs qualifying. All this may be summed up as follows: all forms of the “1920” issues of Women in Love, whether signed or not, whether bound in blue or brown, were from the sheets of the Seltzer privately printed edition. To this summary may be appended the following observations: (1) these “1920” forms constitute the real first printing of Women in Love; (2) this is one of the two books which Mr. Lawrence has thus far signed—and the only novel.
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THE LOST GIRL
Published November 1920
The Lost Girl / By D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
Collation:—pp. 372, consisting of half-title (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with London: Martin Secker (Ltd.), 1920 at foot of verso), pp. (3, 4); table of Contents (verso blank), pp. 5, (6); text, pp. 7-371. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. (372) as follows: Printed in Great Britain by / The Dunedin Press Limited, Edinburgh
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) / The Lost / Girl / (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.