Contents: Baby Tortoise; Tortoise-Shell; Tortoise Family Connections; Lui et Elle; Tortoise Gallantry; Tortoise Shout.
Small medium 8vo, 9 × 6; issued in old gold boards; front cover has picture in many colors; in right of foreground giant tortoise is suspended, in framework of heavy timbers, by rope around his middle; in the middle-ground and background, showing through heavy-timbered frame, is one of Hiroshige’s views of Fujiyama, the whole being a reproduction of a print by this artist; front cover lettered in black in imitation Chinese lettering as follows: Tortoises / by / D. H. Lawrence Backbone has white paper title-and-name label lettered in black: (vertical line) Tortoises—D. H. Lawrence (vertical line). Back cover blank. Top edges cut; fore edges uncut and unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
This is the first and only separate edition of Tortoises, which book has never been published in single-volume form in England. Its first appearance there between boards was in Birds, Beasts and Flowers, where it occupies pages 117-138. Although this item is still easy to come by, Lawrence collectors who haven’t it will do well to get copies soon. Already English catalogues list Tortoises at a price considerably in advance of the American publication price. Naturally the book is less common in England than here.
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SEA AND SARDINIA
Published December 12, 1921
Sea and Sardinia / By / D. H. Lawrence / With Eight Pictures / in Color by / Jan Juta / (publisher’s device—in red) / New York / Thomas Seltzer / 1921
Collation:—pp. 356 (together with frontispiece and seven pages of illustrations in color, by Jan Juta; and Map for Sea and Sardinia, by D. H. Lawrence), consisting of half-title (verso blank), pp. (1, 2); frontispiece; title-page, as above (with Copyright, 1921, by / Thomas Seltzer, Inc. / (a line) / All rights reserved / Printed in the United States of America on verso), pp. (3, 4); table of Contents (verso blank), pp. (5, 6); List of Illustrations (verso blank), pp. (7, 8); divisional half-title, pp. (9, 10); text, pp. 11-355; p. (356) blank. There is no printer’s imprint. Pp. (3), 100, 148, 180, 204, 236, 268, 300 are faced by illustrations in color tipped-in, all with protecting tissue. P. 44 is faced by map, in black.
Medium 8vo, 9¼ × 6¼; issued in light green boards with yellow cloth back, approximating half-cloth; front and back covers blank; backbone has light green paper title-and-name label lettered across in dark blue as follows: Sea / and / Sardinia / (small ornament) / By / D. H. Lawrence / (small ornament) / Thomas Seltzer (all surrounded by one-line box). Top edges cut; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.