England, My / England / By D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
Collation:—pp. 242, consisting of half-title and signature A (with list of eleven books By the same Author on verso), pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with London: Martin Secker (Ltd.), 1924 on verso), pp. (3, 4); table of Contents (verso blank), pp. 5, (6); fly-title, England, My England (verso blank), pp. (7, 8); text, pp. 9-242. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. 242 as follows: Printed in Great Britain by / The Dunedin Press Limited, Edinburgh At end of volume are fourteen unnumbered pages of advertisements of books published by Martin Secker. There are fly-titles before the various stories which make up the work at pp. (7), (49), (67), (93), (111), (133), (157), (179), (199), (223). Pp. (8), (48), (50), (68), (94), (112), (132), (134), (156), (158), (180), (200), (222), (224) blank.
Contents: Same as American edition.
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) / England, / My England / (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.
England, My England was Mr. Lawrence’s second volume of short stories. It came almost eight years after the first. However, the long interval between The Prussian Officer and this second collection would seem to have less significance in his career as a writer of short stories than some reviewers of England, My England tried to make out. At any rate, the title story of the latter volume appeared in the English Review in October, 1915, and some of the other stories were published several years before their appearance in book form. All this as may be, England, My England is a Lawrence item of great importance. The book is still “easy” in either the American or the English first form.
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THE LADYBIRD
Published March 1923
The Ladybird / The Fox: The Captain’s Doll / By D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
Collation:—pp. 256, consisting of half-title (with list of five books By the same Author at top of verso), pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with London: Martin Secker (Ltd.), 1923. at foot of verso), pp. (3, 4); table of Contents (verso blank), pp. 5, (6); fly-title, The Ladybird (verso blank), pp. (7, 8); text, pp. 9-255. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. 255 as follows: Printed in Great Britain by / The Dunedin Press Limited, Edinburgh P. (256) is occupied by three excerpts from reviews of three novels By / D. H. Lawrence There are fly-titles before the separate stories which make up the work at pp. (7), (83), (161). Pp. (8), (84), (160), (162) blank.
Contents: The Ladybird; The Fox; The Captain’s Doll.