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: (one thin, one thick line at top) / The / Ladybird / (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 Ladybird, beyond all question one of the most distinguished books of contemporary fiction, was published in America under the title The Captain’s Doll, by Thomas Seltzer, New York, April, 1923. The order of the stories in the American edition was: The Captain’s Doll; The Fox; The Ladybird.
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STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE
Published August 1923
Studies in / Classic American / Literature / By D. H. Lawrence / (publisher’s device) / New York / Thomas Seltzer / 1923
Collation:—pp. x + 266, consisting of half-title (with list of fourteen books By D. H. Lawrence, surrounded by one-line border, on verso), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with Copyright, 1923, by / Thomas Seltzer, Inc. / (a line) / All Rights Reserved / Printed in the United States of America on verso), pp. (iii, iv); table of Contents (verso blank), pp. (v, vi); Foreword, pp. vii-ix; p. (x) blank; text, pp. 1-264; pp. (265, 266) blank. There is no printer’s imprint.
Contents: Foreword; The Spirit of Place; Benjamin Franklin; Hector St. John de Crèvecœur; Fenimore Cooper’s White Novels; Fenimore Cooper’s Leatherstocking Novels; Edgar Allan Poe; Nathaniel Hawthorne and “The Scarlet Letter;” Hawthorne’s “Blithedale Romance;” Dana’s “Two Years Before the Mast;” Herman Melville’s “Typee” and “Omoo;” Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick;” Whitman.
Medium 8vo, 9 × 6¼; issued in medium blue cloth; front cover has one-line border in blind, and is lettered in gilt as follows: Studies in Classic / American Literature / (a line) / D. H. Lawrence Backbone lettered across in gilt: Studies / in / Classic / American / Literature / D. H. / Lawrence / Thomas / Seltzer Back cover blank. Top edges blue and cut; fore and bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
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STUDIES IN CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE
Published June 1924