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) / Kangaroo / (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 American edition of Kangaroo was published, from new plates, by Thomas Seltzer, New York, 1923.
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BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS
Published October 9, 1923
Birds, Beasts / and Flowers / By / D. H. Lawrence / (publisher’s device) / Published by Thomas Seltzer / New York MCMXXIII
Collation:—pp. xii+180, consisting of half-title (verso blank), 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); acknowledgement—three lines (verso blank), pp. (v, vi); table of Contents, pp. vii-ix; p. (x) blank; divisional half-title (verso blank), pp. (xi, xii); text, pp. 1-180. There is no printer’s imprint.
Pott 4to, 8¼ × 6¼; issued in strawberry pink buckram; front and back covers blank; backbone has white paper title-and-name label lettered across in red as follows: Birds, / Beasts / and / Flowers / D. H. / Lawrence Top edges cut; fore and bottom edges uncut. End-papers white.
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BIRDS, BEASTS AND FLOWERS
Published November 1923
Birds, Beasts / and Flowers / Poems / By / D. H. Lawrence / London / Martin Secker / Number Five John Street / Adelphi