Collation:—pp. 208, consisting of half-title (with list of nine books By the same Author at top of verso), pp. (1, 2); title-page, as above (with Printed in Great Britain / by the Riverside Press Limited / Edinburgh / London: Martin Secker (Ltd.) 1923 on verso), pp. (3, 4); acknowledgement—five lines (verso blank), pp. (5, 6); table of Contents, pp. 7, 8; fly-title, Fruits (verso blank), pp. (9, 10); text, pp. 11-207; p. (208) blank. There are fly-titles before the major divisions of the work at pp. (9), (35), (49), (71), (87), (111), (139), (153), (195). Pp. (10), (34), (36), (48), (50), (72), (88), (112), (140), (152), (154), (194), (196) blank.
Contents: Same as in American edition, except for the inclusion of the six parts of Tortoises, poems which had previously been published in book form in America, but not in England. (See item 18.)
Demy 8vo, 8¾ × 5¾; issued in canary yellow boards, with black, vellum-finish cloth back, approximating half-cloth; front and back covers blank; backbone has yellow paper title-and-name label lettered across in black as follows: (a line) / Birds, Beasts / and Flowers / Poems / By / D. H. Lawrence / (a line) / Secker / (a line). Top edges black and cut; fore edges unopened; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.
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THE BOY IN THE BUSH
(with M. L. Skinner)
Published August 1924
The / Boy in the Bush / By / D. H. Lawrence / and / M. L. Skinner / London / Martin Secker / Number Five John Street Adelphi
Collation:—pp. vi (preceded by leaf with signature a on recto, verso blank) + 376, consisting of half-title (with list of eleven books By D. H. Lawrence on verso), pp. (i, ii); title-page, as above (with London: Martin Secker (Ltd.), 1924. at foot of verso), pp. (iii, iv); table of Contents, pp. v, vi; text, pp. 1-369. Printers’ imprint, beneath thin line, at foot of p. 369 as follows: Printed in Great Britain by / The Dunedin Press Limited, Edinburgh Pp. (370-376) are occupied by advertisements which list respectively Works by the following: D. H. Lawrence, Compton Mackenzie, Norman Douglas, Arthur Machen, Lascelles Abercrombie, Henry James, Jane Austen.
Crown 8vo, 7½ × 5; issued in straw colored cloth; front cover, unlettered, has in black two-line border, inside line thicker than outside; backbone ornamented and lettered across in black as follows: (one thin, one thick line at top) / The Boy / in the Bush / (dot) / D. H. Lawrence / and / M. L. Skinner / Secker / (one thick, one thin line at bottom). Top edges black and cut; fore edges cut; bottom edges untrimmed. End-papers white.