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copy retaining the desirable Paul Nash dustjacket, which shows the Arc de Triomphe
through the Archway of Dartmoor Prison.
The novel is a fictionalised memoir in three parts, with the central section recounting
the author's experience as a conscientious objector in the First World War - including
an unflinching portrayal of his time at Dartmoor. Though published anonymously, a
portion of this central section had earlier been published in France - in a translation by
Ludmila Savitzky - under the title ‘Dartmoor'.
Inscribed by Rachel Annand Taylor
79. Lawrence (D.H.) The Ship of Death and
other Poems. Martin Secker, 1933, FIRST COLLECTED
EDITION, title-vignette and 12 other wood-engravings
(10 full-page) by Blair Hughes-Stanton, pp. [ix], 106,
8vo, original quarter black cloth with terracotta
boards, backstrip with red leather label lettered in gilt
and lean to spine, a few faint marks and light wear at
top corners, top edge pink, others untrimmed, very
faint spotting to free endpapers with gift inscription
to flyleaf, good (Roberts A66) £55
The gift inscription to the flyleaf is in the distinctive hand
of Lawrence’s friend and correspondent, the poet Rachel
Annand Taylor: ‘To Robin, from Banabhard, Christmas
Eve 1933’ - Taylor, whose verse was much admired by
Lawrence, characteristically signed using the Scots word
for poetess. The recipient is obscure.
80. Lewis (Wyndham) One-Way Song: Engine Fight-
Talk, The Song of the Militant Romance, If so the
Man You Are, One-Way Song, Envoi. Faber and
Faber, 1933, FIRST EDITION, 17/40 COPIES signed by
the author, border to the title-page and design on
each fly-title by Lewis, pp. 132, 8vo, original yappedged
vellum, lettered in gilt to upper board and
backstrip, the backstrip a little rubbed and
darkened with spine very slightly cocked and a
minor bump at foot, top edge gilt, edges
untrimmed, good (Morrow & Lafourcade A21a:
Pound & Grover A20b) £650
A successful turn to verse from the artist and author,
which prompted this appealing exchange with
Herbert Read at the ticket machine of Piccadilly tube
station:
‘I didn’t know you wrote verse, Lewis.’
‘I never knew it was so damned easy, Read.’
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