D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature.

by LAWRENCE

£1,500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

From the Library of the Founder of the Black Sparrow Press LAWRENCE, D.H. Studies in Classic American Literature. New York: Thomas Seltzer . 1923. 8vo. Original blue cloth, spine and upper board lettered in gilt, top-edge stained blue, in the dust-jacket priced $3.00 to upper edge of front flap; pp. 264, [2]; minor pushing to spine tips, gilt lettering dulled but clear, jacket with two small archival tape reinforcements interior of jacket at head of spine; an uncommonly sharp, near-fine copy in a fine, bright jacket; bookplate of Howard Weston Johnson to front pastedown, small booklabel of John K. Martin to rear pastedown. An uncommonly bright first impression of Lawrence’s pioneering and deeply personal read-ing of American literature, from the library of John K. Martin, founder of the Black Sparrow Press. In 1918, after years of travel at home and abroad, D.H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda returned for a while to the Midlands, living in a cottage at Middleton-by-Wirksworth provided by his sister Ada. It was during this period that Lawrence worked on the essays that became Studies in Classic American Literature , substantially rewriting them in 1922 for publication the following year. These studies of Benjamin Franklin, Hector St John de Crèvecœur, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Richard Henry Dana, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman constitute one of the earliest, and still among the most penetrating, attempts by a British writer to come to terms

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• Binding: Hardcover

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