LAWRENCE, D. H.

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Pansies. First edition, signed limited issue, number 96 of 250 copies signed by the author. This best-known collection of Lawrence's poetry was published the year following the Lady Chatterley's Lover scandal. Pansies was also censored by Scotland Yard, which forced the omission of around a dozen poems after seizing the manuscript from the post.In the preface, Lawrence states "I can only grin once more to think of the nanny-goat, nanny-goat in-a-white-petticoat silliness of it all". The publisher P. R. Stephensen of Museum Street London did manage to sell 500 uncensored copies to subscribers in 1929. He was able to do so after proving to a court magistrate that his readers would not be corrupted by the so-called indecent morals of the collection.

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