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Author: Lawrence, D.H.
Title: Last Poems
Place Published: Florence
Publisher:G. Orioli
Date Published: 1932
Description:

xxii, 320 pp. Edited by Richard Aldington and Giuseppe Orioli, with an Introduction. Illustrated with a color frontispiece of Lawrence's last drawing "A Crown of Thorns." Small woodcut on series page. 24x16.5 cm (9½x6½"), original boards with the Phoenix Bird logo on front cover, paper spine label, pages edges untrimmed, dust jacket with portrait of Lawrence on front panel. No. 448 of 750 copies, of which 700 were for sale. First Edition.

Number ten in the Lungarno series. These poems were printed from two manuscripts found among Lawrence's papers after his death and consist of sixty-seven poems believed to comprise the entirety of his then-unpublished poetry. Extra spine label tipped in at rear endpapers. Roberts A52a.

Soiling and wear to jacket, rear panel lightly stained, edges and folds chipped, lacking top 1½" of darkened spine; volume spine ends very slightly crimped, a touch of foxing to page edges; else fine in good jacket.