Lawrence, D. H. with an Explanatory Foreword dealing with its discovery by P. Beaumont Wadsworth — A Prelude: His First and Previously Unrecorded Work

Thames Ditton, Surrey, The Merle Press, 1949. First edition. Hardcover. First impression. Pp 47 with portrait of Lawrence tipped-in to the verso of the half-title. Quarter bound in leather stamped in gilt on the spine with sides of brown cloth boards. Copy number 18 from an edition of 160 copies of which 150 were for sale. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket - the original plain glassine wrapper is absent. Very good .