Lawrence, D. H. — A Modern Lover

London, Martin Secker, 1934. First edition. Hardcover. First impression. Pp 312. Publisher's brown cloth boards stamped in gilt on the spine and blind stamped on the upper and lower boards. A clean, unmarked and tightly bound copy without dust jacket. Printed 2-colour leaflet advertising The Complete Pocket Edition of the Novels and Tales laid-in. The six shorter stories in this volume belong to Lawrence's earliest phase of authorship, and were written in 1910-11. The unfinished novel, "Mr Noon", was written in 1921. The six short stories are: A Modern Lover; The Old Adam; Her Turn; Strike-pay; The Witch à la Mode; New Eve and Old Adam. Very good .