Signed book: Pansies. Limited edition of 250 copies (this being no. 7). London: Martin Secker, 1929. Hardcover with dustjacket, 6 x 9, 154 pages. Signed on the limitations page in blue ink, "D. H. Lawrence," who also has handwritten the number of this edition, "seven." In fine condition, with pencil notations to both pastedowns as well as the first and last free end pages, some light toning and soiling to covers and spine, and some light creasing to a few inside pages. Dustjacket shows scattered soiling, creasing to edges, toning to spine, and paper loss to top edge of back cover.
In the wake of his controversial 1928 masterpiece, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence responded to those critics who flouted the work by writing a series of satirical poems-some of which published under the title 'Pansies.' Once again, British censors sought to silence his prose, once again viewing it as obscene. When authorities temporarily seized his manuscript, Lawrence proclaimed, 'How sickening this dirty hypocrisy!' Eventually published in 1929, it became Lawrence's best known collection of poems. The title does not refer to flowers, but is derived from the French 'pensees' meaning 'thoughts'-thoughts that, according to Lawrence in his introduction, come 'as much from the heart and the genitals as from the head.' Pre-certified John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and RRAuction COA.
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