D.H. Lawrence Collection

Rare Books

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Lawrence Holdings to 1936 held at UNSW Canberra, compiled by Professor Paul Eggert (c1994)
The items are first English or first American editions unless otherwise indicated. The listing has been developed from the Library Catalogue, complemented by physical inspection of some items. Further description of individual volumes can be found in Warren Roberts' Bibliography of D. H. Lawrence, second edition (Cambridge UP, 1982) and Jay Gertzmann's Descriptive Bibliography of Lady Chatterley's Lover (New York: Greenwood, 1989).

Aaron's rod. London. Seeker 1922, 312 p.
Aaron's rod. New York. Seltzer 1922, 347 p.
Amores : poems. London. Duckworth 1916,137 p.
Amores : poems. New York. B.W. Huebsch 1916, 112 p.
A propos of Lady Chatterley's lover : being an essay extended from 'My skirmish with Jolly Roger'. London. Mandrake Press 1930, 62 p. 'Second Edition'.
Apropos of Lady Chatterley's lover. London. Heinemann 1931, 99p.
Assorted articles. London. Seeker 1930,216 p.
Birds, beasts, and flowers : poems. London. Seeker 1923, 207 p.
The boy in the bush. London. Seeker 1924, vi, 369 p.
The boy in the bush. New York. Seltzer 1924, vi, 388 p.
Cavalleria Rusticana and other stories. By Giovanni Verga translated with an introduction by D. H. Lawrence. London. Jonathan Cape 1928, 224 p.
The collected poems of D.H. Lawrence. London. Seeker 1928, 2 vols.
A collier's Friday night. London. Seeker 1934, 87 p.
D.H. Lawrence : reminiscences and correspondence. By Earl and Achsah Brewster. London. Seeker 1934,319 p.
England my England. London. Seeker 1924,242 p.
Etruscan Places. London. Heinemann 1933, 198 p. 'Cheap' issue of 1932 first edition.
Fantasia of the unconscious. London. Seeker 1923,175 p.
Kangaroo. New York. Seltzer 1923, 421 p.
Kangaroo. London. Seeker 1923, v, 402 p.
Lady Chatterley's lover. Florence. Privately printed 1928, 365 p. 'This edition is limited to one thousand copies, No. 876 signed D.H. Lawrence.' The Orioli first edition.
Lady Chatterley's lover: including my skirmish with Jolly Roger. Paris. Privately printed 1929, 365 p. 'The author's unabridged popular edition'.
Lady Chatterley's lover. [USA]. William Faro 1930,313p.
Lady Chatterley's lover. [USA]. Nesor Books 1930, 316p. Pirated abridged edition.
Lady Chatterley's lover. London. Seeker 1932, 327 p. First authorised expurgated
edition.
Lady Chatterley's lover. Paris. Odyssey Press 1934. Fourth impression of 1933 first edition. Date-stamped '4-34'.
The ladybird. London. Seeker 1923, 255 p.
Last poems. Florence. Orioli 1932, 320 p. 'This edition is limited to 750 copies, 700 are for sale. This is No. 127.'
Last poems. London. Seeker 1933, 181 p.
The letters of D. H. Lawrence. London. Heinemann 1932, xxxiv, 889 p.
Little novels of Sicily. By Giovanni Verga translated with an introduction by D.H. Lawrence. Oxford. Blackwell 1925,191 p.
The lost girl. London. Seeker 1920,371 p.
Love among the haystacks & other pieces with a reminiscence by David Gamett. London. Nonesuch Press 1930, xiii, 96 p. Edition limited to 1600 copies.
Love poems and others. London. Duckworth 1913, 58 p.
The lovely lady. London. Seeker 1932,246 p.
The man who died. London. Seeker 1931, 156 p.
A modern lover. New York. Viking Press 1934, 296 p.
Mornings in Mexico. London. Seeker 1927,177 p.
Movements in European history. [London]. Oxford University Press 1925, xiii, 354 p. 'First illustrated edition of a work which was first published in 1921 as Movements in European history, by Lawrence H. Davison'. Nettles. London. Faber 1930, 28 p.
'Not I, but the wind... '. By Frieda Lawrence. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Rydal Press 1934, 311 p. Contains poems and letters by D. H. Lawrence.
Pansies. London. Privately printed by P. R. Stephensen for subscribers only, 1929, 125p. 'Limited to 500 copies and containing 14 poems not printed in the trade edition published in the same year by Seeker, London.'
Pansies : poems. New York. Knopf 1929, 202 p.
Phoenix : the posthumous papers of D. H. Lawrence. New York. Viking, 1936, xxvii, 852 p.
The plays of D. H. Lawrence. London. Seeker 1933, 312 p.
The plumed serpent (quetzalcoatl). London. Seeker 1926,476 p.
Pornography and obscenity. London. Faber 1929,32 p.
The Prussian officer, and other stories. London. Duckworth 1914, 310 p.
Psychoanalysis and the unconscious. New York. Seltzer 1921, 120 p.
The rainbow. London. Methuen 1915, 464 p.
The rainbow. New York. Seltzer 1924. Fourth printing, with dust wrapper.
Reflections on the death of a porcupine and other essays. Philadelphia. Centaur Press 1925, 240 p. Limited edition of 925 copies.
Sons and lovers. London. Duckworth 1913, 423 p. Two copies: one with the usual gold lettering on dark-blue binding, one with black lettering on light-blue binding (rare).
St. Mawr : together with The princess. London. Seeker 1925, 238 p.
St. Mawr. Leipzig. Tauchnitz 1930, 272 p.
The story of Doctor Manente : being the tenth and last story from the Suppers of A.F. Grazzini called II Lasca. Translation and introduction by D. H. Lawrence. Florence. Onoli 1929,119 p. Limited to 1200 copies; this is no. 542.
Studies in classic American literature. London. Seeker 1924, 175 p.
Tortoises. New York. Seltzer 1921, 50 p.
Touch and go: a play in three acts. London. C.W. Daniel 1920, 96 p.
The trespasser. London. Duckworth 1924. Third impression of 1912 first edition.
The triumph of the machine. London. Faber 1930, [3] p.
Twilight in Italy. London. Duckworth 1916,311 p.
Twilight in Italy. London. Duckworth 1924, Slip. Second impression of 1916 first
edition.
Twilight in Italy. London. Cape 1926. Microfilm.
The virgin and the gipsy. 'Florence. Orioli 1930,216 p. Limited ed. of 810 copies.
The virgin and the gipsy. London. Seeker 1930, 191 p.
The widowing of Mrs. Holroyd: a drama in three acts. London. Duckworth, 1914,93 p.
The widowing of Mrs. Holroyd: a drama in three acts. New York. Mitchell Kennerley 1914, 93 p.
The woman who rode away. London. Seeker 1928. Second impression of 1928 first edition.
Women in love. London. Seeker 1921, 508 p. First trade edition.
Young Lorenzo : early life of D.H. Lawrence, containing hitherto unpublished letters, articles, and reproductions of pictures. By Ada Lawrence and G. Stuart Gelder. Florence. Orioli 1931, xii, 275. Limited edition of 740 copies

Manuscript Collections

Papers of Paul Eggert [MSS 230]

Professor Paul Eggert is an editorial theorist, scholarly editor, and book historian within the broad field of English literature. Paul joined UNSW Canberra as a lecturer in English in 1985, served as Head of School (2001-2003) and was founding director of the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre (1993–2005).

A fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities since 1998, Eggert served as the general editor of its Academy Editions of Australian Literature (10 vols, 1996-2007) and as chair of its English-discipline section (2009-11). He received the Centenary Medal for services to the study of literature in 2003 and, later, various awards from the Association for Documentary Editing (USA, 2005), the Society for Textual Scholarship (USA, 2011 and 2017) and, in 2022, a lifetime achievement award from the D.H. Lawrence Society of North America.

Eggert’s interest in the life and work of English writer, D.H. Lawrence (including the latter’s sojourn in Australia in 1922 and his novel Kangaroo), resulted in the extraordinary collection of Lawrence rare editions (as described above), housed in Special Collections, UNSW Canberra. As well as this unrivalled rare book collection, Eggert’s extensive personal archive contains an estimated 25 containers of drafts, research papers and correspondence, relating to his Lawrence research, including the Boy in the Bush scholarly edition, produced when Eggert was Director of the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre at UNSW Canberra.

The Lawrence material was transferred to Eggert’s archive in three instalments:

1. Part-processed collection (Boxes 1-17 + Folio 1): Boy from the Bush (1924)

2. Unprocessed addition (11 folders): Boy From the Bush (1924)

Additional files completing the Special Collections’ existing archive of materials used in the preparation of a critical edition of The Boy in the Bush by D. H. Lawrence and M. L. Skinner. The novel was originally published in 1924 and the critical edition appeared in 1990 in the Works of D. H. Lawrence series of Cambridge University Press (1980–).

3. Unprocessed addition (5 boxes): Twilight in Italy and other Essays (1916)

A complete archive of textual, contextual, and editorial materials used in the preparation of a critical edition of Twilight in Italy and Other Essays (1916) by D. H. Lawrence for the Works of D.H. Lawrence series of Cambridge University Press (1980–). The critical edition, published in 1994, was eight years in preparation.

The addition contains copies of all extant autograph manuscripts by Lawrence, his revised and unrevised typescripts and proof sets, and all life-time editions (to 1930 when he died) relating to the travel essays in the critical edition. These include the ten essays in Twilight in Italy itself, and a further twelve, five of which are earlier versions of essays in Twilight and two of which had never previously been published.

A copy of the Eggert’s PhD thesis (University of Kent at Canterbury, 1981) is included. This contains many unique photographs of places and people relevant to Twilight in Italy and interviews conducted by the editor in 1979 with people or their descendants who appear in the travel book. A further series of photographs and slides, including an extended series of wayside crucifixes and peasant art and of relevant people and places, is also included in the archived material.

Papers of Garry Shead MSS 288
Artist and film maker Garry Shead was born in 1942 in Sydney. Whilst studying at the National Art School in 1961 he became one of the youngest exhibitors vying for the Archibald Prize. Throughout the 1960s, Shead worked as a cartoonist and contributor to national newspapers and magazines before joining the experimental filmmaking collective Ubu Films. During a film expedition in New Guinea, he discovered the letters D.H. Lawrence wrote in 1922 whilst in Australia. In the early 1970s he formed a close friendship with fellow artist Brett Whiteley over their shared interest in D.H. Lawrence, often travelling to places of significance and collaborating on artworks. 

Box 1/Folder 9
Handmade book ‘Kangaroo’, photographs and text created by Garry Shead and Brett Whiteley
Photograph of D.H. Lawrence portrait at Wyewurk, Thirroul, N.S.W.

Folio 1
‘Excerpts from Kangaroo - D.H. Lawrence, May 1922’. Handwritten and illustrated (a botched attempt at ‘washing’)

Papers of Tom Thompson and Elizabeth Butel MSS 009
David John Tom Thompson was born in 1953 in Parkes, New South Wales. A graduate of Macquarie University, he is a poet, editor, and publisher, and has worked as a bookshop manager, freelance journalist, and publisher. Amongst many positions held are literary publisher for Angus & Robertson, 1990-1993, associate publisher with Imprint Collins Australia, 1988-1990, publisher for the Australian Bicentennial Authority, 1984-1988. Thompson has his own ETT Imprint, representing nearly one hundred Australian authors and estates, many of which were purchased from the Angus & Robertson backlist in the mid-1990s and the Angrier Penguins Press.

Artist, writer, teacher and publisher, Elizabeth Ann Butel was born in 1951 in Sydney, New South Wales, graduating from Sydney University, 1973, East Sydney Technical College, 1978 and the City Art Institute, 1981. She has worked as a secondary school teacher, freelance journalist, writer/editor, and publisher.

Series 6/Folder 147-149 
Correspondence, articles on D.H. Lawrence and drafts of Raymond Southall's forward for Kangaroo, by D.H. Lawrence, 1989-1993

Series 10/Box-folder 3 
Photographs relating to the publication entitled Kings Cross album : pictorial memories of Kings Cross, Darlinghurst, Woolloomooloo & Rushcutters Bay, by Elizabeth Butel and Tom Thompson 1984
Photographs relating to series 6, including:
Wyewurk, D.H. Lawrence, Frieda Lawrence, Laura Forrester, Mr and Mrs Marchbanks, 1922
Cover for Kangaroo, the corrected edition, by D.H. Lawrence