D H Lawrence (Signed)

First edition, first impression.  One of a signed, edition limited to 260 copies, of which 250 were available for sale, this being No. 176, signed by the author on the limitation page.  Decorative buckram cloth boards with tan canvas over spine. Top edge gilt.  8vo.  Covers are worn and rubbed around edges, gently rounded on corners and a little dull.  A little toning in the gutters of the endpapers and a few minor signs of age and handling to pages else internally neat, clean and tight.  Some pages uncut.

A slim volume recording Richard Aldington’s impressions and recollections of novelist D H Lawrence.  Aldington was a pioneer of the Imagist movement in poetry, under the influence of Ezra Pound who he met early in life.  He was a long-term friend of Lawrence and, although their relationship was at times tense and strained, some years later Aldington would go on to write a definitive biography of Lawrence, Portrait of a Genius, But…The Life of D H Lawrence.  A trade issue of this work was published in the same year.