The White Peacock

London: Heinemann, 1911. First Edition. Hard Cover. (London: William Heinemann [Duckworth binding] 1911). First Edition; Colonial Issue in the Duckworth binding. Publisher's blue-grey boards printed white on the upper cover and the spine with publisher's device to the back board. A neat name and date (1920) on the front paste-down and quite heavy foxing to the earlypages of the book especially the half-title, boards faded, spine ends pushed and frayed. A VG copy or thereabouts. The half-title indicates that this book was part of Heinemann's Colonial Library of Popular Fiction issued for sale in the British Colonies and India and not to be imported into Europe or the USA. A note on the Colonial editions of this book. Warren Roberts (A bibliography of D H Lawrence pages 4-5 indicates that there was a colonial issue published by William Heinemann (his A1 c. on page 4) and a colonial issue, The Duckworth binding is identical to the Heinemann Colonial Edition except for the binding which is in blue-grey cloth and the words DUCKWORTH at the base of the spine. Duckworth binding (his A1 d. on page 5). Both colonial editions utilised the sheets from the Heinemann first edition of 1911 with the date 1911 on the title page as called for. The reason for the two bindings of the Colonial Edition is that Lawrence switched publisher in 1912. In terms of scarcity it is much less common than the true first anyway as copies were only distributed in the colonies and not for sale in the UK/ Europe. Lawrence's first novel. Note: This book should NOT be mistaken for any later Duckworth reprint from 1915 onwards. At the time of preparing this catalogue description I can find no other copies of this First Edition Colonial Issue in the Duckworth binding for sale on the www. Photographs/scans available upon request.