The Forest Giant
London: Jonathan Cape, 1924.
First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very good dust jacket. 12mo, 158 pp. Yellow cloth spine with paper label, green paper-covered boards. A fine copy inscribed on the front free endpaper from Lawrences's friend J.G. Wilson (bookseller and proprietor of J.& E. Bumpus Ltd) to journalist H.D. Ziman, dated 26 July 1933. Dust jacket has internal repairs--including to two horizontal tears to the spine that are visible externally--but is clean and complete. Lawrence's only translation of a French book. According to the introduction to the Castle Hill Press edition, Lawrence knew little about Corbeau. The text was suggested by Jonathan Cape, after he wrote to them: 'If you, as a publisher, ever have anything in French which needs translating (for a fee!) please give me a chance at it. I've plenty [of] leisure in the Army, and my French is good, and turning it into English is a pleasure to me: also the cash would be welcome, however little it was." O'Brien A094.
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