An Essay on Flecker
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1937.
First American Edition. Softcover. Very good. 4 pp, in stapled wrappers with light handling wear, a few tiny spots to front wrapper. Compliments slip from the Keeper, Department of Printed Books at the Bodlein Library, Oxford, laid in. According to O'Brien (A199), this essay was written in 1925 for publication in a periodical, but did not appear in print until 1937. The English edition published by Corvinus Press was limited to 30 copies, while "56 copies were printed to secure American copyright." It later appeared in Men in Print (1940). Lawrence met poet and British civil servant James Elroy Flecker and his wife in Lebanon in 1911. He visited them several times, and in 1913 worked with Flecker in smuggling some rifles from a British ship in Beruit harbor to the British consulate in Aleppo (Tabachnick, p. 58-59).
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