A scarce early copy of The Adelphi, including an essay by DH Lawrence (Indians and an Englishman), a translation by DH Lawrence of Giovanni Verga's story Across the Sea, 10 poems by Katherine Mansfield, three poems by Anna Akhmatova, seven letters by Chekhov to Gorki, and a piece by William Gerhardi called Mr Lawrence and the Wreck of the Love-Service. Other pieces reflect upon Lawrence's recently published novel Kangaroo and the tales in The Ladybird ("astonishing and poetic"). The magazine itself, being nearly 100 years old, has collected a number of spots at the very back and the front, otherwise it's quite lightly spotted and in some places not at all, and it's spotted around the edges of the pages. There's no other markings to the text. The spine is creased, but the binding is still holding up well. The covers are clearly shelfworn and handled, for example around the edges and at the top and bottom of the spine. Just to the rear of the top of the spine, there's a small patch missing, about half a centimetre by half a centimetre. There's 110 pages in the magazine, with a good array of interesting adverts (such as The Labour Monthly touting Trotsky on 'Man does not live by politics alone') and other features such as a piece by Murry called On Tolstoi and Other Things. "What that man knew and told in War and Peace is so tremendous that we are left wondering at what he knew and did not tell." Some photos of this copy of The Adelphi to come soon. Seller Inventory # 1011

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Title: The Adelphi, November 1923, Volume 1 Number 6

Publisher: British Periodicals Limited

Publication Date: 1923

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

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Books, periodicals and printed ephemera: interesting, competitively-priced and accurately described. Previously on Abebooks as an offshoot of the small independent publisher Agre Books, named after "the thicket-searcher Agre" in George Chapman's Hymnus in Cynthiam (1594), in which a pack of hounds fall "to howling in their happinesse: / As when a flocke of school-boyes... gets leave to sport, / And then like toyle-freed deare, in headlong sort / With shouts, and shrieks, they hurrey from the schoole..." But as no one was ever sure how to spell or pronounce Agre, with some regret that hound's name has been retired. However - while stocks last - you can expect a few copies of old Agre titles to be among the many things listed here, with some Chapman too. (Chapman had the necessary humorous spirit for an Abebooks seller: "I rest as resolute as Seneca, satisfying my selfe if but a few, if one, or if none like it".)

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