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Buy this book on-line LAWRENCE**, D[avid] H[erbert]: : THE PLUMED SERPENT. [THE ALBATROSS MODERN CONTINENTAL LIBRARY. Volume 82.]GERMANY.ALBATROSS VERLAG G.M.B.H.,HAMBURG,1933. ISBN No ISBN.
GERMANY,12mo wraps,1st thus.[A volume from the continental series/imprint similar to,but preceding,the concept and format of PENGUIN p/backs (London,1935).The first volume in the imprint was James Joyce's 'DUBLINERS'.Aldous Huxley and Virginia Woolf were included in the first 10 volumes with 'The Gioconda Smile' and To the Lighthouse' respectively.]VG+.No owner inscrptn,no dw/dj - as issued.Yellow paper,with 4 black lined borders encompassing black lettered title+author and albatross logo to upper cover; logo and international currency prices+albatross logo to rear cover; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nick or tears present.Spine/backstrip slightly darkened/aged - as usual/normal AND without reading creases.Top+fore-edges slightly aged,but also without any foxing/ spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears an unread copy - my collation excepted.Germany,12mo wraps, 1st thus,7-743pp [paginated] includes 27 chapters; plus [unpaginated] half-title+ title pages,contents list/table,and to rear - a note on type,paper printing+ binding, 2pp publisher's advert for other titles in the Modern Continental Library plus Albatross Crime Club advert to recto of previous last page.Inside/verso of rear cover an explanation in 4 languages (English,German,French and Italian) of the Colour system used.E.g. Red = adventure+ Crime(crime as The Albatross Crime Club), Blue = love stories,Green = travel and foreign peoples,Purple = biographies and historical novels etc.,Yellow = psychological novels,essays etc.,Orange = tales and short stories,humorous and satirical works,and Grey = plays.
Lawrence had three other titles in this series up to this date - Apocalypse(No.31), The White Peacock (No.32) and The Virgin and the Gipsy (No.62).
An exceptional and remarkably preserved and state of presentation,of a surviving pre-war,continental published paperback, given its period of production (these volumes were NOT to be introduced into the British Empire nor into the USA) and also that within 6 years Europe would be swept up into WW2.
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