The Escaped Cock

Paris: Black Sun Press, 1929. First Edition. Wide, small quarto in offwhite flapped wraps; 95 pages; color frontis with glassine tissue guards; illustratios. A well-read copy, with some previous glue-repair to spine back strip; newspaper clipping on Lawrence laid into rear resulting in some browning; minor soiling to outer margins of a few leaves. Overall, a very good(-) to good(+) copy thus. Lacks slipcase and glassine jacket. Please refer to photos. Paperback.

From the storied Black Sun Press of Harry and Caresse Crosby. Exemplar 306 of 400 unsigned copies, as stamped on colophon. Quirky and charming bookplate of one Oliver S. Granner to front wrap verso. Also laid in is a 1985 TLS from one Don of Ponca City, Oklahoma to an Elton, about Lawrence's books and of a book-buying trip to San Francisco and the opurchase of D.H Lawrence material. // Later retitled The Man Who Died, this novel reimagines the resurrection of Christ as an awakening to physical life and sensuality. "A man, unnamed but unmistakably modeled on Jesus, rises from the dead in confusion and alienation. He leaves the tomb and enters a world he no longer recognizes, forsaking the spiritual burden of saviorhood to embrace the immediacy of corporeal existence. Wandering into a foreign land, he encounters a pagan priestess and, through their erotic and emotional union, rediscovers the meaning of life through the body rather than through sacrifice or abstract divinity."