Lorenzo in Taos The Story of D. H. Lawrence in New Mexico. de LUHAN, Mabel Dodge - 1933

London: Martin Secker 1933, 1933. First English edition. 8vo. 228x150mm. pp. 320. Frontispiece consisting of a black and white photograph of D. H. Lawrence taken by Edward Weston. Original brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Original cream dust-jacket printed in black with author's photograph to front panel. Previous owner's small book ticket to rear pastedown. Small booksellers ticket to front pastedown. Dust-jacket very slightly strengthened at spine. A fine copy in a fine dust-jacket. This memoir by Mabel Dodge Luhan is a personal recollection of Lawrence's time in New Mexico where she had invited him to stay. In her preface addressed to Robinson Jeffers, she explains that this book "tries to show you how we felt and acted some years ago...the painful days that brought about changes in us all". This book has been described as "the best portrait there will ever be of Lawrence himself".