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LAWRENCE, D.H. The Escaped Cock . Paris: Roger Lescaret for the Black Sun Press, 1929. 4° (210 x 165mm). Title and text printed in red and black. Colour-printed frontispiece and 4 colour-printed head- and tailpieces after Lawrence. Original printed wrappers, the lower wrapper with Lawrentian phoenix device after Lawrence, glassine dustwrapper, slipcase. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED TO 500 COPIES, THIS NO. 39 OF 50 ON JAPANESE VELLUM SIGNED BY LAWRENCE. The Escaped Cock was subsequently issued under the title The Man Who Died . Minkoff A27; Published in Paris p.408; Roberts Lawrence (2001) A50b.