Lawrence (D.H.).- Magnus (Maurice) Dregs: Experiences of an American in the Foreign Legion, original typescript, editorial manuscript revisions by D.H. Lawrence, modern morocco-backed box, 1920.

Lawrence (D.H., writer, 1885-1930).- Magnus (Maurice, American traveller and author, 1876-1920) Dregs: Experiences of an American in the Foreign Legion, original typescript, 2 titles and c. 225pp. including divisional titles, editorial manuscript revisions by D.H. Lawrence, browned, some edges creased, ink inscription of Magnus on titles "Written in October 1917 stolen and destroyed in parts by various censors during war Re-written from original notes July 1920", loose, leather book-label of Haven O'More, modern morocco-backed box, [cf. Roberts B14], folio, 1920.

⁂ One of a small number of typescripts known; this version with D.H. Lawrence's autograph corrections, but without Lawrence's celebrated Introduction to the work.

Maurice Magnus, a one time manager of Isidora Duncan served in the French Foreign Legion in 1916-17 and wrote Dregs as an exposé of the cruel life of a legionnaire. Lawrence met Magnus in Florence in 1919, and after the latter's suicide in 1920, to escape arrest for debt, agreed to write an introductory memoir for the book. In the introduction Lawrence's frank and forthright criticism of Magnus's character aroused a hostile reaction from Norman Douglas, a fellow friend of Magnus.