Lady Chatterley's Lover (Signed Limited Edition)

Florence: Privately Printed, 1928.

One of 1,000 copies signed by the author, in the original dust jacket

(Item #3331) Lady Chatterley's Lover (Signed Limited Edition). D. H. Lawrence.

Lady Chatterley's Lover (Signed Limited Edition)

Florence: Privately Printed, 1928. First edition. First edition, number 63 of 1,000 copies signed by Lawrence, a superb example in the uncommon jacket. Original mauve paper covered boards, printed spine label, Lawrence's phoenix device blocked in black on front cover, untrimmed and largely unopened. With the unprinted cream dust jacket. Touch of wear to tips, edges lightly foxed, faintest offsetting to endpapers; a Near Fine copy in the jacket with small chip to foot of spine and nicks to top edge. Housed in a custom grey cloth box.

"The publication (for subscribers) of the final version of Lady Chatterley's Lover--written in the astonishing time of just five weeks, in one of Lawrence's last great bursts of creative energy--also sustained him, as he overcame the difficulties lying in the way of an individual publishing and distributing his own book. With the help of the Florentine bookseller Pino Orioli, the handsome volume was printed in and distributed from Florence, and made Lawrence more money than he had very imagined" (ODNB). The unexpurgated text was not published in the UK until 1960, as the book was considered obscene for its honest depictions of post-war injuries and impotence, domestic unhappiness, and one woman's pursuit and fulfillment of her sexual desires outside of marriage.

Roberts & Poplawski A42a (not mentioning the existence of the dust jacket).
Near Fine (Item #3331)

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