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Author: lawrence Title: chatterley Signed: true First edition: Yes Binding: hardcover Dust jacket: Yes
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  • Publisher: Privately Printed
  • Date published: 1928
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Octavo. Mulberry papercovered boards with spine label, Lawrence's phoenix device in black on front, and bright and supple uncutpaper pages. Near fine with a bit of wear at a few corners, a chip at the crown expertly repaired and some tape shadows to the pastedowns and endpapers, as is sometime found with this title due to the unprinted dust jacket, which is lacking. One of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author. A nice copy of a 20th Century classic. *Connolly 100.*.
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  • Publisher: Privately Printed [by the Tipografia Giuntina]
  • Date published: 1928
Full Description: LAWRENCE, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. [Florence]: Privately Printed [by the Tipografia Giuntina], 1928. First edition. Limited to 1, 000 numbered copies, signed by the author. This being number 773. Octavo (9 x 6 1/4 inches; 227 x 157 mm). [4], 365, [3, blank] pp. Original brown paper boards with printed paper spine label. Front cover printed in black with the Lawrence phoenix. Unopened. A fine copy. Housed in a quarter brown morocco clamshell case. Available by subscription only in this private Florence printing and banned in England and America for obscenity, Lady Chatterley's Lover was Lawrence's most ambitious attempt to present his vision of the mystery and wonder of sex. Lawrence described the book as "beautiful and tender and frail as the naked self, " but in England and the United States police and customs officials routinely confiscated and destroyed any copies they could find and prosecuted the booksellers. Lady Chatterley's Lover was not available in the U.S. until Grove Press brought the matter to court in 1959, over 30 years after the publication of the first edition. Roberts A42a. HBS 69119. $12, 500.
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  • Publisher: Privately Printed
  • Date published: 1928
  • Format: Hardcover
First edition. Octavo. Mulberry papercovered boards with spine label, Lawrence's phoenix device in black on front, and bright and supple uncutpaper pages. Near fine with a bit of wear at a few corners, a chip at the crown expertly repaired and some tape shadows to the pastedowns and endpapers, as is sometime found with this title due to the unprinted dust jacket, which is lacking. One of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author. A nice copy of a 20th Century classic. *Connolly 100.*.
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  • Publisher: Privately Printed [by the Tipografia Giuntina]
  • Date published: 1928
Full Description: LAWRENCE, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. [Florence]: Privately Printed [by the Tipografia Giuntina], 1928. First edition. Limited to 1, 000 numbered copies, signed by the author. This being number 773. Octavo (9 x 6 1/4 inches; 227 x 157 mm). [4], 365, [3, blank] pp. Original brown paper boards with printed paper spine label. Front cover printed in black with the Lawrence phoenix. Unopened. A fine copy. Housed in a quarter brown morocco clamshell case. Available by subscription only in this private Florence printing and banned in England and America for obscenity, Lady Chatterley's Lover was Lawrence's most ambitious attempt to present his vision of the mystery and wonder of sex. Lawrence described the book as "beautiful and tender and frail as the naked self, " but in England and the United States police and customs officials routinely confiscated and destroyed any copies they could find and prosecuted the booksellers. Lady Chatterley's Lover was not available in the U.S. until Grove Press brought the matter to court in 1959, over 30 years after the publication of the first edition. Roberts A42a. HBS 69119. $12, 500.
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