Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$23.10 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: A slim volume in blue cloth; pp. 63; phoenix vignette to title page. Slight shelf wear and spine a little faded.
Seller: Rattlesnake Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Dust jacket torn at spine and missing bottom 2 inches. Book in in very good condition.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st printing; blue c w/gilt titles; lite sunning; 63 clean, unmarked pages Size: 12 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
D H Lawrence. A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Mandrake Press, 1930.
Price: US$25.67 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 62pp. Bright blue boards with slight fading to spine. Two very small paint flecks to covers. Internally very clean. An essay extended from "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger".
Seller: Gallois Books, Bayonne, France
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Some fading to spine and margins of boards. Spine lettering faded from red to black.; (63), [1] pages. Blue cloth boards, with red lettering on spine and front board. Page dimensions: 189 x 118mm. [Reference: Roberts & Poplawski (2001) A48b.]
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$33.06 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original blind-boardered title-bocked cloth; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 62, [2] p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley's lover. Sex. Erotic stories, English History and criticism. Married women in literature. Adultery in literature. Erotic stories, English History and criticism. Married women in literature. Adultery in literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 12mo. 63 pp. Cloth, red titling and ruling, no dw, else very good copy. (78142).
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
D H Lawrence. A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Mandrake Press., 1930.
Price: US$35.93 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 1930 Hardback published by Mandrake Press, wear, scuff marks and discolouration to boards, pages in good condition, shipped from the UK
Seller: Devils in the Detail Ltd, Oxford, United Kingdom
D.H. Lawrence. A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Mandrake Press Ltd., 1930.
Price: US$38.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Jacket has some dust wear. Pages/boards clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Mandrake Press, London, 1930.
Price: US$41.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1930. 62pp. 'Being an essay extended from "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger". Faded spine with slight rubbing to the top. There's also slight fading to the top edge of the back board, and a few insignificant marks. Overall this is a vg copy.
Seller: Edinburgh Books, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$46.00 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original blind-boardered title-bocked cloth; wear and tear as with age. Text remains in fine condition and without blemish. Physical description; 62, [2] p. ; 20 cm. Subjects; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley's lover. Sex. Erotic stories, English History and criticism. Married women in literature. Adultery in literature. Erotic stories, English History and criticism. Married women in literature. Adultery in literature. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue cloth in tidy condition, spine slightly sunned with a good dust jacket which is a little rubbed, chipped and having some small loss on the spine, neat previous owners name to the first blank, contents clean, 63pp, first edition Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Clarendon Books P.B.F.A., Leicester, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H. A PROPOS OF LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. MANDRAKE PRESS LONDON 1930, LONDON, 1930.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG++.
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
D. H. Lawrence.. A Propos of Lady Chatterley s Lover.. Mandrake Press, London 1930, 1930.
Price: US$51.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. Octavo. 63pp. Original blue cloth with light edge wear and fading, otherwise very good indeed in a near very good, slightly faded and dulled dust jacket with some edge nicks and chips.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$57.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Antique laid paper; blue cloth, titled and ruled in gilt.Orange pictorial dust-jacket a little rubbed and soiled. A very good copy.
Seller: Collinge & Clark, London, United Kingdom
D. H. Lawrence. A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Mandrake Press LTD, London, 1930.
Price: US$61.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The second trade edition of D. H. Lawrence's essay defending his controversial novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', published by The Mandrake Press. The second expanded trade edition of this work, previously published as 'My Skirmish With Jolly Roger'.'A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover' was written as Lawrence's response to the pirated editions of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' being published in the States and in Europe. The piracy was rampant for this novel after it was banned for obscenity in many countries, including in the U.K.In this work, Lawrence defends the contents of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was a controversial novel when first published in a private edition in Italy in 1928 and France in 1929. An unexpurgated edition was not openly published in the U.K. until 1960, when it was the subject of an important obscenity trial against Penguin Books. The book had been banned due to its obscenity in being sexually explicitly, and for its use of the then-unprintable four-letter words. The romance in the novel was also notorious at the time as it took place between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.This was an important novel of the twentieth century, ushering in the sexual revolution that happened post-World War Two into the 60s and 70s.Published by the Mandrake Press, a small British press that was founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephensen in 1929. The company ran into financial issues in 1930, leading to a consortium led by the occultist Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press LTD. The consortium was also unsuccessful and the press was dissolved in 1930. During their short publishing run the press published over thirty items, including works by D. H. Lawrence, Giovanni Boccaccio Cecil Roth, and more.Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper, 'Fenton Braithwaite, Mill Lane, Lr Manton, N Blackpool'. Braithwaite was a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, working at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally, generally smart, with light marks and discolouration to the boards. Six puncture marks to the rear board, puncturing through to the rear endpapers. Prior owner's ink inscription to the recto to the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H. A PROPOS OF LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. MANDRAKE PRESS LONDON 1930, LONDON, 1930.
Price: US$77.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG++.
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H. A PROPOS OF LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. MANDRAKE PRESS LONDON 1930, LONDON, 1930.
Price: US$77.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG++.
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H. A PROPOS OF LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. MANDRAKE PRESS LONDON 1930, LONDON, 1930.
Price: US$77.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG++.
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The author's own "post-script or afterthought" to this enduring and popular novel. Toning to the front and rear feps with some mild foxing. 62 Pages. Contents clean and binding sound. 1st Edition. Condition: Good. Dust jacket: Fair. Edge-wear with 1cm closed tear. Insect damage to front panel. Sunning. Binding: Hardcover. Blue cloth. Specks of foxing to front board. 2 small stain marks.
Seller: Quagga Books ABA ; ILAB, Cape Town, South Africa
Price: US$86.00 + shipping
Description: 63 p. Roberts A48b Very good condition chipped d.j.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$89.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover book , first edition in dustjacket. 62 pages. A Fine copy with very slight tanning to front endpaper in a Very Good dustjacket. Very light edge wear to top edge of jacket, no inscriptions, pictures available.
Seller: David Ford Books PBFA, Cley-next-the-Sea, United Kingdom
LAWRENCE, D.H.. A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Mandrake Press, London, 1930.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 63pp., blue cloth, d.w. London: Mandrake Press, 1930. First Edition. Being an essay extended from "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger". Dust wrapper spine rubbed, otherwise fine.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: . Lawrence's own "post script or afterthought" essay to the novel, Lady Chatterley's Lover. Original blue cloth boards with red borders and lettering. Clean contents. Dust jacket rubbed with mild wear to the spine and extremities. Rear of the cover has a few imprinted marks.
Seller: Rare And Antique Books PBFA, Exeter, DEVON, United Kingdom
D. H. Lawrence. A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. The Mandrake Press LTD, London, 1930.
Price: US$166.82 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An advance copy of the first trade edition of D. H. Lawrence defensive essay about his controversial novel, 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. An advance copy, stated to the half-title 'Advance Copy with compliments from Mandrake Press Ltd. Date of Publication is June 24th. Price 3s. 6d.'. This is the advance copy of the first trade edition.'A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover' was written as Lawrence's response to the pirated editions of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' being published in the States and in Europe. The piracy was rampant for this novel after it was banned for obscenity in many countries, including in the U.K.In this work, Lawrence defends the contents of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was a controversial novel when first published in a private edition in Italy in 1928 and France in 1929. An unexpurgated edition was not openly published in the U.K. until 1960, when it was the subject of an important obscenity trial against Penguin Books. The book had been banned due to its obscenity in being sexually explicitly, and for its use of the then-unprintable four-letter words. The romance in the novel was also notorious at the time as it took place between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.This was an important novel of the twentieth century, ushering in the sexual revolution that happened post-World War Two into the 60s and 70s.Published by the Mandrake Press, a small British press that was founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephensen in 1929. The company ran into financial issues in 1930, leading to a consortium led by the occultist Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press LTD. The consortium was also unsuccessful and the press was dissolved in 1930. During their short publishing run the press published over thirty items, including works by D. H. Lawrence, Giovanni Boccaccio Cecil Roth, and more.In the original glassine wrap. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original glassine wrap. Externally, smart. Spine is a little faded. Glassine wrap is torn with a little loss. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with just a couple of light handling marks. Near Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
D. H. Lawrence. A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Mandrake Press LTD., London, 1930.
Price: US$205.32 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first trade edition of D. H. Lawrence's essay defending his controversial novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover', one of the few works published by the Mandrake Press. The first expanded trade edition of this work, previously published as 'My Skirmish With Jolly Roger'.In the original unclipped dustwrapper.'A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover' was written as Lawrence's response to the pirated editions of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' being published in the States and in Europe. The piracy was rampant for this novel after it was banned for obscenity in many countries, including in the U.K.In this work, Lawrence defends the contents of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was a controversial novel when first published in a private edition in Italy in 1928 and France in 1929. An unexpurgated edition was not openly published in the U.K. until 1960, when it was the subject of an important obscenity trial against Penguin Books. The book had been banned due to its obscenity in being sexually explicitly, and for its use of the then-unprintable four-letter words. The romance in the novel was also notorious at the time as it took place between an upper-class woman and a working-class man.This was an important novel of the twentieth century, ushering in the sexual revolution that happened post-World War Two into the 60s and 70s.Published by the Mandrake Press, a small British press that was founded by Edward Goldston and P. R. Stephensen in 1929. The company ran into financial issues in 1930, leading to a consortium led by the occultist Aleister Crowley formed Mandrake Press LTD. The consortium was also unsuccessful and the press was dissolved in 1930. During their short publishing run the press published over thirty items, including works by D. H. Lawrence, Giovanni Boccaccio Cecil Roth, and more. In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart. A touch of fading to the spine and extremities. Dustwrapper with light edgewear, resulting in a couple of small chips. Spine of dustwrapper is discoloured, with a couple of marks to the wraps. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean. Fine
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
LAWRENCE, D.H.. A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. London: The Mandrake Press, 1930, 1930.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. A fine and fresh copy in a dust jacket with some tiny chips along the bottom of the front panel and minor soiling. This copy has an outer jacket from Selfridge's with a cut-out at the spine for the title. Another dealer speculated that this might have been intended as a 'modesty jacket' given the notoriety of the subject matter. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$326.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Copy No. 241 of D. H. Lawrence's separately published introduction to the Paris popular edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover, together with the first trade edition of the expanded introduction, published the following year under the title A Propos of Lady Chatterley's Lover. Jolly Roger: Slim Demy 8vo (218 x 147mm): [12]pp, with scarce erratum slip laid in. Publisher's speckled beige paper-covered boards, matching beige paper title label printed in black to upper cover, patterned end papers printed in rose and black. A Very Fine copy without noticeable flaw. A Propos: Slim crown 8vo (189 x 115mm): 62,[2]pp, with title-page vignette. Publisher's French blue cloth ruled and lettered in brown; salmon-pink illustrated dust jacket ruled and lettered in black and priced 3/6. An excellent example, tightly bound and clean throughout. Roberts A48 (Although the limitation statement states that 600 copies were printed, "the first printing consisted of 700 copies according to the publishers.") and A48b. These introductions were Lawrence's response to the controversy of Lady Chatterley's Lover and the rampant piracy of the novel. In the spring of 1928, Lawrence had commissioned the Tipografia Guintina, in Florence, to print Lady Chatterley's Lover after it was rejected by numerous English publishers. He planned to sell one thousand signed and numbered copies for £2 each, with friends acting as agents. By the end of the year, nearly all copies were sold, despite (or perhaps because of) the novel being banned from the United States and about to be suppressed in London. In these introductions, Lawrence took a two-pronged approach to the defense of Lady Chatterley's Lover. He began by explaining his decision to bring out an authorized popular edition, in response to the piracies. Then he broached the topic of sex , arguing in favor of treating sex respectfully but explicitly in literature. N. B. With few exceptions (always identified), we only stock books in exceptional condition, with dust jackets carefully preserved in archival, removable mylar sleeves. All orders are packaged with care and posted promptly. Satisfaction guaranteed. (Fine Editions Ltd is a member of the Independent Online Booksellers Association, and we subscribe to its codes of ethics.).
Seller: Fine Editions Ltd, Lancaster, PA, U.S.A.