Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$15.65 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 4 pages. Note; this is an original article separated from the volume, not a reprint or copy. Size: Octavo (15 x 24.5 cms). Quantity Available: 1. Category: The New Adelphi; Inventory No: 406329. Cosmo Books : 26 years selling on ABE; 26 years of taking care of customers on ABE; A seller you can rely on.
Seller: Cosmo Books, Shropshire., United Kingdom
Lawrence, D. H.. Pornography and Obscenity : Criterion Miscellany No 5. Faber & Faber, London, 1929.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: An Essay Lawrence wrote after the reception of Lady Chatterley's Lover, privately published 1928. He hoped to challenge the British taboos around sex: to enable men and women to consider it as a normal part of life not taboo. CONDITION Orange DJ over card wraps, printed on nice cream paper stock. 32 pages whip stitched. Internally bright and crisp as new, ligh shelf wear and a little toned to covers. Advertising slip laid in for other faber works. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Ariel Books IOBA, Auckland, New Zealand
Price: US$24.93 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 8vo. A tatty reading copy in black cloth with illegible spine title. Fep tail corners missing, inner hinges cracked. Pages yellowed with some minor soiling.
Seller: Victoria Bookshop, BERE ALSTON, DEVON, United Kingdom
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: Paper repairs to title page and one other page, some ink underlining in "Skirmish", bookplate to pastedown, pages toned, still a good copy in a sturdy binding, no dust jacket. 12mo. viii, 365 pp.
Seller: Zephyr Books, Reno, NV, U.S.A.
Lawrence D H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Privately Printed, 1929.
Price: US$57.24 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: All books outside UK sent airmail. Pay Pal accepted. Including " My Skirmish with Jolly Roger". Written exclusively as an introduction to the Popular Edition. The Author's unabridged Popular Edition. Originally issued in paper wrappers. This copy has been rebound in contemporary buckram. Faded at spine. Only Author's name lined by three gilt bands each side. Small marginal nickon first page but very clean throughout. A very acceptable good copy of a scarce item.
Seller: Lavender Fields Books PBFA, Gloucestershire, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. Hardcover. No dust jacket as issued. Bound in beige and black cloth. Gilt lettering on front Board. Tight binding and solid boards. Minor shelf wear. Bumping. Rubbing to boards. Minor rubbing and scuffing to spine. Minor loosening to inner front board. Clean, unmarked pages. A readable copy in very good condition.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Three-Quarter Cloth. First Edition of This Edition. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. viii, 365p. A near fine copy, with a very hard to see, three inch tear or perhaps a jagged crease in the marbled paper on the front cover. This seems to be a rebound copy in three-quarter orange cloth with marbled boards, orange top edges. and green endpapers. The original wrappers or covers are NOT bound in. There is no author or title on the outside of the book. An understated, but attractive copy. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Second Authorized Edition. Octavo. Rebound in 3/4 red leather over marble boards with the decoration from the paper wrappers on the front cover. Very good, light wear to spine heaviest at gutters, spine ends and corners bumped, darkening to front free end paper, pages agetoned.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$91.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Very Good Copy of this Book rebound from the original wraps in black cloth with gilt title lettering to spine.The book is printed as ''The Author's Unabridged Popular Edition'' and includes for the first time the story '' My Skirmish with Jolly Roger'' written especially and exclusively as an introduction to this popular edition.This copy has No previous names or inscriptions present.There is one pen initial to the copyright page.Page edges are tanned.The book has a firm binding with n hinge weakness.Uncommon early edition,8vo 365pp
Seller: Richard Thornton Books PBFA, Old Langho, United Kingdom
LAWRENCE, D.H.. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Privately Printed, Paris, 1929.
Price: US$112.00 + shipping
Description: Bound in orange cloth with matching boards, stamped in gold. Appears to be the 1929 binding. This is the Author's Unabridged Popular Edition which includes My Skirmish with Jolly Roger written in April of 1929. 365 pp. A most handsome copy of what is the third authorized printing of this book. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
D.H. Lawrence. LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER (LIMITED EDITION). Privately Printed, 1929.
Price: US$114.48 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: (Ref.D1 ) Numbered 315 out of 500 printed. Title page states 1929 Privately Printed at lower edge and Florence on reverse but actually printed in London by P.R.Stephenson & Charles Lahr a short time after Lawrence's death. Brown cloth covers with phoenix emblem to top left corner. Tanned endpapers with smudges and marks to prelims and some pages throughout. Boards are a little loose with threads showing at inside hinges. Some rubbing and wear to head and heel of spine. Joints starting to split at head and heel. Contents otherwise complete and unexpurgated.
Seller: Voltaire and Rousseau Bookshop, Glasgow, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paper-covered boards, backed in brown morocco with gilt-stamped lettering; 8vo; pp. [4], viii, 365. Boards rubbed; corners lightly chipped, revealing red cloth beneath; text block a little tanned and brittle along the edges. Lawrence provided a new introduction ("My Skirmish with Jolly Roger") for this popular (and less expensive) edition, which he fought to publish after the novel was pirated by at least four different publishers. First French Edition. "The Author's Unabridged Popular Edition".
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$164.60 + shipping
Description: Poor disbound copy. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 365 pages. Subjects; D. H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover. 20th century fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$172.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover; large 12mo/large 8vo; 365 pages. Black cloth hardcovers with gilt lettering on spine. Light skew to binding. Grey endpapers, yellowing. Speckled red edges. The pages are yellowing but still clear and clean. VG+/--
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Lawrence, D. H.. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Privately Printed [E. W. Titus], [Paris], 1929.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Half-bound in crimson calf with embossed gold lettering and decorations, VG+ with light wear to edges. Blank endpaper and title page have a small piece missing from lower corner, last page of text has small faintly stained area. Pages lightly tanning. Includes "My Skirmish with Jolly Roger: Being an Introduction written especially for the present popular edition" by the author
Seller: Mystery Cove Book Shop, Hulls Cove, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$186.55 + shipping
Description: In-8°; con l'originale brossura marrone, con al dorso il tassello e sul fronte stampato la fenice e il prezzo 60 Frs. Alcune residue tracce di colla sulla copertina, dorso usurato; per il reso in buone condizioni.
Seller: Libreria Antonio Pettini, ROMA, RM, Italy
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Description: Poor disbound copy. Wear and tear as with age. Text remains well preserved overall; bright and clean. Physical description; 365 pages. Subjects; D. H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover. 20th century fiction. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris: Privately Printed, 1929. One of the most famous (or infamous) erotic novels of the Twentieth Century. This is a Very Good copy of "The Author's Unabridged Popular Edition," First Edition Thus, published the year after the First Edition; it includes an exclusive Introduction by Lawrence. There is no place or publisher listed; however, it was published in Paris by Edward Titus, the expat husband of Helena Rubenstein; this was unabridged, and was a frequent target of pirates. Not rebound; in the original dark blue cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine. Clean text; 365 pages. Rubbed at the margins, and with a very slight lean; the paper stock used was not very good, and the pages are starting to tan. No dustwrapper; in an archival plastic protector. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. First Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$235.32 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Photo frontis of Lawrence. Publishers untitled limp plain brown cloth, not title. Phoenix bird device to upper left corner of front board. Printed by Tipografia Giuntina, Florence, Italy. Text is in English. Endpapers & prelims have light occasional foxing
Seller: Black Cat Bookshop P.B.F.A, Leicester, United Kingdom
D.H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Privately Printed, 1929.
Price: US$240.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: printed in Florence by Tipografia Giuntina directed by L. Fraceshini; Pirated Third edition, 3 1929 (but 1930) portrait of the author, occasional scattered spotting, ink ownership inscription, pastedowns browned, original limp cloth, a little worn on edges Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
D H Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Privately Printed [Edward Titus], Paris, 1929.
Price: US$248.04 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The second authorized printing of D.H Lawrence's controversial novel. Being the first Paris edition. This is the author's unabridged popular edition, being the second authorised edition. One of 3000 copies printed of this edition by Edward Titus. This Paris edition was published as an attempt by Lawrence to discourage piracies, which were rampant at the time. This edition precedes the British printing of the work and follows the initial Florence printing.Collated, complete.'Lady Chatterley's Lover' was a controversial novel when first published. 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 explicit, 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.Overall the novel is a love story for the upper-class woman Constance Reid, who is stuck in an unhappy marriage with a paralysed war hero. She begins an affair with the gamekeeper, and is an important commentary on class difference of the time.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.This edition also contains 'My Skirmish With Jolly Roger', which precedes the novel. This 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 introduction, Lawrence defends the contents of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. In contemporary paper covered boards. With a custom cardboard slipcase. Externally, generally smart with some creasing to the spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are slightly age toned to edges. Tape repair to the gutter of the title page, and pages iv-3. Final leaf has been adhered to the rear pastedown with archival tape. Tape repair to the rear hinge. Occasional light spots to pages. Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 11pp. 8vo. "SEX LOCKED OUT" BY D. H. LAWRENCE (PRIVATELY PRINTED, 1929). Roberts A44, listing year of publication as 1929 White printed covers are lightly soiled, with offset tanning on rear cover, else a very good copy, with text fresh and clean; originally issued with a fragile unprinted tissue wrapper, which is not present on this copy. Due to fragile construction and limited distribution, an elusive publication
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$254.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. [190 x 142 x 2o mm]. [2]ff, viii, 365 pp. Bound in the original brown paper wrappers, a phoenix device and price 60 Frs on the front, white paper spine label printed in black, uncut edges. (50 mm tear at centre of upper joint, spine a little faded). The frailty of the wrapper has caused the tear, but there is no loss to the paper. It is a good copy. With the ink signature of G. M. Spear at the head of the title and front wrapper (the latter almost invisible). Small red ink stamp of Dawson, 13 Rue Albany, Paris on final blank. "The Author's Unabridged Popular Edition" and the first Paris edition. Lawrence wanted an inexpensive volume with a large printing which would reach the pirates' clientele. He first asked Sylvia Beach who refused but suggested Edward Titus, husband of the cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein.Titus agreed on the condition that the book must include new material and Lawrence obliged with "My Skirmish With Jolly Roger". Priced at 60 francs, well below the 300 or 400 francs pirated editions were fetching, it sold out very quickly.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$254.40 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Photographic frontispiece portrait. Third Edition. 8vo. [221 x 140 x 20 mm]. [2]ff, 364pp. Bound in the original brown cloth, black phoenix device on the front cover, plain endleaves and edges. (Headcaps worn, front joint a little rubbed and corners bumped). No. 398 of 500 copies. Some spotting or light foxing (which seems to be normal) but a decent copy with a pencil note "Early private edition - valuable" and price of £2/2/-.
Seller: George Bayntun ABA ILAB PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: Second authorized edition. pp. [4], viii, 365. 1 vols. 8vo. Lawrence provided a new introduction ("My Skirmish with Jolly Roger") for this popular (and less expensive) edition, which he fought to publish after the novel was pirated by at least four different publishers. Brown wrappers printed in black, VG at least. 60m Fra. on upper cover pp. [4], viii, 365. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: originally paper bound, printed in Paris, Lawrence first published Lady Chatterley in Florence Italy in 1928, it was immediately pirated and he printed a 2nd edition in Paris in 1929, this book is that edition but , Included is a long essay on his fight with the pirate publishers., This book has been nicely rebound. It does not include the original soft covers Language: eng Language: eng 0.0 Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng Language: eng
Seller: Ian Thompson, Milton, ON, Canada
Price: US$320.55 + shipping
Description: 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). viii, 365pp. With interesting relevant letter by the original recipient. G : in good condition. 20th century rebind with original card cover bound in. Page edges browning
Seller: Barter Books Ltd, Alnwick, NORTH, United Kingdom
Price: US$762.66 + shipping
Description: Highly uncommon in the original wrappers. Good copy, edges worn. Surface split along spine cover. Text block intact. Black vignette to front cover. Lacks original spine title label. Light tanning around the page margins. This unique and rare copy remains quite well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 365 pages; Physical description: viii, 365p ; 19cm. Notes: Second authorized edition: the Author's Unabridged Popular Edition. The novel was initially published in an edition of 1,000 copies by the Orioli Press in Florence in 1928, and was almost immediately pirated by at least four different publishers. Lawrence had always intended to release a cheap version, and was spurred on to do so by the appearance of the unauthorized copies. In 1929 he approached Edward Titus and negotiated an edition to be sold at 60 francs, with a new introduction regarding the pirated printings entitled My Skirmish with Jolly Roger. 1 Kg. 1st Edition in this form (2nd authorised edition).
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
D.H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Privately Published, Florence, Italy, 1929.
Price: US$763.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Plain brown limp cloth covers. Printed by Tipografia Giuntina, Florence. Eagle motif on top edge of front cover, blank spine. Third edition stated limited to 500 copies and the No. section is left blank. There is some moderate foxing to the end papers and occasionally throughout; there is a loss of some of the dye from the back cover and a little splitting and fraying along the cover's back hinge but, on the whole this is an really decent copy of this highly sought after edition. It feels quite decadent just holding it!
Seller: M RICHARDSON RARE BOOKS (PBFA Member), Ashby cum Fenby, NE Lincolnshire, LINCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$844.00 + shipping
Description: Highly uncommon in the original wrappers. Good copy, edges worn. Surface split along spine cover. Text block intact. Black vignette to front cover. Lacks original spine title label. Light tanning around the page margins. This unique and rare copy remains quite well-preserved overall. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 365 pages; Physical description: viii, 365p ; 19cm. Notes: Second authorized edition: the Author's Unabridged Popular Edition. The novel was initially published in an edition of 1,000 copies by the Orioli Press in Florence in 1928, and was almost immediately pirated by at least four different publishers. Lawrence had always intended to release a cheap version, and was spurred on to do so by the appearance of the unauthorized copies. In 1929 he approached Edward Titus and negotiated an edition to be sold at 60 francs, with a new introduction regarding the pirated printings entitled My Skirmish with Jolly Roger. 1 Kg. 1st Edition in this form (2nd authorised edition).
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
D.H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence: Privately printed [Edward Titus], 1929.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The Second authorized edition: the Author's Unabridged Popular Edition. Octavo, pp.365. Bound in original brown paper wrappers printed in black, with Phoenix design to front cover, white label to spine, price "60Frs" to upper right and "LeCram Press-Paris" printed on back cover. One of 3000 copies printed; the novel was initially published in an edition of 1,000 copies by the Orioli Press, Florence (1928), and was almost immediately pirated by at least four different publishers. Lawrence had always intended to release a cheap version, and hoped that this official cheaper edition would discourage piracies. some slight wrinkling near the spine bottom with the full title label intact. A pleasing copy of this very fragile book, seldom seen in such condition. Housed in a blue clamshell box with a black leather spine label.
Seller: Reginald C. Williams Rare Books, Glendale, CA, U.S.A.