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Lawrence, D.H.. Lady Chatterley's Lover. PRIVATELY PRINTED, FLORENCE, 1928.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: Cracked front and back hinges. Front cover is almost detached from the book. Front free endpage is detached. Bookplate on fep. No markings. DATE PUBLISHED: 1928 EDITION: 365

Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.

Lawrence, D. H.. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Privately Printed, 1928.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A pirated edition. Number 126 of 1500 copies. Brown covers, 365pp. Many pirated editions of this book were published: this one is an early one, printed in the same year as the legitimate edition. Pencil mark on front cover, yellowing to edges and endpapers, binding professionally restored. A fun item.

Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada

Lawrence, D. H.. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Privately Printed, 1928.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A pirated edition. Number 126 of 1500 copies. Brown covers, 365pp. Many pirated editions of this book were published: this one is an early one, printed in the same year as the legitimate edition. Pencil mark on front cover, yellowing to edges and endpapers, binding professionally restored. A fun item.

Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.

Lawrence, D. H.. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence: Privately Printed, 1928.

Price: US$950.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Large octavo, black moiré-patterned cloth with paper-spine label printed in red and black; with a touch of rubbing. Pirated limited edition, published shortly after the first edition of Lawrence's controversial novel, with various typographical errors reproduced from the original 1928 Tipografia Giuntina edition. Numbered in red and black, "No. 765," on the front free endpaper. Roberts A42. ---- From the library of Milton C. Rose, with the patron of the arts and prominent attorney's bookplate on the front pastedown. Rose (1904-2002), a onetime law partner of Richard Nixon and John N. Mitchell in the firm Nixon Mudge Rose Alexander & Mitchell, was instrumental in bringing Nixon into the firm in 1963 after he had lost the election for governor of California. Rose s collection of art was donated to the Cleveland Art Institute and to the Williams College Art Museum, which has a room bearing his name. A classic work with a most distinguished provenance.

Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.

D. H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover SIGNED. Florence, Italy, 1928.

Price: US$2750.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: "Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D. H. Lawrence. Signed by the author on a limitation page from a Signed Limited Edition and affixed professionally by a bookbinder. This edition is likely pirated, printed shortly after the first edition and is nearly identical in format to the true first. Without the copyright notice of Tipografia Giuntina at the bottom of the copyright page and "Privately Printed, Florence, 1928" on the title page. From Wikipedia: "The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy, with assistance from Pino Orioli; an unexpurgated edition could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960. (A private edition was issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929.) The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words." Measuring 9 ¼ inches tall, the book has been rebound in beautiful deckled paper and ¾ red leather with raised bands, gilt rules, gilt fleur de lis, gilt title/author lettering on spine and deckled pastedowns and end papers. Structurally and appearance wise, it is in very good condition. With black and red text to title page, interior contents are in very good + condition, all pages present, all bright with no errant marks or names. Top corners of most pages show light creasing. Page ends show some age soiling largely to top and rough cut fore edges. Top page ends also show a short thin streak of soiling and a couple of extremely faded very small damp stains near crown. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory # (J7-24).

Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.

Lawrence, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover.. Privately Printed [by the Tipografia Giuntina], Florence, 1928.

Price: US$5000.00 + shipping

Description: First edition and signed limited edition of D.H. Lawrence's most ambitious, significant, and explicit work on sex and romance. Octavo, original publisher's mulberry paper-covered boards with white paper spine label, central Phoenix motif to the front panel. One of one thousand copies signed by D.H. Lawrence on the limitation page. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. 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 enigma and complexity of sex. The story of the physical and emotional relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex soon led to routine confiscation and destruction of any copies police and customs officials could find in both England and the United States. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books. Penguin won the case under the Obscene Publications Act 1959, and quickly sold 3 million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India, and Japan and was not available in the United States until Grove Press brought the matter to court in 1959, over 30 years after the publication of the first edition (Roberts, 42a).

Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.

D.H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Phoenix, Florence, 1928.

Price: US$9500.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Florence: Privately Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, 1928. 4to 2 p.l., 365, [1] pp., [1] leaf (blank). FIRST EDITION. ONE OF 1,000 COPIES, SIGNED BY LAWRENCE. Original publisher's mulberry-colored paper boards, edges untrimmed, note chips to spine, else quite lovely. Roberts A-42a. This is simply a good tpo very gppd copy of one of the major works of British literature in the 20th century. Although poetical in the general treatment of its subject, this book is a landmark in the history of the English novel in that it depicts for the first time in a studied and unabashedly direct way the concrete sexual experience, accompanied by the uninhibited language of real life. The book was first published in Italy because of obstacles erected by the censor in Britain, where it did not circulate in unexpurgated form until 1960.

Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.

LAWRENCE, D.H.. Lady Chatterley's Lover.. Florence Privately Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina directed by L. Franceschini, 1928.

Price: US$12100.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, limited issue, number 302 of 1000 copies, signed by the author; large 8vo (23 x 17 cm); one or two minor marginal spots, else unmarked internally; publisher's mulberry coloured boards, Lawrence's phoenix device to upper board in black, white paper title label to spine printed in black, untrimmed, slight chipping to corners and foot of spine, spine ends slightly bumped, minor split to lower front joint but sound; preserved in brown cloth chemise within brown morocco gilt slip-case. This novel shines as an example of Lawrence's finite skill in conveying the nature of relationships and his use of characters to communicate his personal philosophy. His depiction of love-making (seen as shocking at the time) and the intimacy and sense of touch derives from his wish to restore an emphasis on the body and balance it with what he perceived to be Western civilisation's over-emphasis on the mind. Lawrence's writing and opinions earned him many enemies, censorship and misrepresentation of his creativity, which was his reflection on the dehumanising effects of modernity and industrialisation, while also exploring issues such as emotional health, vitality, spontaneity and instinct. To avoid British censorship and certain prosecution, this edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover was published privately in Florence therefore not only is it the first edition but the first unexpurgated edition, which would not be seen in the U. K. until 1960. Even then, the publisher, Penguin stood trial under the Obscene Publications Act of 1959, in which one of the objections was to the frequent use of the word 'fuck'. The prosecution was ridiculed for being out of touch with changing social opinions, particularly when the Chief Prosecutor, Mervyn Griffith-Jones asked if it were the kind of book 'you would wish your wife or servants to read.' The jury was less prudish and acquitted Penguin on all charges.

Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom

Lawrence, D. H.. Lady Chatterley's Lover. Privately Printed, Florence, 1928.

Price: US$17500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, limited to 1,000 numbered copies signed by D. H. Lawrence, privately printed and available by subscription only. Bound in original brown paper-covered boards with upper board stamped with black phoenix design and paper title label to spine. Near Fine with rubbing to corners and light wear to covers, pages toned and lightly foxed heavier at prelims and terminals. A controversial novel for its time, this was banned in both England and America, and not published in the later until 1959. Housed in a custom morocco-backed chemise slipcase.

Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.