Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
D.H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterly's Lover. Privately Printed January 1928, 1928.
Price: US$49.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: somewhat worn hardcover copy, 'privately printed Florence 1928' on title page, no further dates listed. binding is a bit shaky, though unbroken and intact. there is a plain paper wrap with paper label glued to front and spine, likely not original. plain blue hardcovers are a bit scuffed. there is no writing on the covers spine or front. pages are a bit discolored with age.
Seller: Magus Books Seattle, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
D.H. Lawrence. Lady Chatterly's Lover. Privately Printed, 1928.
Price: US$99.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Inspired by the long-standing affair between D. H. Lawrence's German wife and an Italian peasant, Lady Chatterley's Lover follows the intense passions of Constance Chatterley. Trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocrat whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, Constance enters into a liaison with the gamekeeper, Mellors. Originally banned in multiple countries, Lady Chatterley's Lover is an unapologetic portrayal of pleasure recognized as Lawrence's "best novel" (Anaï Nin) and "one of the most important works of fiction of the century" (Archibald MacLeish). Privately printed in Florence in 1928. Small teard on edges of cover, Slightly loose binding. Small stains on title page
Seller: Bergen Book Studio, Hillsdale, NJ, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. Lady Chatterly's Lover. Privately printed, Florence, Italy, 1928.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Privately printed, green soft covering European style. Illustrated with mythological steel engravings. no foxing, only edges show any yellowing. Ragged page edges. Spine is strong and firm.
Seller: Friends of SMPL Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D.H.. Lady Chatterly's Lover. Nelson, Doubleday Inc., 1928.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: A perfectly kept 3rd printing of the 1928 version printed privately in Florence,Italy. Pages clear, clean and white. Private collector's not an ex-library. No tears, no markings or inscriptions. Pages mildly foxed on bottom thatin no way affect the pages.
Seller: Bell's Books, Mason, TX, U.S.A.
Lawrence, D. H.. LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER. Privately Printed Florence, 1928.
Price: US$232.00 + shipping
Description: LADY CHATTERLY'S LOVER, Privately Printed, Florence, 1928, spine lightened, else just about fine in plain brown blank dust-wrapper with a small chip missing from the base of the dust-wrapper spine. Title page printed in red and black. Apparently among the early pirated editions.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$236.60 + shipping
Description: Fine copy, the protective glassine wrapper being just a little creased. Preserved in an oatmeal cloth folder and slipcase Reprinted from the Sunday Dispatch, apparently without authority, for presentation at Christmas. It is likely that Mitchell Kennerly was responsible for its production.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Lawrence, D.H.. Lady Chatterly's Lover. Privately Printed, 1928.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, 8 7/8 x 6 1/4 in. (225 x 158 mm); half title + Limitation page + title + 365 pp. 3/4 red crushed morocco binding with marbled boards and matching endpapers; 5 raised bands, gilt title and date, spine and top of boards sunned, t.e.g., rest uncut. First published privately in 1928, in Italy, and in France in 1929, Lady Chatterly's Lover 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 four-letter words. 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, which won the case and quickly sold three million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India and Japan. Several pirated copies of the book were issued and their editorial history is difficult to trace. Edward D. McDonald, in his Bibliography of the Writings of D. H. Lawrence, 1925-1930. A bibliographical Supplement (Philadelphia, The Centaur Book Shop, 1931) lists only the Florentine edition limited to 1000 copies and printed privately by Lawrence [McDonald 38] and the "Paris Popular Edition," with a Lawrence preface [McDonald 42] and had very stern words for the pirated editions that proliferated as soon as the book was published in Florence. "Book pirates are just about as stupid as they are shady. Chicanery. canaille. scum of the book trade". Our copy is one of these pirated editions and has a limitation page that states there are 1500 copies privately printed and this is copy 221, ink stamped. The original private edition of the book, printed in Florence only counted 1000 copies and they were numbered in pen and signed by the author. But the text and pagination is the same as the Florentine version.
Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.