Lady Chatterley's Lover
by D.H. Lawrence
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- 4/7
- Seller
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Belen, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
International Collectors Library, 1928. 1st. Hard cover. 4. Very good. 305 p. Text is clean and unmarked. Previous owner's bookplate on FFEP. Binding is tight, hinges are tight and spine is square. Corners are straight. Extremities have no wear. Boards are green cloth, the front with elaborate gilt design/devices. The top edge of the front has rubbed some of the gilt. The balance is bright and distinct. Back board has several small scratches along the bottom edge. The spine at the crown shows mild wear. The gilt is bright and distinct. Thus, bright, tight, clean and sound..
Synopsis
D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover holds the distinguished title of being one the most banned books in history. Infamous for its explicit descriptions of sex and other vulgarities, it was only published openly in the United Kingdom in 1960. The book focused on the illicit affair between an upper-class woman and her lower-class gamekeeper, and it was received with outrage and intrigue, resulting in numerous abridged versions being published throughout the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Because the first edition was so quickly banned from public consumption, there are many abridged and censored versions available, though few are as valuable as the original. The first printings were bound with brown boards with an insignia of a phoenix gracing its front cover. The phoenix has remained a potent symbol for the book, in large part because of the book's victory in the infamous British Obscenity Trial in 1960. D.H. Lawrence was a well-known English author who wrote many novels, short stories, and books of poetry. Not just an author, Lawrence was also a well-respected literary critic who wrote several essays regarding other famous writers, including Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Carobok
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0000914
- Title
- Lady Chatterley's Lover
- Author
- D.H. Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - 4
- Jacket Condition
- 7
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- International Collectors Library
- Date Published
- 1928
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- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Cloth
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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