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Lady Chatterley's Lover.
by Lawrence, D. H
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Florence: Privately Printed. Fine with no dust jacket. 1928. One of 1000 numbered copies. Hardcover. Florence: Privately Printed, 1928. #153 of 1,000 copies. Lg. 8vo (9 x 6 ¼ in). [4],365[3 blank]pp. Modern black morocco spine, mulberry boards, grey endpapers, fore-edges rough-trimmed. Fine condition, light spot on top edge of text block. Title and "privately printed" in red on title page, preceded by limitation leaf with hand-written number. Early pirated edition, rebound. Pagination same as Roberts A42a (see p.97ff also). ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 365 pages .
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
- Dale A. Sorenson
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 6698
- Title
- Lady Chatterley's Lover.
- Author
- Lawrence, D. H
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with no dust jacket
- Edition
- One of 1000 numbered copies
- Publisher
- Privately Printed
- Place of Publication
- Florence
- Date Published
- 1928
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- English Literature, British Literature, Fiction
Terms of Sale
Dale A. Sorenson
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About the Seller
Dale A. Sorenson
Biblio member since 2015
Silver Spring, Maryland
About Dale A. Sorenson
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- Fine
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- Rebound
- A book in which the pages have been bound into a covering replacing the original covering issued by the publisher.
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Jacket
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