Lady Chatterley's lover by Lawrence, D. H - 1928

Florence: privately printed, 1928. 8vo, pp. [2], 365; title page printed in red and black; original black moiré-patterned cloth, paper label on spine printed in red and black; crimson endpapers, edges uncut; top of spine cracked, bottom of spine rubbed, label with small chip out but not affecting any letterpress. Signed in blue ink, "D. H. Lawrence" on title page. The book is likely one of many contemporary piracies, and the signature therefore likely a forgery. See Roberts A42 for a discussion about the piracies, and the "unscrupulous booksellers" who forged the signatures.