Lady Chatterley's Lover. by LAWRENCE, D. H - 1929

no place [London]: Privately Printed [Lahr & Stephensen] 1929 [1930]. Fine. 1929. Third Edition, so stated. Hardcover. Limitation on verso of half-title states 135 of 500 copies. Copyright page imprint: Florence - Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, directed by L. Franceshini. 364 pps., frontispiece photograph of Jo Davidson's clay bust of Lawrence; original brick cloth over limp boards with the Lawrence phoenix emblem stamped in black on lower back corner rather than on two varient of stamps on the front [upper & lower] that we have seen cited. Trifle shelf wear at foot of spine. A clean, crisp copy of a scarce edition. Dated 1929, and bearing the same imprint as the genuine 1928 First Edition, but these devices were used to obscure the fact that it was published by bookseller Charles Lahr, Australian writer, publisher P. R. Stephenson, and printed by W. Graves at London in the middle of 1930, thereby protecting the printer and publishers from prosecution. Lawrence authorized this publication in a letter to Lahr, April 1929. It was published posthumously. .