LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER by LAWRENCE, D.H - 1930

LONDON: STEPHENSON & LAHR, 1930 Privately Printed 1929.364pp. Stated 3rd Edition Limited to 500 copies this one being 157. The date on the title page states 1929 and the verso that the book was published in Florence. These are both spurious; the book was actually published by P.R.Stephenson & Charles Lahr in 1930 shortly after Lawrences death. Original pub. Brown limp cloth with Pheonix emble to top front board. VG (previous owner name in ink to ffep. Endpapers starting but mull sound. A little shelf wear to extremities of boards and book is slightly cocked. A couple of light marks to cloth on front board- not significant. Loosley laid in is a typewritten note signed by a previous owner which reads " I guarantee that this copy is one of the entirely unexpurgated edition printed abroad. Furthermore I have looked through the text and I am able to certify that it agrees in every respect with that of the first un-expurgated edition of Florence, a copy of which was sent to me from Florence at the time of Publication."