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Lady Chatterlys Lover
by D. H. Lawrence
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fair to good/None
- Seller
-
Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
Lady Chatterly's Lover needs no introduction - it has famously been discussed and infamously banned. When Lawrence tried to publish it in the UK and the US, publishers declined. Through an introduction by Norman Douglas (South Wind -1917) Lawrence approached the Florentine bookseller and publisher Giuseppe "Pino" Orioli who published a limited edition of 1500. The volume presented here is numbered 120.
Lawrence presented his manuscript, unexpurgated, to Orioli who had it typeset by Italians who did not speak English. The result was unsteady with many typographical mistakes. Lawrence edited several copies before the final product was printed.
The book is in fair to good condition: the spine is shaken and the paper covers on the boards are faded; the corners are bumped in a minor way; paper is lightly toned but clean and bright - a perfectly readable copy. Between pages 23 and 32 there appear what seem to be splash marks at the bottom of the pages. There is a small book plate inside the front cover: "Ex libris C. Whitehead". The title on the spine is a glued-on label.
I will ship anywhere in the Continental US for the stated price - other locations to be determined by the buyer.
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
- E. Crocker
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- EEC46-59
- Title
- Lady Chatterlys Lover
- Author
- D. H. Lawrence
- Format/Binding
- Faded lavendar boards, faded greenish spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair to good
- Jacket Condition
- None
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First - Pirated
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Privately printed
- Place of Publication
- Florence
- Date Published
- 1928
- Pages
- 314.
- Size
- 8.75 x 6
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Banned, erotic,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
Terms of Sale
E. Crocker
10 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 10 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
E. Crocker
Biblio member since 2018
Santa Fe, New Mexico
About E. Crocker
Long time collector refining my stacks.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- 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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