Lawrence, D.H.

8vo (9 x 6 1/4 in.; 225 x 160 mm). Original paper-covered boards with phoenix design to upper cover and printed paper spine label; minor spotting to deckle edges and one tiny spot of wear to spine head, but the corners unbumped and without the usual rubbing. In original plain wrapper showing a few chips to extremities.

Connolly 57; Roberts A42a

minor spotting to deckle edges and one tiny spot of wear to spine head, but the corners unbumped and without the usual rubbing. In original plain wrapper showing a few chips to extremities.
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First edition, limited to 1000 copies numbered and signed by Lawrence (this is 875). 
Privately printed by the author at a small commercial press in Florence and sold by subscription and word-of-mouth "....Lady Chatterly...is a puritanical tract on the art of love as Lawrence imagined it, devised to rouse the English from their torpor. Lawrence fully intended to shock and expected the book to be banned... " (Connolly)

A near fine copy.