May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 293

Price Realized: $ 6,960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
LAWRENCE, D. H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. [4], 365, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher's printed mauve boards with paper spine label, spine ends and upper tips a bit rubbed, joints starting; signatures 3 through 7 improperly trimmed along bottom edge, resulting in leaves being thrust out and flattened under front cover; partially unopened, owner's neat book label on front pastedown; custom 1/4 gilt-lettered black morocco felt-lined clamshell box. Privately printed at Tipografia Giuntina. (Florence), 1928

Additional Details

first limited edition. number 748 of 1000 copies signed by lawrence. An unusually nice copy of Lawrence's controversial and originally banned masterpiece. Roberts A42a.