Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 140

Price Realized: $ 3,840
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 6,000 - $ 9,000
FINE SIGNED LIMITED EDITION LAWRENCE, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. [4], 365, [1] pages. 8vo, publisher's printed mauve boards with paper spine label, mild wear to boards; a few leaves trimmed close along bottom edges in early and late signatures, pages 305 and 306 partially crimped during printing with some lost letters along outer margin; partially unopened; preserved in custom chemise within 1/4 gilt-lettered green morocco clamshell box by Macdonald. Privately printed at Tipografia Giuntina. (Florence), 1928

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first limited edition, number 460 of 1000 copies signed by lawrence. An uncommonly well-preserved copy of Lawrence's controversial and originally banned masterpiece. Roberts A42a.