Nov 13, 2018 - Sale 2493

Sale 2493 - Lot 197

Price Realized: $ 2,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
LAWRENCE, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. 8vo, publisher's mulberry boards printed with the Lawrence phoenix on the front cover, cosmetic touch-ups to spine tips and corners, few small surface blemishes and light taps to board edges, printed paper spine label, fore- and bottom-edges uncut; contents clean; housed in morocco-edged slipcase. Privately printed at Tipografia Giuntina. (Florence), 1928

Additional Details

first edition, limited issue, number 753 of 1000 copies signed by lawrence."The novel appeared legally only in expurgated form until 1959 in the United States and 1960 in England, where it was the subject of a landmark obscenity trial" (Skillion, p. 388). Roberts A42a.