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First edition. Octavo. Mulberry papercovered boards with spine label, Lawrence's phoenix device in black on front, and bright and supple uncutpaper pages. Near fine with a bit of wear at a few corners, a chip at the crown expertly repaired and some tape shadows to the pastedowns and endpapers, as is sometime found with this title due to the unprinted dust jacket, which is lacking. One of 1000 numbered copies Signed by the author. A nice copy of a 20th Century classic. *Connolly 100.*.

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy and in 1929 in France. It portrays a young married woman, Constance Reid (Lady Chatterley), whose upper-class barrister husband has been paralyzed and rendered impotent. Her sexual frustration leads her into an affair with the gamekeeper, Oliver Mellors. The class difference between the couple highlights a major motif of the novel which is the unfair dominance of intellectuals over the working class. The book is a meditation on the necessity for a balance between the body and the mind and the destructive effects that industrialization and modernization can have on both.