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1st Edition 1928. Privately Printed Florence, Limited to 1000 copies. This copy signed by Lawrence and numbered 434. Half title. Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina. frontispiece photograph of Jo Davidson's clay bust of Lawrence; Beautifully rebound in full calf leather with spine detailing and the Lawrence Phoenix blind stamped to the front and rear board. Book is very good++ and bright. . Contents quite good. Pages slightly marked and age toned. A few roughly opened un-cut pages. Nice tight binding. Includes a purpose made cloth clamshell box. More images can be taken upon request. Ref14731.

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.