Books

"Lady Chatterley's Lover" by D.H. Lawrence. 1928 first limited edition, number 401 of 1,000 copies signed by the author, crushed red half morocco by Bayntun-Riviere, spine lettered in gilt, t.e.g., others uncut, small dent to lower cover, else fine, [Roberts A42a], sm.4to, Privately Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina. ? Lawrence's most famous work, subject of the notorious 1960 obscenity trial.

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.