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A very good plus hardcover copy. Spine has been rebacked with original label. Copy is very tight and clean. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION OF 1000 copies of which this is number 526. Two signatures in pencil appear on the front free endpaper; Sara Higgins and Joe Foster. Sara Higgins was the wife of Victor Higgins, a well known artist of the Taos Circle. Both were good friends of D. H. Lawrence as was Joe Foster who wrote a bibliography of Lawrence. All pages are very clean, no tears. Book comes with a handsome clamshell box.

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.