Books

Florence: Privately Printed, 1928. First Edition. First edition, copy #416 of 1,000 numbered copies signed by D. H. Lawrence, privately printed and available by subscription only. [iv], 365 pp. Bound in publisher's purplish brown paper-covered boards with front board stamped with black phoenix design, paper title label to spine. Near Fine, a little professional repair to spine with joints discreetly reinforced, few small stains to boards, faint production crease to prelims. An attractive copy. Housed in a custom morocco-backed slipcase. A groundbreaking and controversial novel for its time, Lady Chatterley's Lover was banned in both England and America, and not published in the latter until 1959.

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.

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