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Florence, Italy: Privately Printed [by the Tipografia Giuntina], Florence, 1928. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Leather Binding. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - 7.75 to 9.75" tall. Very Good - This Edition Limited to One Thousand copies of which this is number 697. Signed by D.H. Lawrence on the limitation page which is opposite the tile page. Professional full leather binding in slipcase. Slipcase has brown cloth cover and is lined with a black felt. Volume is full leather binding with gilt title, author, date and decoration between 5 raised bands down the spine. Gilt line to the extremities of the front and rear boards, original brown cloth front cover with the phoenix has been used as the front paste down with brown end pages (a nice touch). The text block has rough cut pages. Condition - the slipcase has the slightest of wear at the corners, the volume has a very small rub on the spine above and below the title, original cloth cover has marks to the extremities where it has pasted to the…

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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