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Plain brown limp cloth covers. Printed by Tipografia Giuntina, Florence. Eagle motif on top edge of front cover, blank spine. Third edition stated limited to 500 copies and the No. section is left blank. There is some moderate foxing to the end papers and occasionally throughout; there is a loss of some of the dye from the back cover and a little splitting and fraying along the cover's back hinge but, on the whole this is an really decent copy of this highly sought after edition. It feels quite decadent just holding it!.

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.