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(First edition). This edition is limited to one thousand copies. No.512. Signed by the author. (4),365pp. Florence- Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, directed by L.Franceschini. Original publisher's brown paper covered thick boards, black phoenix motif on the front board, white paper title label to spine. With original unprinted yellow dust jacket. Dust jacket torn, chipped, and damaged especially at the spine and rear flap. Brown paper of front board torn at hinges. Upper corner of front board sl.creased. Title page and its facing page (the page with author's signature) sl.stained at margin. Otherwise very good condition. With a preserved case. 23.2x17cm. [aj1488-171204].

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.