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Large octavo, black moir�-patterned cloth with paper-spine label printed in red and black; with a touch of rubbing. Pirated limited edition, published shortly after the first edition of Lawrence's controversial novel, with various typographical errors reproduced from the original 1928 Tipografia Giuntina edition. Numbered in red and black, "No. 765," on the front free endpaper. Roberts A42. ---- From the library of Milton C. Rose, with the patron of the arts and prominent attorney's bookplate on the front pastedown. Rose (1904-2002), a onetime law partner of Richard Nixon and John N. Mitchell in the firm Nixon Mudge Rose Alexander & Mitchell, was instrumental in bringing Nixon into the firm in 1963 after he had lost the election for governor of California. Rose s collection of art was donated to the Cleveland Art Institute and to the Williams College Art Museum, which has a room bearing his name. A classic work with a most distinguished provenance.

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.