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First edition and signed limited edition of D.H. Lawrence's most ambitious, significant, and explicit work on sex and romance. Octavo, original publisher's mulberry paper-covered boards with white paper spine label, central Phoenix motif to the front panel. One of one thousand copies signed by D.H. Lawrence on the limitation page. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. Available by subscription only in this private Florence printing and banned in England and America for obscenity, Lady Chatterley's Lover was Lawrence's most ambitious attempt to present his vision of the enigma and complexity of sex. The story of the physical and emotional relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex soon led to routine confiscation and destruction of any copies police and customs officials could find in both England and the United States. An unexpurgated edition was not published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960, when it was the subject of a watershed obscenity trial against the publisher Penguin Books. Penguin won the case under the Obscene Publications Act 1959, and quickly sold 3 million copies. The book was also banned for obscenity in the United States, Canada, Australia, India, and Japan and was not available in the United States until Grove Press brought the matter to court in 1959, over 30 years after the publication of the first edition (Roberts, 42a).

This is a rebound limited edition copy, #37 of 1000 copies. Signed by Lawrence to limitation page. Professionally rebound in full leather with gilt. Slight signs of handling to pages. Uncut edges. A tight, square unmarked copy. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; Signed by Author

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.

Full Description: LAWRENCE, D.H. Lady Chatterley's Lover. [Florence]: Privately Printed [by the Tipografia Giuntina], 1928. First edition. Limited to 1,000 numbered copies, signed by the author. This being number 773. Octavo (9 x 6 1/4 inches; 227 x 157 mm). [4], 365, [3, blank] pp. Original brown paper boards with printed paper spine label. Front cover printed in black with the Lawrence phoenix. Unopened. A fine copy. Housed in a quarter brown morocco clamshell case . Available by subscription only in this private Florence printing and banned in England and America for obscenity, Lady Chatterley's Lover was Lawrence's most ambitious attempt to present his vision of the mystery and wonder of sex. Lawrence described the book as "beautiful and tender and frail as the naked self," but in England and the United States police and customs officials routinely confiscated and destroyed any copies they could find and prosecuted the booksellers. Lady Chatterley's Lover was not available in the U.S. until Grove Press brought the matter to court in 1959, over 30 years after the publication of the first edition. Roberts A42a. HBS 69119. $12,500.

First edition, first impression, number 596 of 1,000 copies signed and numbered by the author, here retaining the scarce plain paper dust jacket, well-preserved in a contemporary glassine wrapper possibly issued by the publisher. This copy is offered together with an unpublished autograph postcard from the author to his mother-in-law, Anna Freiin von Richthofen (1879-1930). The postcard - located and dated "Santa Fe. 18 Okt", and franked the same day - was sent by Lawrence in 1924 to "Frau Baronin von Richthofen", the title shared by Lawrence's wife Frieda, her sister Else, and their mother Anna, with whom Lawrence maintained a close correspondence. Written in German, it reads: "reisen morgen nach El Paso - ich schiche dir heute Photographien von Ranch" ["Travelling tomorrow to El Paso - I am sending you the Ranch photographs today"]. The "Ranch" refers to Lawrence's New Mexico residence, where he lived between 1922 and 1924, and where he was interred after his death. Lawrence's novel was printed in Florence by a small avant-garde publisher to circumvent British obscenity laws. "Lady Chatterley's Lover - written in the astonishing time of just five weeks, in one of Lawrence's last great bursts of creative energy - also sustained him, as he overcame the difficulties lying in the way of an individual publishing and distributing his own book. With the help of the Florentine bookseller Pino Orioli, the handsome volume was printed in and distributed from Florence, and made Lawrence more money than he had ever imagined" (ODNB). Roberts & Poplawski A42a (not mentioning the existence of paper or glassine jackets). Octavo. Original pinkish-brown paper-covered boards, paper spine label, Lawrence's phoenix device blocked in black on front cover, edges untrimmed. With original plain cream dust jacket and contemporary glassine. Housed in a custom black half morocco solander box. Minute splits to spine ends, spot of foxing to label, contents crisp, fresh, and largely unopened; hint of rubbing and toning to jacket, a few faint damp stains to spine, extremities lightly chipped with some very minor loss to spine: a near-fine copy in near-fine dust jacket.