Lady Chatterley's Lover
Florence: Privately Printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, 1928. 8vo. Brown half morocco, pebbled cloth boards, top edges gilt, others untrimmed. A fine copy. Item #409940
First edition, number 670 of 1000 copies signed by the author. "Mr. Lawrence has moments of greatness, of course, but hours of something very different" – Virginia Woolf ('The Common Reader'). "Lawrence fully intended to shock and expected his book to be banned. The time-bomb only recently exploded when the issue of the trial ended censorship in England... Even without the eroticism it is a fascinating and well-planned novel rich in post-war observations and character portrait" (Connolly, The Modern Movement, 57). Roberts A42a.
Price: $5,000.00