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LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence: Privately Printed, 1928.
8° (230 x 160mm). (Light spotting to edges.) Original boards stamped in black, with printed paper spine label, original plain cream dust jacket; later brown cloth clamshell case (dust-jacket with small chips at the corners and spine ends, light spotting and light browning).
FIRST EDITION. AN EXCELLENT, UNOPENED COPY IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET OF LAWRENCE'S ONCE NOTORIOUS NOVEL. NUMBER 894 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY LAWRENCE. The publication and critical reception of this novel represent the greatest cause célèbre of 20th-century literature in English. Lawrence remarked in a letter to publisher Harold Mason: 'the novel is so "shocking" from the smut-hunting point of view, that no publisher would even dare have the MS in his office. From my point of view, it is an assertion of sound truth and a healthy reaction against all this decay and sneaking perversity which fills most of the books today. I consider my novel pure in the best sense -- and warm-hearted. But the Puritan will want to smite me down'. Lawrence was prepared, if necessary, to expurgate his book for public distribution, so long as he could have this, his own private printing of the novel in its original form. The various typographical errors in this edition resulted from none of the type-setters in Florence speaking English, a situation which amused Lawrence and which he saw as evidence that 'ignorance is bliss'. Boulton, The Selected Letters of D.H. Lawrence, p.374; Gertzman, A Descriptive Bibliography of Lady Chatterley's Lover, pp.1-6; Roberts A42a.
8° (230 x 160mm). (Light spotting to edges.) Original boards stamped in black, with printed paper spine label, original plain cream dust jacket; later brown cloth clamshell case (dust-jacket with small chips at the corners and spine ends, light spotting and light browning).
FIRST EDITION. AN EXCELLENT, UNOPENED COPY IN THE RARE DUST-JACKET OF LAWRENCE'S ONCE NOTORIOUS NOVEL. NUMBER 894 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY LAWRENCE. The publication and critical reception of this novel represent the greatest cause célèbre of 20th-century literature in English. Lawrence remarked in a letter to publisher Harold Mason: 'the novel is so "shocking" from the smut-hunting point of view, that no publisher would even dare have the MS in his office. From my point of view, it is an assertion of sound truth and a healthy reaction against all this decay and sneaking perversity which fills most of the books today. I consider my novel pure in the best sense -- and warm-hearted. But the Puritan will want to smite me down'. Lawrence was prepared, if necessary, to expurgate his book for public distribution, so long as he could have this, his own private printing of the novel in its original form. The various typographical errors in this edition resulted from none of the type-setters in Florence speaking English, a situation which amused Lawrence and which he saw as evidence that 'ignorance is bliss'. Boulton, The Selected Letters of D.H. Lawrence, p.374; Gertzman, A Descriptive Bibliography of Lady Chatterley's Lover, pp.1-6; Roberts A42a.
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