TITLE: Lady Chatterley's Lover
AUTHOR: D H Lawrence
PUBLISHER: Privately printed by the Tipografia Giuntina
PLACE: Florence
YEAR: 1928
EDITION: First
NUMBERED: 117/1000
NO.OF PAGES: 4 + 365, [3 blank] pages
BINDING: Original publisher's mulberry paper-covered boards, with Lawrence's phoenix motif stamped in black on the front board, printed paper label on spine, leaves untrimmed.
SIZE:
Height: 23 cm
Width: 17.2 cm
Depth: 3 cm

SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR ON THE COLOPHON

Lawrence commissioned the Tipografia Guintina in Florence, under the direction of L Franceschini, to print "Lady Chatterley's Lover' in the spring of 1928 at his own expense after it was rejected by several English publishers. Order forms were sent to friends in America and Europe who acted as agents in distributing copies. By December 1928, he had sold nearly all thousand copies, despite the fact that the novel was about to be suppressed in London and banned from the United States. (Roberts A42a).


CONDITION:
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