LAWRENCE, D[avid]. H[erbert].
Lady Chatterley's Lover.
[Florence:] Privately printed, 1928.
8vo, pp. [iv], 368. Original mulberry-colored boards with spine-label. Phoenix bookplate to front pastedown. Pages mostly uncut. Copy 37 of 1,000 numbered & signed by Lawrence. Minute chips only to one edge of dust-jacket. A fine copy in a nearly fine dust-jacket.
First Edition, a superlative copy. Copy 37 of 1,000 numbered & signed by Lawrence. Original mulberry-colored boards with spine-label. Exceedingly fine copy, the pages mostly uncut, in a fine intact example of the original unprinted dust-jacket. Roberts A42a. A spectacular copy of one of the most notorious books of literature of the 20th century.
£14000.00
US$27830.54*
* Given as a guide only. Based on an exchange rate of £1 = US$1.987896 for the day 5 July 2008 but liable to fluctuate.
5 July 2008