ID: 530
Lady Chatterley's Lover.
LAWRENCE, D.H.

Category: First Edition

Place/Publisher/Date:
Privately Printed, Imprimee en Allemagne. 1928.

Description: First? Pirated Edition; 8vo; number 1656 of 1500 copies (sic), original mulberry colour paper boards, paper label on spine, pages uncut. A photographic facsimile of the true first edition, simply lacking Lawrences signature and the phoenix on the upper cover. Lawrence himself was impressed with the quality of this piracy, generally assumed to be the first of many pirated editions. Gertzman suggests there may be an earlier New York piracy but the nature of the controversy and secrecy surrounding the printing of the book makes it hard to be conclusive. Fine, with slight fading to the spine and a very small book label on the rear pastedown.

Price £775.00