New York: Grove Press, 1962. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Reprint 1st Thus. Early printing of this reprint edition. Slight spine lean but boards rigid and tips pointed. Text block square and clean. The dust jacket is NOT price clipped with tape repair around spine and general overall wear. Fray and tiny closed tears along front and back bottom edges. Now looks shiny and in it's archival mylar cover..

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D.H. Lawrence's 1928 novel Lady Chatterley's Lover holds the distinguished title of being one the most banned books in history. Infamous for its explicit descriptions of sex and other vulgarities, it was only published openly in the United Kingdom in 1960. The book focused on the illicit affair between an upper-class woman and her lower-class gamekeeper, and it was received with outrage and intrigue, resulting in numerous abridged versions being published throughout the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Because the first edition was so quickly banned from public consumption, there are many abridged and censored versions available, though few are as valuable as the original. The first printings were bound with brown boards with an insignia of a phoenix gracing its front cover. The phoenix has remained a potent symbol for the book, in large part because of the book's victory in the infamous British Obscenity Trial in 1960. D.H. Lawrence was a well-known English author who wrote many novels, short stories, and books of poetry. Not just an author, Lawrence was also a well-respected literary critic who wrote several essays regarding other famous writers, including Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman.

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Bookseller: Winding Road Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 001304
Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Author: Lawrence, D. H.; Mark Schorer
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus
Edition: Reprint 1st Thus
ISBN 10: 0802141072
ISBN 13: 9780802141071
Publisher: Grove Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1962
Keywords: Literary Fiction

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