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Auction archive: Lot number 339

D.H. Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1928, first edition, number 205 of 1000 copies signed by the author

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,003 - US$1,505
Price realised:
n. a.
Auction archive: Lot number 339

D.H. Lawrence | Lady Chatterley's Lover, 1928, first edition, number 205 of 1000 copies signed by the author

Estimate
£800 - £1,200
ca. US$1,003 - US$1,505
Price realised:
n. a.
Beschreibung:

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
D.H. Lawrence 
Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence: privately printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, 1928
FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 205 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, original mulberry-coloured paper boards, black Phoenix design on upper cover, modern paper label to spine, leaves uncut, some light foxing, rebacked in cloth, extremities slightly rubbed
Remarkably, given its subsequent central importance in the history of publishing and censorship, Lady Chatterley's Lover was written in the astonishing time of just five weeks, in "one of Lawrence's last great bursts of creative energy... With the help of the Florentine bookseller Pino Orioli, the handsome volume was printed in and distributed from Florence, and made Lawrence more money than he had ever imagined" (John Worthen, ODNB).
LITERATURE:Connolly 57; Roberts A42a

Auction archive: Lot number 339
Auction:
Datum:
12 Dec 2023
Auction house:
Sotheby's
34-35 New Bond St.
London, W1A 2AA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7293 5000
+44 (0)20 7293 5989
Beschreibung:

From the Library of Clayre and Jay Michael Haft
D.H. Lawrence 
Lady Chatterley's Lover. Florence: privately printed by the Tipografia Giuntina, 1928
FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 205 OF 1000 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 8vo, original mulberry-coloured paper boards, black Phoenix design on upper cover, modern paper label to spine, leaves uncut, some light foxing, rebacked in cloth, extremities slightly rubbed
Remarkably, given its subsequent central importance in the history of publishing and censorship, Lady Chatterley's Lover was written in the astonishing time of just five weeks, in "one of Lawrence's last great bursts of creative energy... With the help of the Florentine bookseller Pino Orioli, the handsome volume was printed in and distributed from Florence, and made Lawrence more money than he had ever imagined" (John Worthen, ODNB).
LITERATURE:Connolly 57; Roberts A42a

Auction archive: Lot number 339
Auction:
Datum:
12 Dec 2023
Auction house:
Sotheby's
34-35 New Bond St.
London, W1A 2AA
United Kingdom
+44 (0)20 7293 5000
+44 (0)20 7293 5989
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