D.H. Lawrence "Lady Chatterly's Lover" Leather Bound Collector's Edition, Limited Edition [Sealed]

Norwalk, CT. Easton Press. 2005. D. H. Lawrence "Lady Chatterley's Lover". With an introduction by Dudley Fitts. Limited Edition. Illustrations by Marian Parry. Luxuriously bound in full genuine leather with 22kt gold accents. Very Fine. Sealed. This edition is now OUT OF PRINT.

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• 100 Greatest Books Ever Written.
• Introduction by Jill Franks
• Illustrated by Richard Miller

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published in 1928. The first edition was printed privately in Florence, Italy, with assistance from Pino Orioli; an unexpurgated edition could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960. (A private edition was issued by Inky Stephensen's Mandrake Press in 1929.) The book soon became notorious for its story of the physical (and emotional) relationship between a working class man and an upper class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex, and its use of then-unprintable words.

The story is said to have originated from events in Lawrence's own unhappy domestic life, and he took inspiration for the settings of the book from Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, where he grew up. According to some critics, the fling of Lady Ottoline Morrell with "Tiger", a young stonemason who came to carve plinths for her garden statues, also influenced the story. Lawrence at one time considered calling the novel Tenderness and made significant alterations to the text and story in the process of its composition. It has been published in three versions.