LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley's Lover including My Skirmish with Jolly Roger . Author's unabridged popular edition. [Paris]: privately printed, 1929. 8°, uncut, original paper wrappers (loss to lower left corner of upper cover, approx 50 x 110mm); later morocco-backed chemise and slipcase. The 'Paris Popular Edition', inscribed on the title to [Lawrence's publisher] Edward W. Titus 'this first copy of our Lady of Paris', Forte dei Marmi, 26 June 1929. Connolly 57; Roberts A42(c).
LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley's Lover including My Skirmish with Jolly Roger . Author's unabridged popular edition. [Paris]: privately printed, 1929. 8°, uncut, original paper wrappers (loss to lower left corner of upper cover, approx 50 x 110mm); later morocco-backed chemise and slipcase. The 'Paris Popular Edition', inscribed on the title to [Lawrence's publisher] Edward W. Titus 'this first copy of our Lady of Paris', Forte dei Marmi, 26 June 1929. Connolly 57; Roberts A42(c). [ With ] a typed letter signed ('D.H. Lawrence') to Titus, Hotel de Versailles, 60 Boulevard Montparnasse, Paris, 5 April 1929, laying out the contractual terms for the edition, of 3000 copies, at a cost price of no more than 12 francs, the costs to be divided between author and publisher: 'The retail price of the book is to be sixty francs (60 frs) a copy, this price to be printed on the cover', a single autograph emendation signed with initials, one page, 4to (minor soiling), in a slipcase. [ And :] the publisher's printed prospectus announcing the edition: 'Since the issue of the one thousand copies of the first privately printed edition of Mr D. H. Lawrence's masterpiece in poetic prose, Lady Chatterley's Lover , four pirated reprints of the novel have emerged from obscure quarters. These products of larceny and plunder have been and are still selling at prices higher than the original author's issue ... '. Provenance : Roger Rechler -- his sale, Christie's New York, 11 October 2002, lot 191; Annette Campbell-White -- her sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 2007, lot 119. (2)
LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley's Lover including My Skirmish with Jolly Roger . Author's unabridged popular edition. [Paris]: privately printed, 1929. 8°, uncut, original paper wrappers (loss to lower left corner of upper cover, approx 50 x 110mm); later morocco-backed chemise and slipcase. The 'Paris Popular Edition', inscribed on the title to [Lawrence's publisher] Edward W. Titus 'this first copy of our Lady of Paris', Forte dei Marmi, 26 June 1929. Connolly 57; Roberts A42(c).
LAWRENCE, David Herbert (1885-1930). Lady Chatterley's Lover including My Skirmish with Jolly Roger . Author's unabridged popular edition. [Paris]: privately printed, 1929. 8°, uncut, original paper wrappers (loss to lower left corner of upper cover, approx 50 x 110mm); later morocco-backed chemise and slipcase. The 'Paris Popular Edition', inscribed on the title to [Lawrence's publisher] Edward W. Titus 'this first copy of our Lady of Paris', Forte dei Marmi, 26 June 1929. Connolly 57; Roberts A42(c). [ With ] a typed letter signed ('D.H. Lawrence') to Titus, Hotel de Versailles, 60 Boulevard Montparnasse, Paris, 5 April 1929, laying out the contractual terms for the edition, of 3000 copies, at a cost price of no more than 12 francs, the costs to be divided between author and publisher: 'The retail price of the book is to be sixty francs (60 frs) a copy, this price to be printed on the cover', a single autograph emendation signed with initials, one page, 4to (minor soiling), in a slipcase. [ And :] the publisher's printed prospectus announcing the edition: 'Since the issue of the one thousand copies of the first privately printed edition of Mr D. H. Lawrence's masterpiece in poetic prose, Lady Chatterley's Lover , four pirated reprints of the novel have emerged from obscure quarters. These products of larceny and plunder have been and are still selling at prices higher than the original author's issue ... '. Provenance : Roger Rechler -- his sale, Christie's New York, 11 October 2002, lot 191; Annette Campbell-White -- her sale, Sotheby's, 7 June 2007, lot 119. (2)
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