Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D. H. Lawrence
VG Book Club

For sale: a Rare and Exceptional Book Club edition, early printing hardcover copy of Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence with no dust jacket. Undated Nelson Doubleday with statement on copyright page of third manuscript version first published in 1928 and no subsequent dates or publisher’s. 28N gutter code which indicates a July 1972 print date.

The book is in Very Good condition with clean, bright boards, and strong title ink on a straight spine and lightly faded gilt on front, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, rolled spine ends, mild edge wear, and lightly rubbed corners. The interior of the book is in Very Good condition with an erased price on the first free end paper. No other marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership inside. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and bright.

No dust jacket.

Inspired by the long-standing affair between Frieda, Lawrence’s German wife, and an Italian peasant who eventually became her third husband, Lady Chatterley’s Lover is the story of Constance Chatterley, who, while trapped in an unhappy marriage to an aristocratic mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, has an affair with Mellors, the gamekeeper.