Harmondsworth. Middlesex.: Penguin, 1960. This story of the love between a gamekeeper and the wife of a crippled, intellectual is therefore one of 'phallic tenderness' and is never, in any sense of the word, pornographic. Unfortuantely, the critics and censors who bitterly decried the book concentrated their attacks on the language and ignored the tenderness. Slight shelf wear to cover. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Reprint. Softcover. Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Paperback.

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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: thelondonbookworm.com (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 015112
Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover
Author: D. H. Lawrence
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Good
Edition: Reprint
ISBN 10: 0140014845
ISBN 13: 9780140014846
Publisher: Penguin
Place of Publication: Harmondsworth. Middlesex.
Date Published: 1960
Keywords: Fiction/Gamekeeper/Lady/Love SS7-3
Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall

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Reprint: Any printing of a book which follows the original edition. By definition, a reprint is not a first edition.
Shelf Wear: Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
12mo: A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...