Author: LAWRENCE, D. H.
Title: Lady Chatterley's Lover, (in Original Unexpurgated Edition) (Modern Library Spine 17)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, 1993. Hardcover. ISBN: 0679600655. An ex-library recent Modern Library edition of the unexpurgated text of D. H. Lawrence's tender love story, in the third manuscript edition first published by Guiseppe Orioli of Florence in 1928. Due to its candid treatment of the relations between the characters, this work was deemed to be too controversial for some. With prefatory letter by Archibald MacLeish to Grove Press publisher Barney Rosset, an introduction by Mark Schorer, and the text of the Judge Bryan decision in the obscenity case. --- A former library book. In Toledano spine 17 / grey cloth / blindstamped torchbearer logo to cover / gilt-stamped spine titling / Bernhard endpapers / jacket style r with author black and white photographic portrait on cover & spine. --- A Good-only copy, with plenty of evidence of former ownership by the library, including stickers, rubberstampings, etc. Unclipped jacket in mylar protector which has been taped to the book in typical library fashion.; Ex-Library; 12mo - 7 to 7-1/2 in. tall; liii, 491 pages. Good in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0679600655 >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions