Lady Chatterley's Lover. LAWRENCE (D. H.)

Including My Skirmish With Jolly Roger. Written Especially and Exclusively as an Introduction to this Popular Edition by D. H. Lawrence.

8vo. [190 x 142 x 2o mm]. [2]ff, viii, 365 pp. Bound in the original brown paper wrappers, a phoenix device and price 60 Frs on the front, white paper spine label printed in black, uncut edges. (50 mm tear at centre of upper joint, spine a little faded).
[Paris] Privately Printed [by E. W. Titus], 1929.

The frailty of the wrapper has caused the tear, but there is no loss to the paper. It is a good copy. With the ink signature of G. M. Spear at the head of the title and front wrapper (the latter almost invisible). Small red ink stamp of Dawson, 13 Rue Albany, Paris on final blank.

"The Author's Unabridged Popular Edition" and the first Paris edition. Lawrence wanted an inexpensive volume with a large printing which would reach the pirates' clientele. He first asked Sylvia Beach who refused but suggested Edward Titus, husband of the cosmetics magnate Helena Rubinstein.Titus agreed on the condition that the book must include new material and Lawrence obliged with "My Skirmish With Jolly Roger". Priced at 60 francs, well below the 300 or 400 francs pirated editions were fetching, it sold out very quickly.

Stock no. ebc8128