Lawrence, D. H. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Including My Skirmish with Jolly Roger. [Paris]: Privately Printed [E.W. Titus, Lecram Press], 1929. The Author's Unabridged Popular Edition. 7 5/8" X 5 3/4". viii, 365pp. Recently rebound in unique full crimson morocco binding, with suggestive decorations stamped in gilt to boards, yonic to upper board and rectal to lower board. Blue title onlays to spine, lettered, ruled, and decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Brown topstain, with light wear to top edge of text block. Small closed tear to original front flyleaf and shallow open tear to margin of pages I through IV. Pages uniformly age-yellowed and lightly toned, else fine. This Paris popular edition is the third authorized edition (the first being the 1928 Florence edition printed for the author by the Orioli Press in a 1,000 print run, followed by another privately printed 200 print run mentioned in the introduction), and includes a new introduction by the author, detailing his struggle with the proliferating pirated editions of this controversial and oft-censored novel. When sales of the wildly profitable pirated editions were capped by booksellers and readers who felt morally bound to abstain, publishers sought an authorized, sanitized version from the author, and he considered, but chose instead to release this unexpurgated "little cheap French edition": "English publishers urge me to make an expurgated edition, promising me large returns...and insisting that I should show the public that here is a fine novel, apart from all 'purple' and all 'words.' So I begin to be tempted and start in to expurgate. But impossible! I might as well try to clip my own nose into shape with scissors. The book bleeds. And in spite of all antagonism, I put forth this novel as an honest, healthy book, necessary for us to-day. The words that shock so much at first don't shock at all after a while. Is this because the mind is depraved by habit? Not a bit. It is that the words merely shocked the eye, they never shocked the mind at all. People without minds may go on being shocked, but they don't matter. People with minds realize that they aren't shocked, and never really were..." (My Skirmish with Jolly Roger). This Paris popular edition represents all the author's beleaguered integrity toward his work and is pleasingly bound by a binder with a good and sympathetic sense of humor. Near fine. Leather bound.

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