Lot 395 , Lawrence, D.H. - Lady Chatterley's Lover. Including My Skirmish with the Jolly Roger. Written especially and exclusively as an introduction to this popular edition. The Author's Unabridged Popular Edition. original grey

° Lawrence, D.H. - Lady Chatterley's Lover. Including My Skirmish with the Jolly Roger. Written especially and exclusively as an introduction to this popular edition. The Author's Unabridged Popular Edition. original grey wrappers with printed spine label. privately printed, 1930; Lawrence, D.H. - Lady Chatterley's Lover. Third edition, limited to 500 copies. portrait frontis.; original cloth with black phoenix on upper cover. privately printed, 1929 (? but ca. 1930); Lawrence, D.H. The Man Who Died. With illustrations drawn and engraved on the wood by John Farleigh.....10 illus. (printed in red and black); publisher's cloth backed marbled boards and d/wrapper, 4to. 1935; together with some others by this author, Auden, W.H. & Isherwood, Christopher - The Ascent of F6: a tragedy in two acts. 1st edition. near contemp. rebind in morocco backed patterned boards, blind lettered on spine (by Carl Schultze, of Dusseldorf). 1936; Auden, W.H. & Isherwood, Christopher - The Dog beneath the Skin or Where is Francis? A play in the three acts. 1st edition. (bound uniformly with previous item). 1935; sold with: Macneice, Louis - Poems, 1st edition. (bound as previous). 1935 (3)
£80-120

Condition:
Chatterley 1 - wrappers lt. frayed 3/4 places, dated 1930 (1929 in Roberts A42c, with printing on upper wrapper and variant paper label) (3), viii, 365pp. Chatterley 2 - e/ps. browned and marked, v.sl. wear foot of spine. (4), 364pp. (incl. half title); Roberts p.368 - noting Davidson's bust of the author (frontis.) was not finished until March 1930; Man Who Died - 1st Illus. Edtn. (Roberts A50d), spotting on e/ps., title and elsewhere; Others - Apocalypse (1st ed., 1932) gilt cloth (ex. Books Lib., label on cover is sole mark, spine faded, inner hinge cracked); Murry's Son of Woman (1st ed., 1931) good copy; Pornography and Obscenity (1st ed.,1929) printed wrapps.; Virgin and the Gipsy (1st ed.,1930) spine rubbed, lt. browning half and title pages; Ship of Death (3rd imp.,1942) printed wrapps. and d/w. Ascent - spine and lettering faded, boards just slightly marked, trifle wear head / tail spine, few single spots intermittently inside. 123pp. (incl. half title), old neat ownership front blank; Dog - spine faded as above, a trifle wear head / tail, 180pp. (incl. half title), ownership as before: Poems - bds. sl. marked, spine as above, boards slightly marked; 66pp. (incl. half title), same ownership.

Sold for £70