1933 Lady Chatterley's Lover

Description

Publishers' Original Binding

The third impression of the Odyssey Press cheap edition of this famously controversial novel.

This edition was authorised by Frieda Lawrence and aimed to provide an unexpurgated version of the novel at a lower price, fulfilling Lawrence's desire to reach a wider audience. It followed the 'Paris Popular Edition' which initially published in 1939 with a print run of 3,000 copies. 

In the original wraps. To the rear cover is printed "Not to be Introduced into the British Empire or the U.S.A". 

The novel became notorious for its story of the affair between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, its explicit descriptions of sex and its use of then-unprintable profane words.