181 - Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, "second edition" [but first edition, second issue], one of 200 copies signed by the author, light spotting to first few pages and rear endpapers, original printed wrappers, edges frayed and nicked, some with neat tissue repairs verso, spine creased, head chipped, preserved in custom-made morocco-backed box, [Roberts A42b.], 4to, Florence, privately printed, 1928.

Lawrence (D.H.) Lady Chatterley's Lover, "second edition" [but first edition, second issue], one of 200 copies signed by the author, light spotting to first few pages and rear endpapers, original printed wrappers, edges frayed and nicked, some with neat tissue repairs verso, spine creased, head chipped, preserved in custom-made morocco-backed box, [Roberts A42b.], 4to, Florence, privately printed, 1928. *** The rare second issue, also referred to as the "cheap paper issue". The first printing of Lady Chatterley's Lover was between April and June 1928 in a run of 1000 numbered and signed copies. As the year progressed, police raids and customs interceptions became more frequent for the banned book, and towards the end of the year, with the first printing nearly sold out and Lawrence keen to undercut the increasing numbers of piracies, he brought out this small publication of 200 copies on common paper printed from the type used earlier that year. It was all but sold out by the end of December.