Item #242560 An Excerpt from Lady Chatterley's Lover. D. H. Lawrence.

Rare Rockwell Kent

An Excerpt from Lady Chatterley's Lover.

[n.p: February 1930].

Price: $950.00


About the item

Kent, Rockwell. Privately printed, limited numbered edition, no. 34 of 50 copies. Headpiece is an unpublished illustration by R.K. [Rockwell Kent]. 4 pp. on single folded sheet. 1 vols. 4to. Rare Rockwell Kent. Fine. Provenance: George Macy. Roberts, "Bibliography of D.H. Lawrence," (Third edition), Appendix I, B, # V. p. 754. Not in Zigrosser, ROCKWELL KENTIANA; Johnson, ROCKWELL KENT; McDonald, D.H. LAWRENCE.

Item #242560

Roberts, quoting Black Sun Books Catalogue 94, item 77, notes that Kent wrote a letter on March 10, 1930 to the EXCERPT's publisher, in which he complains that they had not had permission to use his drawing; but that he gives that permission anyway.