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`Lady Chatterley' first edition reveals clash of literary titans

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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20020607
Author:Matthew Beard

A PRIZED first edition of the D H Lawrence classic Lady Chatterley's Lover, featuring vicious remarks from his literary enemy H G Wells, has been put on sale for pounds 12,500.

The book, signed by the author, is one of a limited edition of the controversial novel Lawrence printed in Florence to escape British censorship and sold to subscribers.

Although a fierce critic of some of Lawrence's work, Wells, who wrote The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine, obtained one of the first run of 1,000 copies.

In a series of cartoons and notes on the opening pages, he portrayed its author as a ...

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