Grove Press, Inc., and Readers' Subscription, Inc. v. Robert K. Christenberry, Individually and as Postmaster of the City of New York

CLARK, Circuit Judge.

D. H. Lawrence completed the third manuscript version of his novel “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” in Italy in 1928, and it was then published in Florence for private distribution. It is this version which has now been published by the plaintiff Grove Press, Inc., in a sumptuous edition selling for $6.00, with a prefatory letter of commendation by Archibald MacLeish, poet, playwright, and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard University, and with an extensive Introduction and a concluding Bibliographical Note by Mark Sehorer, Professor of English Literature at…