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1089148 - Parcels of paper-backed copies of Lady Chatterley's Lover, the controversial novel by D. H. Lawrence, stacked from floor to ceiling in the warehouse of Penguin Books at Harmondsworth (Middlesex) factory. The book is already being distributed all over the country following its vindication in a test case trial which ended after an Old Bailey jury had decided that the Penguin Book Company Ltd were not guilty of pulishing an obscene article - an unexpurgated version of the novel. This verdict means that Lady Chatterley's Lover can be published in Britain just as D. H. Lawrence wrote it. Sir Allen Lane, Chairman of Penguin Books, said that 200,000 copies had been printed so far and that the public would probably be able to buy the book in a week's time. - 2nd November 1960
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