Adventures Of a Bookseller

London: Chatto & Windus, 1938. First edition. Hardcover. Back-strip faded; edges foxed; else very good copy. 8vo. Red cloth. Pp. (x), 330. Frontispiece portrait by Dame Laura Knight. Includes 8 pp. of photocopied expurgations in the author's hand. Also laid in is a 12-page Davis & Orioli booksellers' catalogue of first editions, undated but probably from the late… Read more about this item

Florence: Privately printed for subscribers by G. Orioli N.d. [1937]. 8vo.Signed Limited Edition. [viii], 434, [ii] pp. This is copy no. 247 of an edition limited to 300 copies and signed by the author. The Lungarno Series No. 12. Original orange paper wrappers with black lettering & decoration bound in. Sailcloth hardback binding with some marks to extremities. Some browning… Read more about this item

Florence: Privately printed for subscribers by G. Orioli, 1937. Hardcover. Near Fine. First edition, limited issue. Octavo. 434pp. Bound lacking the original wrappers in full burgundy morocco gilt, marbled endpapers. Pencil name, the cheap pages are quite toned, as usual, else near fine. Copy number 165 of 300 copies, Signed by the author.

Hard cover. Octavo. [viii] 329pp. Extensive scholarly pencil marginalia and notes. Dust jacket worn and torn with loss to the spine and a closed tear to the front. Now protected in an archival quality mylar sleeve. Giuseppe "Pino" Orioli (1884–1942) was a Florentine bookseller best known for privately publishing the unexpurgated first edition of Lady Chatterley's Lover and for his long… Read more about this item

Florence: Privately printed for subscribers by G. Orioli N.d. [1937]. 8vo. Signed limited edition. This is copy no. 164 of an edition limited to 300 copies and signed by the author. The Lungarno Series No. 12. Original orange paper wrappers with black lettering & decoration. Slight fading to spine with slight rubbing & wear to extremities. Some browning to edges.… Read more about this item

Chatto & Windus, London. 1938. First edition. Hardback.. Black and White frontis by Laura Knight.. Memoir of the Italian publisher who published the likes of D.H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas. His recollections include vignettes of his gay lifestyle and his meeting with Oscar Wilde, among others. Good (+), without Dust Jacket (top exterior gutter torn; interior is clean and… Read more about this item

London: Chatto & Windus, 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Octavo. Laura Knight frontispiece portrait. Original red cloth with gilt title in ornate black spine frame. The memoirs of an Italian bookseller who published the works of D.H. Lawrence and Norman Douglas, with vignettes on these writers found nowhere else. Orioli was also Gay, and much of this memoir deals with… Read more about this item

New York: Robert M. McBride. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. Small Hole on Spine. .

Robert M. McBride & Co, 1937-12-31. 2nd printing edition. hardcover. Good. 0x0x0.