Adventures of a Bookseller. by Orioli, G

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 his relations with gays such as Oscar Wilde. A clean, bright, unmarked copy in a thick archival Mylar jacket. Scarce.

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

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 association with Norman Douglas.

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 1930s. Pino Orioli (1884-1942) was a friend of Norman Douglas, Richard Aldington, and D. H. Lawrence. In 1928 he undertook to publish in Italy the first edition ofLady Chatterley's Lover, in an unexpurgated edition of 1000 copies. Later, he had a bookshop at 30 Museum Street, London. This memoir had included various imprudent comments about his experiences as a gay man. But because such activities were illegal in Britain in the 1930s, discretion forbade them to be published and so they were excised. However the manuscript still exists, and these photocopies show what was expurgated: "Mr. Bartlett … offered me a drink, asked what… Read More

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

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 to edges. Uncut. Scarce. . Very Good. Cloth. Signed Limited Edition. 1937.

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.

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. Partially uncut. Scarce. A solid copy in Fine condition. . Fine. Wraps. Signed Limited Edition. 1937.