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FLORENTINE ANTIQUARIAN BOOKSELLER &FIRST PUBLISHER OF LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVERfirst edition tall 'squarish' 8vo. [6], 434pp., original mustard wrappers with fold-in flaps, front pane titled and with a vignette in black, small clipped extract from a bookseller's catalogue for a copy of this book pasted to head of half-title, else a fine copy in its original card slipcase.One of 300 copies numbered and signed by the author. This no. 185. Armorial bookplate of John Stafford Reid Byers on verso of the first preliminary blank.Giuseppe "Pino" Orioli (1884–1942), a Florentine antiquarian bookseller, is now primarily remembered for privately publishing the unexpurgated first edition of D. H. Lawrences's Lady Chatterley's Lover and for his long association with Norman Douglas. He became a close friend of Douglas after the latter settled there is 1922 and privately published many of Douglas's subsequent writings. It was Douglas who, after Lawrence had failed to find a publisher in Britain or…
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