Adventures of a Bookseller
by Orioli, G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Boulder , Colorado, United States
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About This Item
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Abacus Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 553
- Title
- Adventures of a Bookseller
- Author
- Orioli, G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Robert M. McBride and Co.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Book Selling, Biography, Books About Books
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Abacus Books
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Boulder , Colorado
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Marginalia
- Marginalia, in brief, are notes written in the margins, or beside the text of a book by a previous owner. This is very...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...