Orioli g (8 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. 1st Edition. First edition. Hardback, bound in the original green cloth with gilt titling to spine. 23 × 14cm, 266pp + map to rear. Florentine bookseller Giuseppe Orioli's account of a walking tour in Southern Italy with Norman Douglas and Charles Prentice. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Condition: A good reading copy. The cloth is dulled, with a slight forward lean to the spine. Small black mark to bottom edge of pages suggesting ex-Boots library or the like but no other signs. The book remains in strong readable condition, though the rear hinge is cracked but secure.…

330pp. 8vo. Original cloth, backstrip dulled. A very good copy. First US edition ( using the Britrish sheets).

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. 1st Edition. Price-clipped dust jacket faces front and back well preserved and well positioned in a mylar protector with backing which has smoothed out a lot of the creasing. That being said, there are several imperfections. In charcoal pencil on front cover written "25c". Spine is sunned and chipped missing one inch at head, tail is also chipped (eighth of an inch) on front cover edge, rub and crease marks along bottom and top edges with closed tears, only one on top edge large enough to detract from cover art. Also on top edge a second chip with one half inch diameter triangle missing. As for the book, front endpaper has been removed so it starts off with half title page. Binding is a little loose at pastedowns and boards have mild shelf wear, yellowed page edges. Two BW photographs, one of editors and the other of painting by DH Lawrence. Introduction by Graham Greene. Viking April 1953 first US edition. 192 pages with index. Superb mid-century decorations by Bruce Roberts who also design the dust jacket and title page. Bruce Roberts (illustrator). Book.…

Couverture rigide. Zustand: bon. RO60079692: 1934. In-8. Relié. Etat d'usage, Couv. défraîchie, Dos fané, Intérieur acceptable. 265 pages. Illustration en noir et blanc encollée en frontispice. Illustré de nombreuses photos en noir et blanc hors texte, et d'une carte dépliable en noir et blanc au dos du 2e plat. Mouillure au dos du premier plat. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon.…

Cloth. Zustand: Very Good. 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. 8vo. Signed Limited Edition.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Wrappers. Spine slightly darkened and showing a little wear at foot. Edition limited to 300 numbered copies signed by the author; loosely inserted a news-cutting of the TLS's review (by Masolino D'Amico) of Alberto Vigevani's 1988 Italian edition, Le avventure di un libraio. Memoirs of the friend of Norman Douglas and publisher of Lady Chatterley's Lover. "Looking back at my long relationship with Lawrence," he writes, "I come to the conclusion that it was on the whole unsatisfactory. One had golden moments with him: no doubt of that. One had also the reverse . . . In matters of business he was more trouble than any one I have ever dealt with, and as a friend so incalculable and often so disappointing, and disheartening, that now and then I wonder how many of those who knew him well were really sad when he died. Incurably distrustful of your motives, and of everybody else's! Full of reservations! When least you expected it, he contrived to do or to say something which chilled your affection to the marrow . . . Lawrence was a homosexual gone wrong; repressed in childhood by a puritan environment. That is the key to his life and writings.". Signed by Author(s).…

Wraps. Zustand: Fine. Signed Limited Edition. 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. 8vo.…

Zustand: Very Good. Number 238 of 300. Dated from inscription. Rebound in felt, leather title block on spine. Signed by author with dedication, 434pp.