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A JOURNEY TO FLORENCE IN 1837. Edited with notes by G.R. de Beer, F.R.S.
London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951. Second printing. 12mo, brick cloth. pp 175, including frontispiece portrait and one facsimile. Slight wear to head of spine, else a VG clean and unworn jacketless copy. Well written journal of a trip from London to Florence written by a girl no older than 14 years.Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced.
Book ID: 44964More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
A MAJOR SELECTION OF THE POETRY OF GIUSEPPE UNGARETTI. Translated by Diego Bastianutti
Toronto: Exile, 1997. Glossy card covers. pp (471). Text in English and Italian. Fine copy. ; Octavo
Book ID: 53765More details Price: USD $24.95 USD $22.46 -
A MYSTERY IN NAPLES. Translated by Thomas Simpson
Toronto: Guernica, 2003. Card covers. Reading crease to spiine, else fine. Promotional bookmark laid in. ; 16mo
Book ID: 53124More details Price: USD $8.95 USD $8.06 -
A WOMAN. Translated by Rosamond Delmar. With an introduction by Richard Drake
Edition: First of this edition
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980. Grey cloth. Fine in fine, price-clipped jacket. First publishing in 1906, this Italian novel was "Hailed in its day as the Book of Genesis in the bible of feminism" (introduction).; Signed by ML45
Book ID: 41506More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
AGOSTINO. Translated by Beryl de Zoete with an Introduction by Ian Greenlees.
Edition: Fiirst UK printing
London: Secker & Warburg, 1947. Octavo. Patterned boards with cream cloth spine. Slight age-darkening to foot of spine and upper edges of boards; rubbing to edges of boards; else near fine, no owner names. Thin price-clipped jacket has shallow chips to tips of slightly rubbed, slightly darkened spine; couple of small chips to front panel; upper two inches of rear panel chipped away.
Book ID: 3245More details Price: USD $15.00 USD $13.50 -
ANALYSE GÉOGRAPHIQUE DE L’ITALIE, dédiée a Monseigneur le Duc d’Orleans, premier Prince du Sang. Par le Sieur d’Anville, Géographe ordinaire du Roi.
Edition: First Edition
Book ID: 54476More details Price: USD $495.00 USD $445.50 -
AT THE COURT OF THE BORGIA: Being an Account of the Reign of Pope Alexander VI Written by his Master of Ceremonies Johnann Burchard, Edited and Translated by Geoffrey Park
London: Folio Society, 1991. Third printing. Brown decorated cloth stamped in red & black, endpaper maps, maps and illustrations. Soft corner crease to two leaves, else fine in fine slipcase. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52524More details Price: USD $14.95 USD $13.46 -
BITTER HONEYMOON and Other Stories.
Edition: First US printing
New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, 1956. Cloth and patterned boards. Page edges very slightly darkened, else fine. Jacket has tanning to spine, flap folds, rear panel, VG+ otherwise. Publisher's file copy - rubber stamped in red on front free endpaper and on first page of the Philip Rahv introduction is " Permanent Publicity File Copy". Marginal ticks in pencil to introduction possibly indicating some copy used in promotion. Eight of his longer stories, each concerned with relat onships between men and women, boys and girls. Translations by Baptista Gilliat, Frances Frenaye, and Bernard Wall.
Book ID: 3720More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
BRUNELLO TO ZIBIBBO: the wines of Tuscany, Central and Southern Italy
Edition: Second Printing
London: Mitchell Beazley, 2003. pp xxviii, 493. Map, illustrations, index. ; Octavo
Condition: Near Fine
Book ID: 54961More details Price: USD $10.95 USD $9.86 -
CASA GUIDI WINDOWS: A Poem
Edition: First Edition
London: Chapman & Hall, 1851. Original vertically ribbed blue-grey cloth decorated in blind, modern rebacking in grey cloth with leather spine label, original cream endpapers. pp (viii), 140, no publisher's ads at rear, half-title leaf present. Outer corners professionally repaired at tips, mostly erased pencil notations on front endpapers; in all a VG or bit better clean and tight copy, text paper lightly toned but unsullied. Colbeck Collection I, p. 95. Wise 14. The poem was written in support of Italian independence.; Small octavo
Book ID: 28976More details Price: USD $275.00 USD $247.50 -
CONSTANZA.
Edition: First printing
Book ID: 47075More details Price: USD $75.00 USD $67.50 -
DARKNESS. Fiction. Translated by Martha King
Edition: First edition in English
South Royalton, VT: Steerforth Press, 2002. Blue boards. Fine copy. Jacket has a crease to front flap, else fine. Twelve interconnected crime stories, it won Italy's Strega Prize. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52957More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
DE' TEATRI MODERNI contrarj alla professione cristiana libri due del P. Daniele Concina dell'ordine de'predicatori in conferma delle sue dissertazioni De spectaculis theatralibus
Roma (Rome): Presso gli eredi Barbiellini Mercanti di libri, e stampatori a Pasquino, 1755. Quarto. pp xxviii, 376, indexed, title page in red and black, engraved device on title page, decorated initials, head and tail pieces. Bound in old half vellum and marbled boards without free endpapers, gilt lettered label on spine, sprinkled page edges. Marbled boards are rubbed, with some peeling in inner margins; small blue spots along fore margin of title page; in all, externally VG, internally fine, no library marks. Concina, a noted reactionary and austere Dominican preacher of Venice, spoke strongly against modern culture and engaged in heated polemic and controversy. Note: 2 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.
Book ID: 33442More details Price: USD $395.00 USD $355.50 -
EPISCOPO & CO. Translated by Myrta Leonora Jones
Edition: First edition in English
Chicago: Herbert S. Stone, 1896. 16mo, (4), (xiv), 123, (1), (1 ad), (3) pp. Dark blue decorated cloth stamped in gilt, top edges gilt, others rough trimmed. Yellowing to page edges, light foxing to endpapers, small spot on front cover, soft bruise to lower fore corners of covers, nicks to head of spine, a few small soil spots in lower margin of three pages, VG+ otherwise, no owner names. The great Italian author's first book-length work published in English, a short novel. The second book to bear the Herbert Stone imprint and the first to bear its logo, designed by Frank Hazenplug. Kramer 108.Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced, depending upon your location.
Book ID: 31254More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
FAMOUS CASTLES & PALACES OF ITALY
Edition: First Edition
London: T. Werner Laurie, no date (1911). Red cloth, front cover stamped in black, spine in black and gilt. pp [2, blank], (x), 320 + 8 colour plates from painitings with captioned tissue guards + 8 b&w plates. Spine lightly sunned, with gilt lettering oxidized; serious bump to lower outer corner of front cover and softly to early leaves; yellowing to page edges and endpapers, light foxing early and late; Xmas, 1921, ink gift inscription at front; else a VG clean, tight and unworn copy. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping will be required. ; Tall octavo
Condition: Good
Book ID: 38702More details Price: USD $30.00 USD $27.00 -
I TATTI STUDIES: Essays in the Renaissance. Volume 2 1987
Edition: First Edition
Florence, Italy: Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies), 1987. Deep red cloth, black cover and spine titles, pp. 271+ [1] (Publ. adverts.), 8 inserted black & white plates, printed both sides, containing 22 illustrations. Faint yellowing to margins of endpapers, bottom outer corner of front cover gently bumped, else fine copy in cream dust jacket. Light dust soiling to dj, mild tanning to spine and upper portion of rear cover, else very good. Eight essays - contributors include: Richard A. Goldthwaite, F.W. Kent, Roger Jones, H. Colin Slim, Valerie Wainwright, Robert Black, and Nancy Struever. Note: 1.5 kg parcel, extra shipping may be required.; Small quarto 03935949
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket
Book ID: 27709More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
Il libro delle ore di Anna di Bretagna (sec. 16.) : un'opera d'arte e di devozione con traduzione dal latino in italiano
Assisi: Ex Libris miniatis, 2017. Red cloth gilt lettered. pp xii. (468). Colour reproductions. Ink gift inscription at front, else fine. Text is in Italian. The original manuscript dates from the early 16th century. 1.9 kg parcel; Quarto
Book ID: 53910More details Price: USD $50.00 USD $45.00 -
IN VENICE AND IN THE VENETO WITH HENRY JAMES
Venezia (Venice): Università ca' Foscari di Venezia, 2005. Card covers. pp 71. Photos, colour maps. Fine copy. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.; Octavo
Book ID: 52846More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
INTERPRETING THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE: Literary Perspectives
Edition: First Edition
Stony Brook, NY: Filibrary / Forum Italicum, 1991. Tall octavo, icard covers with flaps. pp. xvi, 207. Small corner crease to front cover, VG clean and unworn copy otherwise. "This book is a collection of perspectives [18 essays] on the literature of the Italian Renaissance prepared for the [titled] symposium which was held at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, March 1-3, 1990." - Introduction. (Filibrary Series #1)
Book ID: 27632More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
ITALIAN FANTASIES
Edition: First US printing
New York: Macmillan, 1910. Cream cloth richly decorated in green and gilt, gilt lettered. pp (x), 408, (4, ads), [2] + colour frontispiece with tissue guard, top edges gilt. Mild rubbing to inner top edge and to gilt spine imprint; small crease to lower outer corner of pp 191-98; one inch tear to fore margin of pp 279-80 neatly repaired; large creases and small tear to pp 305-06 (manufacturing flaw, no text loss); yellowing to fore edges; externally, very nearly fine, handsome binding. But for the aforementioned flaws, internally fine. Italian travelogue by the noted British-Jewish novelist and short story writer. ; Octavo
Book ID: 44871More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06