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.

Toronto: Guernica, 2003. Card covers. Reading crease to spiine, else fine. Promotional bookmark laid in.

Toronto: Guernica, 1996. Glossy card covers. pp 76. Fine copy. A short novel. Note: light parcel, any default shipping may be reduced.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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)

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.

Toronto: Exile, 2005. Card covers. pp (xxviii), 291. Fine copy.

New York: Fordham University Press, 1997. Colour glossy boards. pp viii, 332. Sunning to the pink portion of the spine, light foxing to top page edges, else a VG+ clean, tight and unworn copy, no owner marks, no jacket (as issued). The first direct translation from the Italian into English. A dramatic tragedy, with Italian and English text on facing pages.

Québec: Les Presses de l'Université Laval / Leyde: Brill / Toronto: Samuel Stevens, Hakkert, 1976. Blue cloth. xviii, 476, [2]; (xiv), (75) pp. Fingernail-size chip to fore margin of rear blank of volume I; a few small spots to front cover of Volume II; else a fine pair, without jackets, as issued. Volume II is the plates volume, with 256 figures on 73 plates plus two maps at rear. Etruscans. Note: 3 kg parcel, extra postage will be required