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The Island of the Day Before. Translated from the Italian by William Weaver
Edition: First paper edition
New York: Penguin, 1996. Card covers with flaps. VG clean and unworn copy, no owner names. ; Octavo 0140259198
Book ID: 53076More details Price: USD $9.95 USD $8.96 -
THE NEW ITALIAN NOVEL
Edition: First Canadian edtition
University of Toronto Press, 1997. Octavo. Maroon card covers. 261 pp. Near fine, no owner names or text marks. "... each chapter [is] written by an Italian specialist [with] a full introduction setting the novelists in their historical and cultural context, 'The New Italian Novel' is essential reading for anyone wanting an English introduction to the best of Italian writing." - rear cover. 0802080804
Book ID: 27432More details Price: USD $17.95 USD $16.16 -
THE REBELS (Die Rebellen). Translated by Huntley Paterson.
Edition: First UK printing
London: Heinemann, 1929. Black cloth. Foxing to top page edges and lightly to rear endpapers; ink name to front free endpaper; else fine. Cream jacket has nicks to tips of bit tanned spine; lesser tanning to panels, flap folds; VG o/w. A psychological historical novel by this noted German author. "The background is that period of Italian history in which the way was being prepared for the revival of Italian unity by the revolutionary activities of the Carbonari, the mysterious secret society to which the French Emperor Napoleon III belonged as a young man." (jacket flap).
Book ID: 3914More details Price: USD $34.95 USD $31.46 -
THE SEALED PACKET: a novel [Giulio Malatesta]
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson, no date, 1874. Octavo, original light brown cloth stamped in blind and gilt, dark brown endpapers. pp [2]. (17)-407, [1], (16, catalogue), [2]. Bit of wear to ends of lightly darkened spine; crease title leaf; small hole to pp 30-33 with loss of a few words; else a VG clean and tight copy, no owner names. Presumed first US edition, ca 187-, of GIULIO MALATESTA (London, 1874). Like many of his novels, set in Italy, where he lived most of his life. Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1810-92), was the elder brother of Anthonly Trollope. He was prolific and was a good writer, unustly neglected today. The present edition is scarce.
Book ID: 42022More details Price: USD $65.00 USD $58.50 -
THE THREE SISTERS. Translated with an Introduction and Notes by Donald Beecher & Massimo Ciavolla
Edition: First of this edition
Ottawa: Dovehouse Editions, 1993. Octavo, 131 pp. Card covers. Fine copy, no owner names. Carleton Renaissance Plays in Translation 14. Italian. Note: lighter parcel, any default postage rate may be reduced. 0919473814
Book ID: 30899More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00 -
THE TRAGEDIES OF VITTORIO ALFIERI: complete including his posthumous works. Translated from the Italian. Edited by Edward Alfred Bowring...VOLUME I ONLY
London: George Bell, 1876. Volume I (of II). Maroon cloth. pp xviii+580 + 24 pp catalogue. Bohn's Standard Library edition. p. 134 has some ink notations in the upper margin, VG clean and unworn otherwise. Contains: Philip - Polynices - Antigone - Virginia - Agamemnon - Orestes - Rosmunda - Octavia - Timoleon - Merope - Mary Stuart. ; Octavo
Book ID: 50711More details Price: USD $18.95 USD $17.06 -
THE TWO OF US. Translated from the Italian by Angus Davidson. (proof copy)
Edition: First UK printing
London: Secker & Warburg, 1972. Advance uncorrected proof in orange card covers. Corner nicks at head of spine, light yellowing to page edges, else fine. Scarce in this advance issue.
Book ID: 2226More details Price: USD $25.00 USD $22.50 -
THE USES OF LITERATURE:essays. Translated by Patrick Creagh
Edition: First US printing
New York: Harcourrt Brace Jovanovich, 1986. Cloth & boards. Remainder stripe to top page edges, else fine in a VG+ jacket. ; Octavo
Book ID: 52953More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
TRAVELLING SKETCHES in the North of Italy, the Tyrol, and on the Rhine. With Twenty-Six Beautifully Finished Engravings from Drawings by Clarkson Stanfield.
Book ID: 15116More details Price: USD $175.00 USD $157.50
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TWO STORIES AND A MEMORY. Tranlsated from the Italian by Archibald Colquhoun. With an introduction by E.M. Forster
Edition: First UK printing
London: Collins and Harvill Press, 1962. Blue boards. Yellowing to page edges, else fine in VG jacket. Includes photo plates. ; Octavo
Book ID: 51441More details Price: USD $19.95 USD $17.96 -
UP HILL AND DOWN DALE IN ANCIENT ETRURIA.
Edition: First US issue
New York: Appleton, 1910. Made from UK sheets. Blue pictorial cloth gilt, top edge gilt. 320 pp + frontispiece with tissue guard, 11 plates, and one map. Shallow chipping to cloth at spine tips; one inch split to top spine fold, and partially cracked front inner hinge, neatly repaird; text paper slightly tanned; rubber stamp to front pastedown; moderate wear to outer corners; else a VG copy, text clean and unworn. Travels to study the abandoned sites of the ancient Etruscans.
Book ID: 7105More details Price: USD $35.00 USD $31.50 -
WITHIN OUR TEMPLE: a history of the Order Sons of Italy of Ontario
Edition: First Edition
Toronto: Order Sons of Italy of Ontario, 1995. pp (xviii), 223 + colour photos; b&w photos in text. Fine copy.; Octavo
Condition: Fine
Book ID: 44716More details Price: USD $10.00 USD $9.00