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19245088London: Chatto & Windus 1924. First Edition. Hardcover. pp. xxxii 555. 8vo. measuring 5.5" x 8.25". Publisher's original teal cloth over boards bright gilt lettering to the spine and front board; untrimmed page edges. Striking full-page colour illustrations throughout. Excepting some light sunning to the spine the extremities remain in near fine condition. Contents equally without blemish with bright clean and unmarked pages and firm sound binding; near fine. Rare to be offered in commerce in this condition and state. A most handsome presentation of a classic of Italian literature. <br/><br/> Chatto & Windus hardcover
1911mon0000942075Gibbings & Co 1911. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. FOUR VOLUMES Gibbings & Co 1911. Bindings firm. Pages clean and bright no markings. Gibbings & Co hardcover
192934318London: Mandrake Press. Good with no dust jacket. 1929. Hardcover. Color Illustrations; 4to 11" - 13" tall; Reprinted from the original English edition translation of Bartholomew Young 1587 Now edited with an Introduction by K. H. Josling and decorated in colour by M. Leone. Green pictorial vellum with gilt. A E G. Limited to an edition of 550 of which this is #149. Colophon. Vellum has faded. Illustration coors are very bright. . Mandrake Press hardcover
1904D14606Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1904. Hardcover. Near Fine. 76 pp. With 5 line woodcut decorative red initials woodcut portrait of Dante on title-page red woodcut printers device. Small folio bound in publisher's quarter vellum over brown paper boards title gilt on spine uncut. One of 265 copies. A beautiful printing in English of Boccaccio's eulogy of Dante Alighieri designed by Bruce Rogers at The Riverside Press. A fine copy printed on thick hand made paper. Ex Libris stamp of Lorraine & Dick Laub on front flyleaf plus a letter concerning the sale of the book from the Riverside Press dated February 17 1905. <br/><br/> The Riverside Press hardcover books
1949853561949. KENT Rockwell. BOCCACCIO Giovanni. The Decameron of. Translated by Richard Aldington. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent. 2 vols. Orig. cloth spines gilt t.e.g. Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Company 1949. One of 1500 sets signed by the illustrator this being no. 689. Contains 32 color illustrations. Fine in publisher's slipcase. unknown
193454647Paris: Librairie des Bibliophiles 1934. One of 2500 copies. 366; 352; 339 pp. Paul Lacroix editor. 1 vols. 8vo. Elegantly bound in three quarter light brown morocco and decorated paper boards spine lettered and decorated in gilt and blind t.e.g. One of 2500 copies. 366; 352; 339 pp. Paul Lacroix editor. 1 vols. 8vo. <br/><br/> Librairie des Bibliophiles hardcover
1904D14606Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1904. Hardcover. Near Fine. 76 pp. With 5 line woodcut decorative red initials woodcut portrait of Dante on title-page red woodcut printers device. Small folio bound in publisher's quarter vellum over brown paper boards title gilt on spine uncut. One of 265 copies. A beautiful printing in English of Boccaccio's eulogy of Dante Alighieri designed by Bruce Rogers at The Riverside Press. A fine copy printed on thick hand made paper. Ex Libris stamp of Lorraine & Dick Laub on front flyleaf plus a letter concerning the sale of the book from the Riverside Press dated February 17 1905. <br/><br/> The Riverside Press hardcover
19491381576Garden City NY: Garden City Publishing Company Inc 1949. Limited Edition: #396/1500. Hardcover. Octavos Two Volumes. In Very Good condition. Housed in publisher's tan slip case bearing red labels with white and black lettering moderately worn. Bound in publisher's red cloth with gilt lettering to spines. Sunning to spine. Minor general shelf wear to boards. Top edges of textblocks gilt. Fore edges of textblock deckled. Signed by Kent and enumerated on limitation page in the front of Volume I. Mild age toning and light scattered staining throughout textblock. Shelved above Case 13. 1381576. Shelved Dupont Bookstore. Garden City Publishing Company, Inc hardcover
19303840Riverside Press 1930. First Edition. Hardcover Original Cloth. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Edmondo Lucchesi. No. 630 of a limited edition of 500 copies reserved for sale outside of the U. K. Illustrated by Edmondo Lucchesi. Special Limited Edition first issue in this format. Size: A4 300 x 210mm approx. Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation underlining and highlighting. Binding is tight covers and spine fully intact. Scattered foxing but text mostly clean. All edges clean neat and free of foxing. Illustrator: Edmondo Lucchesi. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Antiquarian & Rare; Italy; Renaissance 16thc to 17thc; Literature & Literary. All our pictures shown here are of the actual item not stock photos. Inventory No: 3840. . This book is extra heavy and may involve extra shipping charges to some countries. Riverside Press hardcover
1975Q-0252004795University of Illinois Press 1975-06-01. Hardcover. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! University of Illinois Press hardcover
190411599Insel Leipzig 1904 1904. HLn von Eva Aschoff 3 Bände 416 395 375s. guter Zustand. LSA532b . . HC Insel, Leipzig 1904, hardcover
1927398<p>Gius. Laterza e Figli 1927. Hardcover in half red leather. very well preserved</p> Gius. Laterza e Figli hardcover
1930240522ROSY005003London: G P Putnam's Sons 1930. Hardcover. Good Condition. An attractive used set in brick red buckram with ornate gilt titles. Top edges gilt others uncut. Lavish illustrations by Jean de Bosschère. Former academic library books; ink stamps to endpapers including withdrawn stamps; call numbers in white on spines. Poseidon bookplates to frontpastedowns partially removed. Clean and unmarked contents. Firm tight bindings. Very sound and presentable overall.Publisher's note: Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348 Giovanni Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiece recaptures both the tragedies and comedies of medieval life and is surely one of the greatest achievements in the history of literature. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Fiction; Plague Europe History ; Fiction; Storytelling ; Italian literature; Boschère Jean de 1878-1953; Boccaccio Giovanni 1313-1375; Add. Inventory No: 240522ROSY005003. . G P Putnam's Sons hardcover
1921mon0000992185Navarre Society Limited 1921. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Two Volume set Pages clean and bright Light wear to edges Dust jacket unclipped A little toning to endpapers. Navarre Society Limited hardcover
1904826A86London: Alexander Moring Limited the De la More Press 1904. Vellum. Very Good Indeed. 6" by 5" . None . The Life of Dante as narrated by Giovanni Boccaccio translated by Philip H. Wicksteed for this beautiful 'King's Classics' edition. Translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's biographical sketch of the life of Dante by Philip H. Wicksteed. Scarce edition published in the 'King's Classics' series edited by Professor Gollancz. Illustrated with a frontispiece. In uncommon quarter vellum publisher's binding with attractive marbled boards. In the original publisher's quarter vellum binding over marbled boards. Externally very smart with only minor shelf wear. Internally firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Very Good Indeed Alexander Moring Limited the De la More Press hardcover
19821078867Berlin : Mann, 1982. 278, 168 S. Mit zahlr. Abb. Originalhardcover mit Schutzumschlag.
1997194581997. unknown
195579649Paris, Les Editions du Demi-Jour, 1955, in-8 (165x230mm), broché sous couvertures illustrée, 331p., 407p. Très bon état. Ouvrage illustré de 42 planches en couleurs. Imprimerie A. Beurq pour la typographie. Aquarelles reproduites par Duval et coloriées à la main dans les ateliers d'Edmond Vairel. Traduction par Antoine le Maçon et mis en français moderne par Henri Demeurisse. Tirage limité à 1750 ex. Un des 1400 ex. sur Marais Licorne.
1997210548Barcelona: Editors S. A. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine in leather boards. Text in Spanish. Editors S. A. hardcover
196810338DESCH 1968. 1. softcover. Decamerone DESCH paperback
1904146440Cambridge: The Riverside Press 1904. First edition of the first formal biography of the father of the Italian language. Small folio original publisher's half vellum with gilt titles to the spine. One of two hundred and sixty-five copies printed for Houghton Mifflin and Company and stated on the colophon this is number 18. In very good condition bookplate to the front pastedown. Dante Alighieri was an Italian poet writer and philosopher who wrote what is widely considered the most important work of Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature 'Divine Comedy.' His implementation of language and vernacular in literature was instrumental in establishing modern-day standardized Italian and in bringing Italian to the forefront of literary language in western Europe for several centuries. The Riverside Press hardcover
192224384San Francisco: Printed by John Henry Nash for His Friends 1922. Hardcover. Near fine. No. 91 of a limited edition of 250 copies. 12.5" x 8.5" 53 pp with the "Apologia Withdrawn!" leaflet laid in. Bound in original marbled boards with mounted paper spine label. A near fine copy with unopened pages. Minor chipping to spine label mild crease to title page which presumably occurred during the production process. Printed by John Henry Nash for His Friends hardcover
1929006865Philadelphia PA: University of Pennsylvania Press 1929. 505pp. Rare original 1st Printing - 1929. This is a dual language edition with the original Italian on the verso pages with the English translation on the facing rectos. This is a long poem set in the Trojan war. Clean. 1st Printing. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. University of Pennsylvania Press hardcover
1954MM319-055Lexington KY: Gravesend Press 1954. First Edition thus. Hardcover. Very Good. Fritz Kredel. LIMITED EDITION of 200 hand-numbered copies; this is copy 58 printed from handset Caslon type on hand-made Fabriano paper. 12mo. 7 5/16 x 4 1/8 inches. vi 48 2 pp. Half-title title page in red black and blue inks decorative initials throughout some in color 6 woodcut illustrations throughout including the woodcut on the colophon also laid-in is a woodcut illustration on a small French-fold sheet which is a proof of the original illustration Fritz Kredel cut for page 4 but ultimately replaced with the illustration on page 4 that Kredel liked better; text clean unmarked. Quarter parchment spine decorated patterned paper in red and green over boards spine titled in gilt; binding square and tight light toning to extremities of covers. Red dot label on front free end-paper with penciled price book seller notations in pencil on front end-papers. MM319-055. Very Good. The text of this volume is a "story of roguery in the fourteenth-century" excerpted from Boccaccio's Decameron. It features lovely woodcut illustrations in late-medieval style by Fritz Kredel 1900-1973 a German-American artist and graphic designer; Kredel created the presidential seal for John F. Kennedy's inauguration. Joseph Graves the proprietor of the Gravesend Press was a clothing merchant vice-president and treasurer of Graves Cox & Co. who was also a book collector with an interest in printing and book illustration before he began his printing efforts. In 1948 Graves taught a course on the history of printing and book illustration at Transylvania University. It was about this time that the Gravesend Press was founded. The Gravesend press mark on the colophon of this book shows Patience the Graves' pet donkey and the "Sleeping Pressman" cut by Fritz Kredel the first use of this press mark. The pressmark contains the motto in Spanish âQue hermosa es no hacer nada y luego descansar." "Fortunate is he who can rest after having done nothing." REFERENCE: H. Richard Archer "Joseph Graves and The Press of Gravesend" The Kentucky Review Vol. 7 No. 1 Spring 1987. Gravesend Press hardcover books
1971128190Beverly Hills CA: Produzioni Europee Associati PEA / United Artists 1971. Collection of 17 vintage studio still photographs from the 1971 film all issued by the film's first distributor United Artists. Includes 6 black-and-white stills from the Japanese release between 1971-1973 though the actual date is not listed in IMDB 7 black-and-white stills from the US release December 1971 and 4 color stills from the US release. <br/><br/>The first film in Pasolini's Trilogy of life followed by "Canterbury Tales" 1972 and "Arabian Nights" 1974 a light and sumptuous adaptation of Boccaccio's work "The Decameron" replete with nudity sex and both slapstick and scatological humor. With a score by Ennio Morricone. The three films will be released as a set by the Criterion Collection in winter 2012. <br/><br/>8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus to Near Fine condition with minor use. <br/><br/>Complete collation details available on request. Produzioni Europee Associati [PEA] / United Artists unknown books
