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Exeter, N.H. 1813 – 1847 [ with gaps during 1820-22, 1824, and 1834-39]. 14 volumes. Including 12 narrow folio volumes 410 x 170 mm., [16 ¼ x 7 inches] of Day Books and Customer sales; and 2 large folio volumes 440 x 290 mm., [17 ½ x 11 ½ inches]..... More
New York: Architectural Book Publishing Co., Inc., 1925. Folio. 310 x 240 mm., [12 x 9 ¼ inches]. 13 pp. text. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 126 photogravures. Original gray cloth, decorated with the title in blue; dust jacket, with a chip at the head of the spine. Very good..... More
ca. 1930. Oblong 4to. 240 x 320 mm., [9 ¼ x 12 ½ inches]. Illustrated with 40 photographic gravure reproductions. Bound in still paper wrappers, sewn with red cord; some discoloration of paper stock but sound and attractive copy. Souvenir of the City of Florence illustrated with the iconic sites..... More
Amsterdam: Lecturis, 2019. Oblong 4to. 240 x 290 mm., [9 ½ x 11 ½ inches]. 10 pp. text, 60 photographic illustrations. Original boards, photo illustrated cover. A photographic slice of life, of a small, intimate café in Gloucester, Massachusetts, that almost disappeared with the passage of generations. Goldberg’s photos capture..... More
New York and Florence: Wildenstein & Co., Inc and G. C. Sansoni, 1949. Folio. 280 x 210 mm., [11 x 8 inches]. 118 pp. text, 122 full-page color and black and white illustrations. Original wrappers, tissue cover; binding showing some light wear, otherwise very good copy. Post-War introduction of 19th..... More
New York: Grove Press, ]2000]. 8vo. 230 x 150 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 inches]. xvi, 427 pp.. Illustrated with 8 color plates. Publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. Very good copy. First American edition. My aunt Iris, who at the age of 93 read and reviewed this work, wrote the following: ..... More
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911. 8vo. 210 x 145 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 ¾ inches]. xxiv, 603 pp. Illustrated with a folding frontispiece and a folding map, and 58 photo reproductions printed on glossy paper in the text. Publisher’s decorated green cloth and spine; showing minor..... More
New York: Walker & Company, 2003. 8vo. 230 x 155 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 inches]. viii, 373 pp.. Illustrated with a frontispiece, 8 color plates, and black and white images in the text. Bound in publisher’s cloth, with dust jacket. Very good copy. First edition. Popular history, written after..... More
New York: Macmillan Company: a Giniger Book, 1966. Tall 8vo. 250 x 190 mm., [10 x 7 ½ inches]. 302 pp. Illustrated with 49 color photographs by Mario Carrieri, maps, historical views, and portraits of the Popes throughout the text. Pale blue publisher’s cloth, dust jacket. A very good copy. First..... More
London: Chapman and Hall, Ld. 1905. 8vo. 195 x 130 mm., [7 3/4 x 5 inches]. 235 pp. Illustrated with a folding map of Southern Italy and a few illustrations in the text. Original green publisher's cloth, title and decoration in gilt on cover; title and author on spine; spine..... More
Boston: Shepard, Clark and Brown, 1859. 8vo. 190 x 125 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 inches]. 336 pp. Bound in original publisher's brown textured cloth. Bookplate of Seton Hall College, dated June 25th, 1862. Excellent copy.First edition, also published under the title My Unknown Chum. Charles Bullard Fairbanks was Boston born and..... More
New York: James Pott & Co., 1907. 8vo. 215 x 155 mm., [8 1/2 x 6 inches]. xii, 323 pp., plus 2 pp. ads. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 29 half tone photographs. Publisher's decorated terra cotta cloth; spine sunned and a bit soiled, otherwise a very good copy.First impression..... More
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1983. 8vo. 210 x 140 mm. , [8 1/4 x 5 3/4 inches]. [xii], 188 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket, small chip to the top edge of the lower cover. First edition. Hughes, the noted historian of 20th century Europe tackles the literary genre with his..... More
New York and Londong: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1897. 8vo. 210 x 140 mm., [8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches]. xxiv, 385 pp. Illustrated with a frontispiece and 48 half tone photographs. Original decorated publisher's cloth, some slight water damage to the upper cover.Account of Sicily at the turn of..... More
Trento, Alto Adige: Travel and Tourist Office, 1927. 12mo. 165 x 120 mm., [6 1/2 x 4 3/4 inches]. Illustrated with two folding maps and half tone photographs of Trento and its environs. Original printed wrappers; minor wear to the edges, a small stain at the upper corner of the..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. Small 8vo. 200 x 130 mm., [ 7 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches]. [8], 294, [2] pp. Publisher's binding and dust jacket. Very good copy.First American edition. Sandor Marai was a ardent anti-facist who emigrated from Hungary to Italy and then to the United..... More
Ravenna: Longo Editore, [1977]. Including Baretti's long lost theatical productions, Chisciotte in Venezia; La Filippa trionfant; intermezzo musicali; and his Fetonte sulle rive de Po, and La Voix de la Discorde, ou la Bataille des Violons. 8vo. 116 [2] pp. Original printed wrappers.Most famous for his association with Samuel Johnson, his..... More
New York: the Dial Press, 1928. 8vo. 301 pp. Original black cloth, paper label on spine; head of spine chipped at edges.; no dust jacket.First American edition. Originally published in 1884, Verga's nine stories of village life in rural Sicily is, "in many ways the most interesting of Verga books"..... More
New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1923. 8vo. [12], 454 pp. Original orange cloth, title-lable on upper board and spine; cloth a bit soiled, spine faded; missing dust jacket.First American edition. Verga's last major work of fiction, originally appearing in 1888. Lawrence writes, "Basing their judgement on the two novels, I Malavoglio and..... More
New York: Grove Press, 1953. 8vo. 226 pp. Original cloth, dust jacket; jacket with creasing along the folds at the spine and tips, minor loss at the head and tail of spine.First American edition. Called by Lawrence "the greatest writer of Italian fiction, after Manzoni", these twelve stories of Sicily..... More
New York: New York Review of Books, 2001. 8vo. 235, 4 pp. Paperback wrappers. Very good copy.Originally published in 1892 under the title Senilita, this translation by de Zoete was issued in 1932. This is the story of a middle aged man falling in love with a much younger women, ultimately..... More
Milano: Feltrinelli, 1964. Small 8vo. 180 x 110 mm., [7 x 4 1/4 inches]. 262, 2 pp. Illustrated with 12 halftone photograps. Original paperback wrappers; some markings in the text by previous owner; otherwise very good.First edition. Critical biography of the life and works of Ernest Hemingway, with appraisals of..... More
Old Town, Penobscot, Maine: June 1847- December 185. Folio. 350 x 225 mm., [14 ½ x 9 ½ inches]. Manuscript in ink. 467 pp. Contemporary reverse sheep; some minor wear to bindings edges and tips, otherwise sound and attractive. Text block tight and handwriting very legible. The names "B.P. Wadleigh"..... More
(Waterville). 1799-1805. Folio.310 x 195 mm., [12 ½ x 7 ½ inches]. Manuscript in ink. 263 ff. Contemporary reverse sheep; wear, tear at top of spine, but a tight and sound copy. Handwriting very legible.Although no company name or ownership name is found in the ledger, Nathaniel Gilman’s signature appears..... More
