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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
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: 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
New York: The Modern Library, 1995. Illustrated from Etchings by Gian Battista Piranesi. Three volumes. Thick 8vo. liii, 840 pp.; [12], 841-1668pp.; [12], 1669-2538 pp. Illustrated with reproductions of images of Rome by G. B. Piranesi and numeorus maps of the Empire showing the changing nature of the influence of..... More
New York: Simone & Schuster, 2016. Original cloth backed boards, dust jacket. 8vo. 308 pp. Endpapers illustrated with a map of Venitian Lagoon. First edition, fine in near dust jacket.By the author of Gorky Park. The novel is set in Venice during the WWII and tells the story of the..... More
Metuchen, New Jersey, 1932. 8vo. 210 x 125 mm., [8 ¼ x 5 inches]. 67 pp. Original blue paper covered boards, title label pasted to front board; binding showing some light wear, blue covers a bit soiled. Printed in an edition limited to 240 copies, this copy numbered 233. Part..... More
New York: 1962. 8vo. 235 x 160 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches]. 55 pp. Illustrated frontispiece and 24 plates. Tan linen cloth binding, title gilt on spine. Stralem, Harvard class of 1924, began collection in a minor way after graduation and focused on building a collection of England..... More
Boston: C. F. Libbie & Co., May 10 and 11, 1905. 8vo. 240 x 155 mm., [9 ¼ x 6 ¼ inches]. 123 pp. Original printed wrappers; some soiling and discoloration of the wrappers, spine a bit chipped, yet sound. This copy with a presentation bookplate inside the back wrapper..... More
