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London: Printed by W. Bulmer, 1818, 4to. 285 x 225 mm., [11 ¼ x 8 ¾ inches]. 65 pp. include two blanks. Original drab paper wrappers, untrimmed; wrappers expertly repaired at spine and edges with Japanese tissue. Very good copy in original state. Near fine copy of the first edition..... More
Milano: Philippe Foyot per Rocco & Ambrosio da Valle, 1521. Two parts on one volume. Large 8vo. 280 x 190 mm., [11 x 7 ¼ inches]. [18] including a blank leaf, 161, [1] ff.; [16], 146 ff. Large woodcut frontispiece introducing the second part of an image representing and a...... More
N, p., December 25, 1809. Small 8vo. 170 x 110 mm., [6 ¾ x 4 ¼ inches]. [vi], 223 pp. Illustrated with a hand drawn dedication leaf, with a presentation inscription set within detailed decorative border and above a basket of fruit on a mantle, colored by hand. Bound in..... More
Venizia: Presso Antonio Savioli, 1775. 8vo. 200 x 140 mm., [7 ¾ x 5 ¼ inches]. 107 [1] pp. Contemporary paste-paper boards; binding soiled, title in ink on spine, text block lightly foxed throughout. First edition, followed by a Verona edition, with addition, printed in 1798. A select bibliography, listing..... More
In Parigi: [Venice]: A Spese di Giannalberto Tumermani Stap. Veron. 1747. Folio. 350 x 240 mm., [ 13 x ½ x 9 ¼ inches]. [viii], 143, 96 pp. Engraved frontispiece and 24 engravings in the text. The typographical design of the poem is Ricchi, who divided each page into two..... More
New York: Phaedra Inc. - Publishers, 1970. 8vo. 210 x 140 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [vi], 311 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket; jacket a bit toned and bumped at the corners and small tear at lower edge of the front wrapper. Previous owners stamp on front pastedown..... More
New York: Julian Messner, 1960. 8vo. 210 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches]. [viii], 246 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket. Jacket with rubbing at the edges, head and tail of spine with minor tears, a bit fading to the color of the jacket, otherwise very good copy.First..... More
London: Peter Owen, [1953]. 8vo. 190 x 12o mm., [7 1/4 x 5 inches]. 211 pp. Publisher's cloth, dust jacket; jacket with some light abrasion and a bit of fading to the red; verso of the jacket shows some discoloration, otherwise a very good copy.First English edition. Collection of Pavese's..... More
London: John Lehmann, [1952]. 8vo. 190 x 130 mm., [7 1/2 x 5 inches]. 189 pp. Publisher's cloth in blue pictorial dust jacket by John Minton. Jacket extremities a bit rubbed, the whole rather foxed, especially the verso and rear panel, white portions of the spine showing toning, additional light..... More
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. 8vo. 125 x 160 mm., [9 1/4 x 6 1/4 inches]. 6, 351 pp. Fully illustrated with plates and images in the text. Cloth, dust jacket.First edition. "This wonderful chronicle of Florence is worthy of the City and its lucky inhabitants. Reading it..... 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
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
