Author: BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI
Title: The Decameron (Modern Library #71. 3)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1954]. Hardcover. Giovanni Boccaccio's famous Decameron is a collection of short stories, told over a span of 10 days by 10 people who were secluded near Florence during the period of the Black Death. The series was completed about 1353. Translated from the Italian by John Payne and with a preface by Morris L. Ernst. Complete and unabridged. Volume wrapped in variant jacket with E. McKnight Kauffer image of book, stars and heart on purple background. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 370 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1954 (no publication date appears on book). ML #71.3. --- A sound, tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.45) with chips and small tears to edges and sunning to spine, otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xxii, 830, (8, ads) pages. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Title: The Decameron (Modern Library #71. 3)
Description: New York: The Modern Library / Random House, [c.1954]. Hardcover. Giovanni Boccaccio's famous Decameron is a collection of short stories, told over a span of 10 days by 10 people who were secluded near Florence during the period of the Black Death. The series was completed about 1353. Translated from the Italian by John Payne and with a preface by Morris L. Ernst. Complete and unabridged. Volume wrapped in variant jacket with E. McKnight Kauffer image of book, stars and heart on purple background. --- In Toledano spine 8 / rust cloth / gilt titling on black spine & cover blocks / black topstain / grey Kent endpapers / jacket style i, verso lists 370 titles in ML catalog. Likely published c.1954 (no publication date appears on book). ML #71.3. --- A sound, tightly-bound, unmarked copy. Unclipped dust jacket ($1.45) with chips and small tears to edges and sunning to spine, otherwise intact and protected in removable mylar wrapper.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; xxii, 830, (8, ads) pages. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>Modern Library Editions
Price: US$ 16.00 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 87206
- Book number: 87206