Alger, Horatio, Jr.

Strive and Succeed; or, the Progress of Walter Conrad

Philadelphia, The John C. Winston Co, N.D. Hardcover. Early 1900s. 355pp. Original green pictorial cloth stamped in purple, red and black. Frontispiece. Toning to text block. Name on front pastedown endpaper and on front free endpaper, some wear to edges, mild spine slant. A very good- copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 24643

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: FICTION, YOUNG ADULTS Children and Young Adults

Alighieri, Dante

La Commedia Di Dante Alighieri Nel Testo E Nel Commento Di Niccolò Tommaseo

Milano, Aldo Martello Editore, 1965. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Edition published to celebrate the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante's birth and limited to 500 numbered copies. In three volumes. 361pp; 333pp; 345pp. Full deep green morocco ruled and lettered in gold on the spine, five raised bands, top edges gilt, others uncut, green endpapers; printed on special Ventura paper. The volumes come in sturdy green paper covered publisher's slipcases with leather inserts. With more than one hundred illustrations by fifty contemporary Italian artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Renato Guttuso, Emilio Greco, Aligi Sassu, Carlo Carrà, Remo Brindisi, Massimo Campigli, Carlo Corsi, Carlo Guarienti assembled for a special Quadriennale exhibition in 1960. Very mild wear to the spines but a superb set nonetheless. This copy, not numbered, is ad personam for Bruno Molajoli. ; Quarto. .

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Book number: 19546

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: ITALIAN BOOK, ITALIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, POETRY, DIVINE COMEDY, CLASSICS, FINE BINDINGS

Alighieri, Dante

La Commedia Di Dante Alighieri Nel Testo E Nel Commento Di Niccolò Tommaseo

Milano, Aldo Martello Editore / Edizioni Labor, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Edition published to celebrate the seven hundredth anniversary of Dante's birth. In three volumes. 210, [1]p; 225, [2]pp; 240, [7]pp. Quarter brown morocco, spine with two raised bands, lettered and decorated in gold. Printed on Ventura paper. With more than one hundred illustrations by fifty contemporary Italian artists including Giorgio de Chirico, Renato Guttuso, Emilio Greco, Aligi Sassu, Carlo Carrà, Remo Brindisi, Massimo Campigli, Carlo Corsi, Carlo Guarienti assembled for a special Quadriennale exhibition in 1960. The three volumes are in fine condition but for a small bruise to the spine head of volume one. The slipcases show some toning and wear and one has a short tear to the side. In the Italian language. ; Quarto. .

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Book number: 28970

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: ITALIAN BOOK, ITALIAN LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, POETRY, DIVINE COMEDY, CLASSICS, FINE BINDINGS

Alighieri, Dante

IL Convivio

Firenze, G. Barbèra Editore, 1928. Hardcover. 6.5 x 10 cm. 380 pp. White cloth stamped in gold on the front panel and red and gold on the spine panel. Decorated endpapers, all edges stained red. Front hinge is cracked but the binding is still solid. About very good. In the Italian language. ; 24mo. .

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Book number: 16039

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: Literature, italian book, Italian Language, PHILOSOPHY

Allen, Edward

Mustang Sally: A Novel

New York, W. W. Norton & Company, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Review copy with publisher's material laid in. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 21183

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: FICTION

Allen, Curt

The Naked Trap

New York, Bee-Line, 1967. First Edition. Paperback. 182. PBO. NF. Slightly yellowed pages. Very minimal wear. Photo cover. Great looking copy. Near Fine .

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Book number: 3983

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: Adult, Sleaze, Erotica

Allende, Isabel

The House of the Spirits

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First US Edition. Hardcover. Inscription on front free endpaper, price-clipped dustjacket has a 3 mm tear along the lower edge of back panel. A near fine copy in near fine dustjacket. The author's first book and basis for the movie featuring Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Antonio Banderas. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 10320

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: FICTION, CHILE

Allende, Isabel

Portrait in Sepia

New York, HarperCollinsPublishers, 2001. First American Edition. Hardcover. A fine copy in fine dustjacket. Translated from the Spanish by Margaret Sayers Peden. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 11928

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: FICTION, Historical Novel, Nineteenth Century, CHILE

Altieri, Marcella

Chi Pensa Al Vento Non Seminerà

Marzocco. First Edition. Printed wrappers. A very good copy. Text in Italian.; 32mo. .

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Book number: 29234

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: ITALIAN BOOKS, ITALIAN LANGUAGE, MINIATURE BOOKS, POETRY, LITERATURE Poetry

Amado, Jorge

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell

New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1965. First US Edition. Hardcover. 97pp. Decorated boards. Illustrations and dustjacket art by Emil Antonucci. Translated by Barbara Shelby. About fine in near fine dustjacket. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 28059

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

D'Ambra, Lucio

Conversazioni Di Mezzanotte

Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1937. First Edition; Second Printing. Softcover. Very light wear. Some leaves are unopened. Last volume of the "Romantic Trilogy". In Italian.; Octavo. .

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Book number: 3287

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: FICTION, italian book, Italian Language

D'Ambra, Lucio

IL Passo Nella Mia Strada

Milano, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1939. First Edition. Softcover. Small stamp on the inside of back cover. Leaves are unopened. A very good copy. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 3286

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: FICTION, italian book, Italian Language

De Amicis, Edmondo

La Carrozza Di Tutti

Milano, Fratelli Treves, Editori, 1920. Hardcover. Later printing. Bound in green half-cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Text block age-toned. A very good copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 14281

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: italian book, Italian Language, Literature, Torino

De Amicis, Edmondo

L'Idioma Gentile

Milano, Fratelli Treves, Editori, 1918. Hardcover. Later printing of the 1905 revised edition. Bound in green half-cloth stamped in gilt on the spine. Faint scar on front free endpaper, text block age-toned. A very good copy. In the Italian language. ; Octavo. .

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Book number: 14282

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: italian book, Italian Language, Literature, Short Stories, creative writing, LANGUAGE STUDIES

Andersen, Hans Christian

The Wild Swans, and Other Stories

Boston, J. E. Tilton and Company. Hardcover. 128pp. Brown cloth stamped in gold on the spine panel. Frontispiece and two inserted plates. Small bookstore label of Geo. H. Hees of Oswego, NY, on the front free endpaper (which bears also the residue of another bookstore label). Light wear to extremities. A very good+ copy. ; 16mo. .

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Book number: 31929

Catalogue: Fiction and Literature

Keywords: FICTION, YOUNG ADULTS, ANTIQUARIAN, LITERATURE Children and Young Adults Antiquarian