Hardcover. New York, Macmillan Company, 1st Edition, 1963, 218 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout, including frontispiece. Black cover boards, gilt title on spine. Dust jacket priceclipped, has some agewear (see image), but no rips or tears. Binding tight, no pages missing, spine straight. Pages clean and unmarked. Top edge dyed. In great shape for its age. Vaussard has produced an engagingly realistic account of the conditions of life in town and country, from north to south, and in all levels of society. The illustrations are almost all from contemporary paintings.
Hardcover. New York, North Point, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 314 pages. Cream colored cover and white spine with gilt lettering. Color illustrated dust jacket.
Hardcover. New York, Doubleday, 1st, 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 368 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. This dramatic, beautifully written account of the flood that ravaged Florence, Italy, in 1966 weaves heartbreaking tales of the disaster and stories of the heroic global efforts to save the city s treasures against the historic background of Florence s glorious art.
Hardcover. London & Toronto, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1st, 1982, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Scarce title. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to slightly sunned spine. Pictorial dust jacket, light overall wear, small closed tear to front cover, back-flap chipped at upper edge, ink-marks to front fly leaf. A very nice, tight, clean copy.
Hardcover. Leigh-on-Sea, F. Lewis Publishers, Ltd., 1st, 1969, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 112 pages of text + b&w plates in rear. Slight sun-fade to price clipped dust jacket spine with slight crease to front cover. Clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Leigh-on-Sea, F. Lewis Publishers, Ltd., 1st, 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages of text + b&w plates in rear. Slight sun-fade to dust jacket spine, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. Leigh-on-Sea, England, F. Lewis, Publishers, 1st Edition, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 72 pages plus plates. Hardcover. B/w illustrations (plates). Binding tight. Spine straight. Pages clean, unmarked. Dust jacket price clipped, a touch of tanning to spine. Blue cloth cover boards, gilt title on spine and design on front cover board.
Hardcover. London, Anthony Blond Limited, 1st UK, 1965, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 263 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of a con artist and Court Jester from the Renaissance. Slight bowing to boards. Bumping to corners. Price-clipped. Moderate edgewear and rubbing to dust jacket. Mild age toning to top text block edge. Black-and-white illustrations throughout. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1st, 2004, Dust Jacket: Near Fine, 245 pages, SIGNED BY AUTHOR ON TITLE PAGE. Book in excellent condition.
hardcover. NY, Rizzoli, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 144 pages. Black and white photographs by a pioneering paparazzo. Essay by Giovanna Bertelli.
Hardcover. New York, Norton, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 446 pages. Hardcover. Unmarked copy. Colorful account of Italy's post war cultural transformation. Bright dust jacket, clean and tight copy.
Softcover. New York , Dover Publications, Inc., 1st, 1968, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 32 plates in b&w. Translated by Florence H. Phillips. Light shelf-wear and rubbing to wrappers, else a clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 233 pages, illustrated throughout in b&w. Red cloth, gilt title to spine. Price clipped dust jacket with light wear. Previous owner's bookplate in front. Overall a very nice, tight, clean copy in protective brodart cover.
Softcover. Newark, NJ, Rabin & Krueger Gallery, 1st, 1962, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 13 pages of text, plus 158 black-and-white plates. Light edge-wear, shelf-wear, and creasing to covers. A little foxing along top edge of rear cover and spine. Minor damp stain to top of spine. Otherwise, clean, tight copy.
Hardcover. San Diego, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1st, 1984, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 383 pages. Hardcover. B&w photographs throughout. Includes extensive bibliography. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.
Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, 1st, 1970, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, xxvi+314 pages. 186 B&w illustrations. Green cloth. Gray pictorial dust jacket, price clipped, sealed up tear to spine, edge wear.
Hardcover. Boston, Oliver Ditson Co., 1st, 1906, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Black & white photos of musical instruments. 180 pages. Hardcover, olive green covers with gilt lettering, red cloth spine. Ex-lib with light marking, residue.
Softcover. Milan Italy, Edizioni Ambiente, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 301 pages, softcover with French flaps. Collection of the most recent developments of the debate and research on food and sustainability. Stamping to front flyleaf. Bright and clean. A tight copy.
Hardcover. Florence, Flor & Findel, 3rd, 1907, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 254 pages. Tipped in illustrations and photographs. Age discoloration on every page, beveled brown leather over covers with three bands on spine continued on front and back cover ending in flor de lis decoration. Rubbing all edges. front and rear hinge cracked.
Hardcover. Milan , Banca Commerciale Italiana, 1st, 1967, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 399 pages, b&w and color plates. Hardcover exhibition catalog that studies the economic and cultural relationship between Italy and England in the mid-1800s. Text in English and Italian. Large volume.
Hardcover. Boston, MA, James R. Osgood & Company, 1st, 1883, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 280 pages. Hardcover. B/w illustrations throughout. Cover boards bound in dark brown cloth, gilt title on spine and design embossed on front cover. Cover boards have some age wear, fraying, rubbing, chipping. Front and rear hinges cracked, but binding still tight. Spine slightly cocked. Some moisture staining along foreedge, but doesn't affect text or illustrations. Moisture damage to back cover board. Tanning from age throughout. In great shape for its age.
Hardcover. Florence, Italy, Giulio Giannini & Son, 1st, 1912, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, With two Botticelli color plates of St. Augustine, decorated title page and cover. Latin and English text. Light edge wear and rub to cover, otherwise, very bright and clean.
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