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Autobiography of a Generation - Italy, 1968


Passerini, Luisa

Softcover. Middletown, Wesleyan University Press, 2nd, 2004, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 166 pages. Softcover. Some light underlining in pencil. Light wear.

Record # 611708


Price: $15.00 

 

Battle of Cassino, The


Majdalany, Fred

Hardcover. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, First Edition, 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 309 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket with age toning, tears to edges & chipping to spine. Toning to edges throughout. Black & white illustrations. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751174


Price: $15.00 

 

Beatrice Cenci - 2 Volumes


Ricci, Corrado

Hardcover. New York, Boni and Liveright, 1st US, 1925, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 2 hardcover volumes. Volume 1 - 324 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn with rubbing, chipping - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy. Volume 2 - 321 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs and drawings. Dust jacket worn with rubbing, chipping - jacket now protected with clear plastic cover. Clean, tight copy.

Record # 612143


Price: $44.00 

Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in ItalyMayes, Frances

Bella Tuscany: The Sweet Life in Italy


Mayes, Frances

Hardcover. New York, Broadway Books, 1st, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 286 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Blind stamp on cover. Dust jacket price clipped. Otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469278


Price: $10.00 

CaravaggioHibbard, Shirley G.

Caravaggio


Hibbard, Shirley G.

Softcover. New York, Westview Press, 1st, 1985, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 404 pages, illustrated throughout in color and b&w. Light edgewear and scuffing to wrappers. Overall, a tight clean copy.

Record # 458811


Price: $25.00 

 

Constantine the Great - The Man and His Times


Grant, Michael

Hardcover. NY, Scribners, 1st, 1994, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Black & white illust. 267 pages.

Record # 64168


Price: $19.00 

 

Divine Aretino, The


Cleugh, James

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.

Record # 951748


Price: $19.00 

Duse, a biographyWeaver, William

Duse, a biography


Weaver, William

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.

Record # 469378


Price: $15.00 

Echoes of Old Florence: Her Palaces and those who have lived in themLeader, Scott

Echoes of Old Florence: Her Palaces and those who have lived in them


Leader, Scott

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.

Record # 408290


Price: $188.00 

 

Eug

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.

Record # 31723


Price: $38.00 

 

Famous Americans in Florence


Dentler, Clara Louise

Hardcover. Firenze, Giunti Marzocco, 1st, 1976, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 96 pages. Collection of biographies of famous Americans living in Italy. Gray cloth cover, color illustrated dust jacket, 40 b&w plates. Wear to dust jacket edges; overall a clean, tight copy.

Record # 605429


Price: $19.00 

 

Filippo Lippi (The Library of Great Masters)


Fossi, Gloria

Hardcover. Florence, Italy, Scala/Riverside, 1st, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 80 pages. Softcover. 78 full color plates. Binding tight. Wrapper glossy and excellent. Pages have just a touch of age tanning to edges. Clean inside and out. In beautiful shape. Examines life and artistic work of Fillippo Lippi.

Record # 31482


Price: $15.00 

 

Garibaldi - The Revolutionary and his Men


Viotti, Andrea

Hardcover. Dorset, UK, Blandford Press, 1st, 1979, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, black & white illust. 236 pgs.

Record # 108375


Price: $25.00 

Hills Of Tuscany: A MemoirMate, Ferenc

Hills Of Tuscany: A Memoir


Mate, Ferenc

Hardcover. New York, Albatross, 1st, 1998, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 248 pages. Hardcover. Gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469272


Price: $11.00 

 

I'm a Born Liar: A Fellini Lexicon


Pettigrew, Damian

Hardcover. US, Harry N. Abrams, 1st, 2003-12-01, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 175 pages. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 462261


Price: $25.00 

Italian Neighbors or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona Parks, Tim

Italian Neighbors or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona


Parks, Tim

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Faint foxing to top edge, otherwise a clean, tight copy.

Record # 469283


Price: $15.00 

Italian Neighbors or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona Parks, Tim

Italian Neighbors or, a Lapsed Anglo-Saxon in Verona


Parks, Tim

Hardcover. New York, Grove Weidenfeld, 1st, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Silver gilt titles on spine. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 469281


Price: $19.00 

Leonardo: The Artist and the ManBramly, Serge

Leonardo: The Artist and the Man


Bramly, Serge

Softcover. US, Penguin Books, reprint , 1995, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 493 pages. B&w illustrations throughout. 8 pages of b&w photographs. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 466935


Price: $13.00 

 

Life of Cesare Borgia, The


Sebatini, Rafael

Hardcover. London, Stanley Raul, 11th pr., 1928, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 1st pub. in 1912. Previous owner's bookplate

Record # 57670


Price: $8.00 

 

Life of Georgio Vasari, The: A Study of the Later Renaissance in Italy


Carden, Robert W.

Hardcover. New York, NY, Henry Holt & Co., First Edition, 1911, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover. 365 pages. Gilt top edge. Bright gilt decoration to front cover board. Faded gilt titles to spine. Crack to front half title page but the binding is very tight throughout. Wonderful illustrations in black & white with no markings. Faint toning to pages throughout. Maroon coloured boards with light wear to edges, light wear to crown & heel of spine. Clean pages, some uncut.

Record # 751576


Price: $75.00 

 

Mauro in America: An Italian Artist Visits the New World


Cazort, Ms. Mimi

Hardcover. New Haven, Yale University Press, reprint, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 160 pages. 60 b&w illustrations, color frontispiece. Black cloth cover, very little wear. Dust jacket has minor wear to edges. Very bright and clean. A nice copy.

Record # 455672


Price: $25.00 

 

Michelangelo's Mountain: The Quest For Perfection in the Marble Quarries of Carrara


Scigliano, Eric

Hardcover. US, Free Press, 1st, 2005-08-30, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 352 pages, b&w illustrations. Light edgewear to dust jacket, else a clean, tight copy.

Record # 463541


Price: $11.00 

 

Millet: Sessanta capolavori dal Museum of Fine Arts di Boston


N/A

Conegliano, Italy, Ombra, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 255 pages, text in Italian, exhibition catalog. 60 color reproductions of Millet's works along with black and white photographs and sketches. Also provides a 20 page biography at the close of the book. Rubbing to back wrapper.

Record # 512232


Price: $32.00 

Murder of a Medici PrincessMurphy, Caroline P.

Murder of a Medici Princess


Murphy, Caroline P.

Hardcover. Oxford ; New York, Oxford University Press, USA, 1st, April 2008, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 397 pages, b&w and color illustrations. A very clean, tight copy.

Record # 454648


Price: $12.00 

 

Mussolini - A Study in Power


Kirkpatrick, Ivone

Hardcover. New York, Hawthorn Books, Inc., 1st, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 726 pages. Illustrated with black & white photographs. Dust jacket shows light wear along edges. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 609735


Price: $18.00 

 

Niccolo's Smile - A Biography of Machiavelli


Viroli, Maurizio

Hardcover. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1st Thus, 2000, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 271 pages. Hardcover. Bright dust jacket in very good condition. Jacket illustration by Santi di Tito, Portrait of Machiavelli, Florence, Italy. Clean, unmarked copy.

Record # 750390


Price: $15.00 

 

Rome Fell Today


Adleman, Robert H. and Colonel George Wilson

Hardcover. Boston, Little, Brown and Company , 1st, 1968 , Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 336 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. Illustrated endpapers and fly leafs. Some tearing and edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 857467


Price: $10.00 

 

Sea and the Sailor, The: Notes on France and Italy, and Other Literary Remains of Rev. Walter Colton. With a Memoir by Rev. Henry T. Cheever.


Cheever, Rev. Henry T.

Hardcover. New York, A. S. Barnes & Co., 1st, 1854, Book: Fair, Dust Jacket: None, 437 pages. Brown cloth cover with gilt lettering and design. Wear on bumped edges and spine. Foxing throughout, heavy in parts. Provincetown library sticker on front endpaper. Some b&w illustrations. An interesting biography.

Record # 852467


Price: $20.00 

Setting the World on Fire: The Brief, Astonishing Life of St. Catherine of SienaEmling, Shelley

Setting the World on Fire: The Brief, Astonishing Life of St. Catherine of Siena


Emling, Shelley

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st, 2016, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 256 pages. Hardcover with dust jacket. A very clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket edges. Black and white images throughout. A tight copy.

Record # 471485


Price: $13.00 

 

Sinatra: The Life


Summers, Anthony, Robbyn Swan

Hardcover. New York, Alfred A. Knopf, 1st, 2005, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 573 pages. Hardcover. Dust jacket unclipped, excellent. B/w illustrations throughout. Binding tight, pages bright, spine straight. Yellow cover boards, black quarter cloth, gilt title on spine. Deckled edges. In great shape, looks barely read. "Tracing the arc of this incredible life, from the humble beginnings in Hoboken to the twilight years as a living legend in Malibu, Sinatra follows a career built on raw talent, sheer willpower - and criminal connections."

Record # 31769


Price: $23.00 

 

Tasso


Hasell, E. J.

Hardcover. Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott, reprint, 1882, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: None, 211 pages, green cloth covers with black design, Foreign Classics for English Readers. A biography of Torquato Tasso, 16th Century Italian romantic poet. Ex-library with light marking, residue.

Record # 402634


Price: $12.00 

 

Ten Pains of Death, The


Maxwell, Gavin

Hardcover. New York, E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., First US, 1960, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Good, 272 pages. Hardcover. Pale red cloth boards with sunfaded spine & top edge, navy printed titles to spine. Fraying to head & heel of spine. Black & white illustrations throughout. Previous owner's name to front flyleaf & faint toning throughout. Clean & unmarked copy.

Record # 751177


Price: $25.00 

Thousand Bells at Noon, A: A Roman Reveals the Secrets and Pleasures of His Native CityRomagnoli, G. Franco

Thousand Bells at Noon, A: A Roman Reveals the Secrets and Pleasures of His Native City


Romagnoli, G. Franco

Softcover. New York, Harper Perennial, 1st, 2003, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 261 pages. Paperback. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to wrappers.

Record # 469255


Price: $10.00 

 

Tina Modotti - A Life


Cacucci, Pino

Hardcover. NY, St. Martins, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Very good, clean condition. includes black & white photos of Modotti as well as black & white reproductions of her own photos. Trans. from Italian by Patricia J. Duncan. hardbound, 225 pgs.

Record # 108702


Price: $25.00 

 

Tina Modotti: A Life


Cacucci, Pino

Hardcover. New York, St. Martin's Press, 1st US, 1999, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 225 pages, hardcover with dust jacket. Biography of famed photographer and silent film actress. Translated by Patricia J. Duncan. Heavy fading to spine. Mild rubbing and edgewear to dust jacket. Black-and-white photographs throughout. Unmarked. A clean and tight copy.

Record # 952503


Price: $29.00 

To Reason WhyForman, Denis

To Reason Why


Forman, Denis

Hardcover. Suffolk , Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1st, 1992, Book: Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 220 pages. B&w photographs throughout. Gilt titles on spine. Faint odor, otherwise clean, tight copy.

Record # 469506


Price: $13.00 

 

Venice and Its Story


Okey, T.

Hardcover. London, J.M. Dent, 1st, 1910, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 332 pages. Green cloth hardcover with decorations in black. Full color and black & white Illustrations by Nelly Erichseb, W.K. Hinchliff & O.F.M. Ward. Gilt top edge, titles. Previous owner's signature front fly leaf. Light wear to covers

Record # 19864


Price: $38.00 

 

Venice: Pure City


Ackroyd, Peter

Hardcover. US, Nan A. Talese, 1st US, 2010-11-02, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, 403 pages. Clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket.

Record # 462474


Price: $15.00 

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