Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good minus in orange vellum covered boards, 31 x 22 cm. Spine is sunned to light tan and boards are somewhat bowed. Ffep ghosted by front front board. Number 1354 or 1475 copies, this is an excellent example with the English text running alongside the Italian on each page; a pleasure to read. Except for issues mentioned, no other flaws.
Seller: DIAMOND HOLLOW BOOKS / MILES BELLAMY, ANDES, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$625.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a Limited Edition of 1475 copies, of which this is number 214. It is printed on Van Gelder paper by Daniel Jacomet. The Italian text was established originally in 1923 by Mario Casella and revised for this edition by him. The English translation by H.F. Cary was originally published in 1814 and with corrections in 1844. Full orange vellum over boards, folio size, no dust jacket. There is foxing on the first free endpaper and the last free endpaper, but all other pages and all plates are pristine and present. The spine is badly sunned, there is a long light scratch on the front cover and a deeper shorter scrape. Former owner's pastedown bookplate on endpaper. The vellum has pulled the boards a bit, which vellum has a tendency to do as it ages.
Seller: Trouve Books, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Limited edition: 1-1475 numbered copies, this being number 242. Folio. 325 pp. Illustrated by Sandro Botticelli. Bound in gilt-stamped orange vellum. Top edge gilt. Printed by the Westminster Press on Van Gelder paper; illustrations printed by Daniel Jacomet. Spine sunned and covers with some typical bowing, vellum on front and rear covers bright with light soil. This is a tight, very good book.
Seller: Thomas Dorn, ABAA, Canton, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: The Nonesuch Press, 1928. Folio, iv, 324 p., in full orange vellum ruled and stamped in gilt. One of 1475 copies printed on Van Gelder paper with 42 sepia collotype plates after Sandro Botticelli. One of the Nonesuch Press' characteristically lavish productions, and one of the most heavily oversubscribed at the time of publication. The original print run was plagued by issues with the paper and the binding, and as a result this title is frequently found with boards severely splayed and / or split. This is a VG copy with soiling to boards and some fading and light creasing to the spine; front board lightly bowed, some whitening to corners and spine heel; prelims spotted and foxed, with second blank heavily creased, but a handsome copy overall of a Nonesuch high spot.
Seller: Marc J Bartolucci, Hudson, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.54 + shipping
Description: Limited edition of 1,475 copies on Van Gelder paper, of which this is copy 876. [4], 324pp, [3]. Parallel Italian and English text, printed in double columns. With 42 sepia collotype plates (34 double-page). Original publisher's gilt-stamped orange vellum. A trifle rubbed, spine sunned. Internally clean and crisp. The exquisite Nonesuch Press edition of Dante's magnum opus, the Italian text edited by Marion Casella of the University of Florence paired with the celebrated English translation of H. F. Cary; with 42 illustrations reproduced by Daniel Jacomet after drawings by Sandro Botticelli. Size: Folio
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Price: US$800.54 + shipping
Description: 1,475 numbered copies. Folio, [4],327p. 42 illustrations after drawings by Sandro Botticelli. Original deep orange calf, lettered and blocked in gilt, the backstrip faded and the covers slightly stained and the free end-leaves browned, top edge gilded in the rough; bookplate of David Sellars. Printed at the Westminster Press in Poliphilus an Blado type faces; the text set in two columns with parallel texts. HEAVY BOOK please note that this title weighs more than the 1 kg packed average on which postage charges are based. Overseas customers may wish to email us through the 'Ask the bookseller a question' option for delivery options and possible additional charges.
Seller: Barry McKay Rare Books, Appleby-in-Westmorland, CUMBR, United Kingdom
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This is a very good hardcover copy in the publisher's original orange-stained vellum, gilt. Top page edge gilt, others untrimmed. Double page black & white illustrations taken from Botticelli's drawings in Berlin and Rome. The spine is faded, as usual. Very clean throughout. This is a limited edition of 1475 copies, this copy numbered 403. The orange vellum boards are ruled in gilt and have gilt designs front and back. The boards are not worn, just the spine sunned. Small private owner bookplate on inside front cover. 12" high X 8" wide. A handsome production by the incomparable Nonesuch Press. Large heavy book, foreign shipping will be extra. This book will be securely wrapped and packed in a sturdy box and shipped with tracking.
Seller: Design Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1187.50 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 1475 copies, folio, pp. [4], 324, [3]; full original orange vellum; near fine copy, with a small split to the front cover along one of the fillets and a few other hints of wear to the extremities, but with no fading of the spine, as is common with this book. The Italian text was edited by Marion Casella of the University of Florence with the English version of H.F. Cary, 34 double-page and 8 full-page illustrations after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli. One of the premiere productions of the press. Dreyfus, 50.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: No. 293 of 1475 copies. 42 illustrations after the drawings of Sandro Botticelli. 324, [325-328] pp. 1 vols. Folio. McKitterick 50; Dreyfus 50 Original full orange-stained vellum, double gilt rule borders on upper and lower cover. Central gilt ornament on both covers, spine with gilt rules, t.e.g. Slight bowing to covers, marking at head of spine, tips of covers rubbed along edge at top, near fine 42 illustrations after the drawings of Sandro Botticelli. 324, [325-328] pp. 1 vols. Folio
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2250.00 + shipping
Description: Limited to 1475 copies, this no. 1174. 324p. Illustrated with 42 double-page plates after Sandro Botticelli. 4to. Bound in full orange-dyed vellum, gilt, t.e.g. on the rough. Housed in custom full slipcase of blue silk-covered boards with leather spine label gilt. Text in Italian and English side by side in columns. Edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence, the English version by H.F.Cary. Printed on Van Gelder paper with the Nonesuch watermark. Designed by Francis Meynell. Dreyfus 50. A brilliant copy with absolutely none of the usual spine fading and no warping. Just a hint of soiling to cover, a bit of spotting to edge of front flyleaf
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$2440.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 1475 numbered copies, this one being number 546. An rather clean, bright and pleasing copy in orange colored vellum, lettered and designed in gilt. No fading to spine and no warping. With 42 illustrations, measuring each about 18 1/2 by 12 1/2 inches, that have been reproduced in Berlin and Rome from earlier drawings by Sandro Boticelli. This edition has been printed on Van Gelder paper. The text has been printed in Volume is housed In a double layered slip-case; wrap around stiff boards in quarter leather slip-case ; The preeminent contribution to Italian literature by Dante Alighieri (ca.1265-1321) , poet, writer, and political thinker. Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise or Heaven; ; Small Folio; iv, 324, [4] pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
DANTE ALIGHIERI. La Divina Commedia. Nonesuch Press, 1928.
Price: US$2561.73 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: DANTE ALIGHIERI. La Divina Commedia or the Divine Vision of Dante Alighieri in Italian & English, translated by H.F.Cary, one of 1475 copies. Nonesuch Press 1928. Folio; bright orange stained vellum, double gilt ruled, gilt centrepiece with fleurons encircling a D to both boards, very light spotting to covers, gilt lettering and ornament to spine; edges untrimmed, light foxing to endpapers, internally clean and crisp copy. Limited print run number 420 0f 1475 copies printed on Van Gelder paper; includes 42 illustrations reproduced by Daniel Jacomet after the drawings by Sandro Botticelli, in sepia collotype. A stunningly bound and beautifully fine exemplar of La Divina Commedia, a limited edition copy by the Nonesuch Press. This was their largest and most intricate volume published to date, of which 1,475 copies were printed. However, its production was plagued by misfortune, when the handmade paper from Italy that had been ordered was so defective that it was unusable, and the stained orange calfskin that was used for the binding, which naturally shrinks and extends in reaction to changes in temperature and humidity, made the boards warp. The Francis Meynell, one of the founders of the Press, wrote that it has been a book more full of anxieties than any I have ever tackled. Nevertheless, the book became an unprecedented success for the Nonesuch Press and was the most oversubscribed of all their publications. Reviewers wrote I am sure this book has caused more comment amongst the people interested in books of fine typography than any other book that has come into the United States in years. Everybody is crazy to see the book, and another who hoped that the book would not be purchased by those perverse bibliophiles who thwart the holy intention of books by locking them uncut upon their jealous shelves (Dreyfus, p. 46). The Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell (1891-1975), his second wife Vera Mendel, and their mutual friend David Garnett (1892-1981). Their aim was to produce high-quality and beautiful volumes printed by commercial printers, making their works available to a wider audience at lower prices. The volume presents a side-by-side narrative with Dantes Italian text was edited by Mario Casella of the University of Florence, after corrections to its first version from 1925, while the English version was made by H.F. Cary, first published in 1814. The italic type and the use of roman capitals to mark the start of each line was inspired by the page design of Venetian books from the early sixteenth century. The choice of double column italic text was intentional not only on its aesthetic part, as a poetical and ornamental suggestiveness, but also as a way to make the reader slow down and savour each word of Dantes opus.
Seller: Symonds Rare Books Ltd, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$3327.50 + shipping
Description: Limited edition, number 805 of 1475 copies, printed in Monotype Bladfolio; text in Italian and English printed in parallel, 34 double-page and 8 full-page illustrations after the drawings of Sandro Botticelli; publisher's full orange-stained vellum, double gilt rule borders to upper and lower covers, central gilt device to both covers, gilt lettering to spine, top edge gilt, a small area of browning to the fore-edge, only discernible when open and the pages are staggered, due to he deckled or unshaved nature of the text block, otherwise a fine copy. A sumptuous edition bound in orange vellum, this beautiful book was the most over-subscribed of all the Nonesuch publications. The production was beset with problems over the paper stock and the binding, therefore as a result, it is exceptionally rare to find such a superb copy without the usual fading to spine or splaying to covers. Dreyfus 50.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom