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Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Now Translated from the Italian by Philip Henry Wicksteed. 74 [2] pp. Folio, publisher's quarter vellum, gilt-lettered. No. 90 of 265 copies. Bookplate removed from the front pastedown, leaving a slight shadow and residue; tiny bookseller's ticket at rear; small stamp-sized abrasion to the lower corner of the front board (possibly a library call number sticker); a little rubbing at extremities; clean, tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. Life of Dante. Riverside Press, 1904.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Good; Library binding - red cloth over boards, covers soiled, typical library marks on title page, verso and page 49, ; Ex-Library; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 75 pages
Seller: Gerry Mosher, Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 76 pp. With 5 line woodcut decorative red initials, woodcut portrait of Dante on title-page, red woodcut printers device. Small folio, bound in publisher's quarter vellum, over brown paper boards, title gilt on spine, uncut. One of 265 copies. A beautiful printing in English of Boccaccio's eulogy of Dante Alighieri, designed by Bruce Rogers at The Riverside Press. A fine copy printed on thick hand made paper. Ex Libris stamp of Lorraine & Dick Laub on front flyleaf, plus a letter concerning the sale of the book from the Riverside Press dated February 17, 1905.
Seller: Sanctuary Books, A.B.A.A., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Riverside Press, 1904, #56 of 265 copies. 8-1/2"x13", vellum spine, paper covered boards, 74pp. owner's blind stamp on several pages, covers VG-, contents VG, $
Seller: Harry Alter, Sylva, NC, U.S.A.