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Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron. Pub. for subscribers only by Boni & Liveright, 1925.

Price: US$13.75 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: 1925. No Edition Remarks. 302 pages. No dust jacket. Black cloth. Moderate tanning, with light foxing and marking to pages. Cracks to guttering throughout, with exposed netting. Heavy tanning to text block edges. Some rub-marking and tanning to pastedowns and endpapers. Boards have moderate shelf wear, with rubbing and marking. Light bumping to corners and moderate crushing to spine ends. Boards are slightly bowed.

Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron, Volumes I and II. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Black cloth covers. Covers have blindstamping with gilt to front and spine. Very light wear at edges. All book edges uncut. Number 273 of 2,000 copies, it is signed by publisher. Translated by John Payne and illustrated by Clara Tice. Each volume has FO bookplate to front pastedown but no other marks. Each has break in endpapers at gutters but both remain solid. Volume 2 had pieces missing from FFEP that appears to be from manufacture. Very light age tanning to both. ; Small 4to 9" - 11" tall

Seller: The Book Lady, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.

BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI. THE DECAMERON. BONI & LIVERIGHT, New York, 1925.

Price: US$85.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: A GOOD FIRST LIMITED EDITION 2 VOLUME SET IN CLOTH. SIGNED AND NUMBERED 1987 OF 2000. ILLUS. BY BONI AND LIVERRIGHT. FEW PAGE EDGES WORN AND CHIPPED.

Seller: Vagabond Books, A.B.A.A., PASADENA, CA, U.S.A.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron Volumes I-II. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.

Price: US$97.60 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Minor wear to head and heel of spines

Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Translated by John Payne. Illustrated by Clara Tice.. New York, Printed for subscribers only by Boni and Liveright, 1925., 1925.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: First edition with the Tice illustrations. No. 716 of an edition of 2000 copies, colophon states "positively limited to 2000 copies printed on special paper," copy number stamped and signed impersonally in colophon as "Boni and Liveright." 8vo, bulky set. Two volumes in original publisher's cloth with wallet-style closing flaps. Bindings have a few small spots. Contents fine. Plates of the Tice illustrations were destroyed after printing. Heavy set, foreign orders will require substantial additional shipping charges above standard Priority due to size and weight.

Seller: Alexanderplatz Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Boccaccio, Giovanni; Payne, John (trans.). The Decameron (Two volumes). Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Limited Edition, #1341/2000; 2-volume set in black cloth covers, gilt portrait on front, gilt titles on spine, blind-stamped decorative design on front and back of covers; light wear to covers; Vol. I hinges cracked; bookplate inside each volume; internally very good; many full-page illustrations by Clara Tice.

Seller: Indy Library Store, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. Decameron. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Description: Tall 8vo. 2 volumes. v1: [xxix], 374 pp / v2: [ix], 355 pp. Illustrations by Clara Tice. Cloth binding with yapp edges, gilt lettering & design, very good set. (88188). Translated by John Payne.

Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. THE DECAMERON VOLS. 1 & 2. Boni & Liveright, 1925.

Price: US$116.00 + shipping

Description: THE DECAMERON, Vols. 1 & 2, Boni & Liveright, 1925, first edition, front inner hinge starting on the second volume, else a tight, very good set with 48 illustrations by Clara Tice. 1/2,000 copies SIGNED by the pubishers. Translated by John Payne.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

Boccaccio, Giovanni.. The Decameron. New York: Boni and Liveright, 1925.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Two volumes (complete), quarto, black wrapper-around cloth lettered in gilt with ornate gilt design; minor staining to upper corner of several pages not affecting the text. First Boni edition, translated by John Payne and illustrated by Clara Tice. One of 2000 numbered sets, signed by the publisher. A handsome set.

Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron (Two Volumes). Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925. Here is a beautiful set of Boccaccio's erotic masterpiece, number 62 in an edition LIMITED to 1000 copies that have been SIGNED by the publisher. Large, heavy octavos, "For Subscribers Only". Dark green cloth bindings, ruled, with a gilt medalion of the author on the front cover; gilt lettering on the spine. The Translation is by John Payne; Introduction by Francis Hueffer. Absolutely clean text on heavy stock. Volume One (xxix, 374 pages) goes to the end of the Fifth Day; Volume Two (355 pages) includes three Appendices, by Richard Garret, Sir Walter Raleigh, and W.P. Ker. The spines are lightly faded, and the front hinge of Volume One is cracking; else Fine copies of this quite attractive edition. Signed by Publisher. First Thus. Hard Cover. Near Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Clara Tice. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni; John Payne, transl; Clara Tice, illus. The Decameron. Boni & Liveright, New York, 1925.

Price: US$220.00 + shipping

Description: First printing. Regular issue, of 2000 copies "signed" by the publisher. Two large octavo volumes (27cm). In the original black wallet-edged cloth boards, titled in gilt on spines with gilt portrait medallion to each front cover; page edges uncut; xxix, [1]- 374pp; x, [2]-355, [1] p.; ill., port.; 24 leaves of pictorial plates (halftones, after Tice's original etchings) in each volume, not reckoned in pagination. Mild sunning to spines; faint vertical reading crease to spine of v.I; still a tight, clean, Near Fine set. Vol. II contains essays on Boccaccio by Richard Garnett, Sir Walter Raleigh and Prof. W.P. Ker. A somewhat typical "luxury edition" for the mass-market bibliophile of the 1920s, complete with a very pronounced (and impractical) wallet fore-edge on the boards. Made desirable, however, by the really charming illustrations by Tice, which manage to capture the eroticism of Boccacio without overstepping the bounds of Comstockian decency (something of an accomplishment, given the history of frequent run-ins between the Boni brothers and the New York Society for the Prevention of Vice). There was a simultaneous deluxe issue of 12 copies with original etchings.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.

Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron (Two Volumes, Complete). Boni & Liveright, NY, 1925.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Limited edition, signed by the publisher on the Limitation Page (this is number 1,753 of only 2,000). Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spines, gilt medallion portraits and blind-stamped borders and decoration on covers, deckle edges, yap edges, orange and black title pages. Profusely illustrated with 48 full-page, B&W engravings by Clara Tice. Translated by John Payne. Introduction by Francis Hueffer (his article from the famous 11th edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica). . Hinges split on endpapers only, but hinges strong; former owner's bookplates on ffeps, otherwise unmarked, edges, heads and heels slightly worn, else fine; tight, square, with clean and bright text blocks. A large, heavy set - additional shipping charges may apply. VERY GOOD. . B&W Engravings. 4to 11" - 13" tall. xxix, (i), 374; x, (i), 354, (1) pp

Seller: Round Table Books, LLC, Palatine, IL, U.S.A.

TICE, Clara (illus.); BOCCACCIO, Giovanni.. Decameron. Translated by John Payne.. New York: Boni & Liveright, 1925, 1925.

Price: US$4873.30 + shipping

Description: First Tice edition, signed limited issue, this copy uniquely, if erratically, illustrated, with the issued half-tone plates replaced with Tice's original hand-captioned etchings, and three of Tice's expurgated illustrations in two states, one of which not called for in the list of illustrations. This is number 334 of 2,000 copies signed by the publisher, this copy is unusual in being also signed by Tice. Several of the explicit erotic illustrations Tice produced for this work were deemed too risqué for general publication and Tice was asked to redraw them for the final edition; some of them were never issued. This set includes three of these ribald plates, alongside their censored replacements. We were able to trace only one other set with a number of these illustrations included, though in that copy they were half-tone reproductions rather than original etchings as here. A deluxe issue of 12 sets with etchings was also produced, and we have traced only one copy of it in auction records. The etchings in this set are hand-captioned by Tice, with page numbers that differ from both their location and the printed illustration list, suggesting that they may have been produced for Tice's own reference when working on the book's production. The set is accompanied by a suite of the removed half-tone illustrations and a second set of 22 of the 48 illustrations as etchings, these uncaptioned (excepting one, captioned p. 36). One of the etchings is in two states: one with Tice's pencil signature, the other with the signature engraved. Clara Tice (1888-1973) was a notorious New York bohemian artist, known as "the Queen of Greenwich Village". She was, according to the New York Times, the first woman in New York to bob her hair, and she began exhibiting her work there from 1910, rising to prominence in 1915 when the Society for the Prevention of Vice attempted to confiscate her works, which were on show at the bohemian restaurant Polly's. "Tice was apparently so highly regarded and so instantly recognizable as one of those 'queer artists' that her role in the first Greenwich Village Follies was simply to play herself. As 'Clara,' she stepped out onto the stage at the appointed time, outfitted in one of her typically bizarre bohemian ensembles, and conducted a 'quick chalk talk of nudes, bees and butterflies'" (Sawelsan-Gorse, p. 429). Throughout the 1920s she contributed to Vanity Fair and other magazines, and illustrated several books, such as this, with her softly erotic illustrations. Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, Women in Dada, 2001. 2 volumes, quarto. Original black cloth, spines lettered in gilt, covers blocked in blind, front covers with gilt oval portrait of Boccaccio as centrepiece, yapp edges, largely uncut. Additional etchings and half-tone illustrations in a repurposed green leather folding box, labelled "Balzac's Droll Stories". Half-tone frontispieces, 2 half-tone plates, 48 etched plates (the majority hand-captioned by Tice), of which 3 are in two states. Folding box with 22 additional etchings and 44 half-tone illustrations. Spines uniformly faded, cloth lightly rubbed, couple of corners worn, splits to inner hinges, remaining firm, occasional browning or faint marks to margins, generally clean, with the plates in strong impression. A very good copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom