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Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited edition leather-bound hard cover book in very good condition with clam-shell box also in very good condition. No dust jacket. Number 11 out of 1750. Also includes the Happy Art of Narration booklet. Gilt tops. Pages lightly tanned. This is a very heavy book and would require substantial extra postage for overseas delivery. 4to. 710pp.
Seller: Salopian Books, Shrewsbury, SAL, United Kingdom
Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Limited edition reissue of the Folio Society edition first published in 1955. 710 pp, 20 illustrations by John Buckland - Wright. Bound in full Wassa Goatskin by Real Lachenmaier, Germany with a design by Jeff Clements, top edge gilt with silk page marker. Contained in a clam - shell box and accompanied with a booklet produced for this edition 'The Happy Art of Narration, Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron'. The tiniest of marks to the top edge of the front board, light bumping to the top edge of the box but otherwise a fine copy. Limited edition of 1750 copies this being number 725.
Seller: Wildside Books, Eastbourne, United Kingdom
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron Limited Edition. Folio Society, London, 2007.
Price: US$268.73 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2007 First Thus. Fine Hardback. No inscriptions or bookplates. Fine solander box. Bound in Nigerian goatskin, blocked with an abstract design by Jeff Clements, containing motifs of medieval windows and male and female symbols. Separate leather titling label. Top-edge gilding. Ribbon marker. Presented in a buckram-bound solander box, together with a booklet 'The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron' by selected writers. Translated by Richard Aldington and illustrated with 20 aquatints by John Buckland-Wright. Set in Poliphilus. 712 pages. 10 x 6¼. Number 1537 of a limited edition of 1750 copies. It is immediately clear from Boccaccio's stories that he delighted in bawdy humour, witty repartée and the feats of tricksters. Nuns sneak their lovers into the convent, noblewomen invent clever stories to fool their husbands and priests succeed in seducing local peasant girls. Yet one also finds tales of true love, nobility of spirit and sincere piety Ghismonda drinks poison from the cup containing her lover's heart rather than live without him, whilst Gualtieri's foolishness and unjust treatment of his wife Griselda does not affect her steadfastness. Boccaccio discovered the seeds for his tales in French, Italian, Latin and even oriental sources, and his stories went on to be hugely influential on other writers. Shakespeare borrowed plots from the Decameron, while writers as diverse as Molière, Lope de Vega, and Keats found inspiration within its pages. As a rich feast of visual imagery, the book's settings, story-telling sessions and characters proved irresistible to artists in every age. UK Postage £3.40; Airmail to USA and Canada £29.40; Airmail to Rest of the World (except the EU), £39.40. We no longer export to the EU due to slow and lost deliveries, and excessive and unpredictable charges since Brexit). We only use airmail as surface mail can take up to 10 weeks
Seller: Ardis Books, Fareham, United Kingdom
BOCCACCIO. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. Folio Society, London, 2007.
Price: US$282.78 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. Full red leather goatskin decorated in gilt and black. Housed in gilt lettered hunter green clamshell box. Also included the loose booklet. Edition limited to 1750 copies of which this is #1432. Nice copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$330.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 25 x 16 cm. 710pp. Housed in a green clamshell box. Printed by St Edmundsbury Press, bound by Real Lachenmaier, Germany, in Wassa Goatskin blocked with a design by Jeff Clements. Originally done by Folio Society in 1955, this is the 2007 leather bound edition, limited to 1750 copies of which this is copy 1401. Illustrated with Aquatints by Buckland-Wright. TEG. Also included is the 8pp pamphlet "The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron"
Seller: Midway Book Store (ABAA), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio. The Folio Society, 2007.
Price: US$347.83 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Type: Z A super copy of this limited edition leather bound Folio Society publication in a solander box. Copy number 141 of 1750 numbered copies printed by St Edmundsbury Press and bound by Real Lachenmaier, Germany, in red Wassa goatskin blocked with a design by Jeff Clements in gilt and black. Silk page divider attached at the head of the spine. Upper edges gilt. Illustrated with numerous reprductions of aquatints by Buckland-Wright throughout. There is a slight blemish to the head of the front board - which may be part of the normal variation expected in leather. The book remains fresh, clean and tight. Comes in a super green solander box with the title Decameron embossed down the length of the spine. Also contains the 6pp booklet entitled The Happy Art of Narration : readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron. A fine copy.
Seller: Trumpington Fine Books Limited, Gilmilnscroft, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Published by The Folio Society Ltd at the St Edmundsbury Press, London, UK. 2007. 710 pgs. Illustrated in black and white. Limited to 1750 copies of which this is copy 498. Housed in a green clamshell box.bound by Real Lachenmaier, Germany, in Jeff Clements designed decorated Wassa Goatskin leather boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The Folio Society is a privately owned London-based publisher, founded by Charles Ede in 1947 and incorporated in 1971. It produces illustrated hardback editions of classic fiction and non-fiction books, poetry and children's titles. Folio editions feature specially designed bindings and include artist-commissioned illustrations (most often in fiction titles) or researched artworks and photographs (in non-fiction titles). Most editions come with their own slipcase. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 562 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Giovanni Boccaccio. DECAMERON. Folio Society, 2007.
Price: US$355.50 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Limited to 1,750 copies. Translated by Richard Aldington and illustrated with 20 aquatints by John Buckland-Wright. Bound in Nigerian goatskin, blocked with an abstract design by Jeff Clements, containing motifs of medieval windows and male and female symbols. Separate leather titling label. Top-edge gilding. Ribbon marker. Presented in a buckram-bound solander box, together with a booklet ‘The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron’ by selected writers. Set in Poliphilus. 712 pages. 10? x 6¼? Each is numbered by hand on a limitation page.
Seller: Fine Binding Books, Barker, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$367.15 + shipping
Description: Full red morocco, decorated in gilt and black, fold over box, unused, a very nice copy. *Luxury LIMITED EDITION of 1750 copies, no.548. Together with the 8pp. pamphlet - The Happy Art of Narration'.
Seller: Patrick Pollak Rare Books ABA ILAB, SOUTH BRENT, DEVON, United Kingdom
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Decameron. Folio Society, 2007.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Full red Wassa goatskin decoratively stamped in gilt and dark green. Includes the pamphlet "The Happy Art of Narration" Fine in fine publisher's clamshell case.
Seller: THE HERMITAGE BOOKSHOP, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
BOCCACCIO GIOVANNI. THE DECAMERON (LIMITED EDITION). LONDON THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 2007.
Price: US$418.69 + shipping
Description: LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 975. SMALL QUARTO, FINELY BOUND IN FULL WASSA GOATSKIN BLOCKED WITH DESIGN BY JEFF CLEMENTS. WITH A BOOKLET AND A SOLANDER BOX. A VERY FINE COPY.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
BOCCACCIO GIOVANNI. THE DECAMERON (LIMITED EDITION). LONDON THE FOLIO SOCIETY, 2007.
Price: US$418.69 + shipping
Description: LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES, THIS BEING NUMBER 338. SMALL QUARTO, FINELY BOUND IN FULL WASSA RED GOATSKIN BLOCKED WITH DESIGN BY JEFF CLEMENTS. WITH A BOOKLET AND A SOLANDER BOX. A VERY FINE COPY.
Seller: Hawkridge Books, Bakewell, United Kingdom
Price: US$440.00 + shipping
Description: Limited Edition of 1750 numbered copies on Abbey Wove paper. With the added pamphlet "The Happy Art of Narration. Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron" by John Dryden, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Hazlitt, Percy Byssche Shelley and James Leigh Hunt. Illustrated with 20 aquatints by Buckland-Wright. 4to, publishers original red Wassa Goatskin, lettered and blocked with a gilt geometric designs on the covers and spine by Jeff Clements, top edge gilt. Housed in the original folding case, lettered in silver on the spine panel. 709 pp. A pristine copy, as mint. IMPRESSIVE LIMITED EDITION FROM THE FOLIO SOCIETY WITH SENSUOUS ILLUSTRATIONS BY BUCKLAND-WRIGHT. Boccaccio is considered along with Dante and Petrarch as part of the great triumvirate of Italian writers. All contemporaries, they established perhaps the first true post classical literary style in Italy, and thus in Western Civilization. The DECAMERON is Boccaccios most influential work and has inspired generations of writers all around the world. Perhaps most importantly to English literature the DECAMERON is believed to be the biggest influence on Chaucer (though perhaps through an anonymous translation) for the structure of his CANTERBURY TALES. The work is a gathering of tales from several sources created by Boccaccio and written over several years, but finally collected under one title between 1349 and 1351. The story is of seven women and three men who have left Florence for ten days in order to avoid the plague. They depart for neighboring villas and over the course of the next ten days each person tells a tale to entertain the others. The hundred tales are considered one of the greatest works in Italian literature and have influenced successive generations of writers for centuries.
Seller: Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.78 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 28cm x 19cm. 710 pages, black and white illustrations. Full red leather, gilt lettering, gilt and black decoration, gilt top edge, clamshell box. Translated by Richard Aldington with aquatints by Buckland Wright. The Deluxe Folio Society Edition, limited to 1,750 numbered copies in Wassa goatskin designed by Jeff Clements. This is number 1,524. Includes the booklet: The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron Book and slipcase are in Fine Condition. Light vertical creasing to the notes booklet. Shipped Weight: 2.28 kilos.
Seller: Book Merchant Jenkins, ANZAAB / ILAB, Woolloongabba, QLD, Australia
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 712 pp. 10Ë x 6¼Ë. Copy number 1069 of an edition limited to 1750. Printed by St Edmundsbury Press and finely bound in red Nigerian 'Wassa' goatskin by Real Lachenmaier in Germany. Gilt and navy blue blocked with an abstract design by Jeff Clements, containing motifs of medieval windows and male and female symbols. Green morroco spine label, top edge gilt, ribbon marker. Presented in a green solander box, together with a booklet 'The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron' by selected writers. Set in Poliphilus. Entirely clean and sharp with no evidence of life outside the box.
Seller: Arches Bookhouse, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.98 + shipping
Description: 4to., First Edition thus, with 20 aquatints; full red morocco, sides and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt and green to geometric designed by Jeff Clements, gilt top, ribbon marker, a near fine copy housed in publisher's board slip-case lettered in gilt. EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES. With separate booklet 'The Happy Art of Narration, Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron' by Dryden, Coleridge, Hazlitt, Shelley and Leight Hunt.
Seller: Island Books, Thakeham, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Price: US$515.31 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: The Folio Society, 2007, First Edition Thus, Numbered Limited Edition. First Edition thus, bund in Wassa Goatskin. Bound in Nigerian goatskin, blocked with an abstract design by Jeff Clements, containing motifs of medieval windows and male and female symbols. Separate leather title label. Top-edge gilt. Silk ribbon marker. In the original buckram-bound solander box, together with a booklet 'The Happy Art of Narration: Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron' by selected writers. Translated by Richard Aldington and illustrated with 20 aquatints by John Buckland-Wright. Set in Poliphilus. 712 pages. Numbered Limited EDITION LIMITED TO 1750 COPIES of which this is number 1717. Provenance: no inscriptions or bookplates. Approximately 11 inches tall (Solander Box). Condition Report Externally Spine very good condition. Joints very good condition. Corners very good condition. Boards very good condition. Page edges very good condition. Solander box very good condition. See above and photos. Internally Hinges very good condition. Paste downs very good condition. End papers very good condition. Title very good condition. Pages very good condition. Binding very good condition. See photos. Publisher: see above. Publication Date: 2007 Binding: Hardback
Seller: Louis88Books (Members of the PBFA), Andover, United Kingdom
Giovanni Boccaccio. Decameron (The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio). The Folio Society, 2007.
Price: US$911.53 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Decameron (The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio). Translated by Translated by Richard Aldington. The Folio Society, London, 2007. Con l'aggiunta dell'opuscolo "The Happy Art of Narration" Readings of Boccaccio and the Decameron. Legatura in pelle di capra rossa. Disegni geometrici dorati sui piatti e sul dorso di Jeff Clements. Taglio dorato superiore. Cofanetto di custodia. Tiratura limitata di 1750 copie. Lingua inglese. 2500g. Pelle di capra rossa. Disegni geometrici dorati sui piatti e sul dorso di Jeff Clements
Seller: Seprian, Villastellone, TO, Italy