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Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Verona: Limited Editions Club, 1932.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Folio, woven cloth in rose and buff by Fortuny of Venice with a gold-lettered linen spine label, slightly soiled. Limited Editions Club edition. One of 1500 copies signed by the designer. --- From the library of Milton C. Rose, with the patron of the arts and prominent attorney's bookplate on the front pastedown. Rose (1904-2002), a onetime law partner of Richard Nixon and John N. Mitchell in the firm Nixon Mudge Rose Alexander & Mitchell, was instrumental in bringing Nixon into the firm in 1963 after he had lost the election for governor of California. Rose's collection of art was donated to the Cleveland Art Institute and to the Williams College Art Museum, which has a room bearing his name. A significant work with a most distinguished provenance.
Seller: North Star Rare Books & Manuscripts, Sheffield, MA, U.S.A.
Dante Alighieri. The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1932.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: One of 1500 numbered copies signed by Hans Mardersteig. Hardcover, bound in decorative cloth with slipcase. The slipcase with a glue repair to the top edge; the book unmarked.
Seller: Moroccobound Fine Books, IOBA, Lewis Center, OH, U.S.A.
DANTE, Alighieri. THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1932.
Price: US$343.80 + shipping
Description: Folio (8" x 12-3/4") bound in full cloth specially woven in rose and buff by Fortuny of Venice with a gold- stamped linen spine label. Translated and annotated by Melville Best Anderson with an introduction by Arthur Livingston. Designed, printed on rag mould-made paper, and bound by Hans Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni in Verona, Italy. Copy #623 of 1500 SIGNED by the designer on the colophon page. Handsome book, beautifully printed. Fine in a soiled, Very Good slipcase with some splitting but intact
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$549.06 + shipping
Description: in-4, pp. XXI, (1), 491, (3, legatura editoriale in tela con ramages floreali, titolo in oro al dorso. Rara edizione in tiratura limitata a 1500 copie, esemplare 234 (firmato da Hans Mardersteig). Tradotta in inglese da Melville Best Anderson, con una prefazione di Arthur Livingston. Edita a Verona per "The limited editions club New York" nel 1932, fu stampata dallo stesso Mardersteig dai torchi dell'Officina Bodoni. Ottimo esemplare. Non in Schmoller.
Seller: Libreria Antiquaria Pregliasco, Torino, Italy