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Price: US$23.41 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1932. First Edition. 333 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with green lettering. Vol. II. Edited by N. M. Penser. Translated by Benedetto Croce. Pages are rough cut. Contains black and white illustrated plates. Pages are bright with moderate tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front paste-down, with water drops and a few nicks along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Plates are bright and clear, with slight tanning to edges. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with slight bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$23.41 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1932. First Edition. 309 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth boards with green lettering. Vol. I. Edited by N. M. Penzer. Translated by Benedetto Croce. Pages are rough cut. Pages are bright with moderate tanning and foxing to free endpapers and text block edges. Former owner's inscription to front free endpaper and paste-down, with a few nicks and creases along text block edge. Occasional thumb-marking present throughout. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with minor bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Heavy tanning to spine and edges, with visible crushing to spine ends.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$26.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 333pp. Green boards, black lettering on spine and front board. Text is clean on unmarked, uncreased pages. Hinges are intact, textblock is square with lightly bumped corners. Moderate+ overall shelf/timewear, boardwear, board edge and cornerwear, some fraying at head and foot of outer spine, foxing and spotting on inner boards and textblock edges, pageblush and spotting throughout, PO label on inner front.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece, lxxv, 309 pp; plate. Original cloth, large 8vo. Very Good, without dust jacket.
Seller: Ted Kottler, Bookseller, Redondo Beach, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback. Very good in publisher's black cloth with title in gilt on spine. Volume I has a tiny white mark top corner of front board. Frontispiece is tissue-guarded. Pp.lxxv,309. Volume 2 has 14 black and white illustrations. Pp.vi, 333. No ownership inscription in either volume. Both volumes are now protected in removable covers.
Seller: Blacket Books, PBFA, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.42 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition thus. Hardback. 2 vols. Small quartos. lxxv, 309; vi, 333pp. Original dark blue cloth with gilt spine titles. Light shelf wear, spine ends slightly faded, otherwise a very good indeed set in near very good, slightly edge torn and faded dust jacket with chipping at spine ends.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$70.42 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bliue cloth boards, 7½ x 10 inches, gilt lettering to spine. Vol 1 pp 309., Vol 2 (includes index) pp 333. Pages roughly cut. Volume one has frontispiece with tissue guard, showing portrait of Basile. Spines (and edges of volume 2) faded, Volume One slightly rubbed at corners; Vol. 2 lightly bumped. 'Translated from the Italian of Benedetto Croce, Now edited with a Preface, Notes and Appendixes b N. M. Penzer. With Portrait Frontispiece, twelve reproductions of title-pages and other illustrations, together with a contemporary plan of the City of Naples in Two Volumes.' Tiny and very light marks to covers. Good, clean, tight, no inscriptions.
Seller: Ripping Yarns, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$87.52 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: LXXV, 309 (3) S. VI (II), 333(3) S. OLn.-Bde. (obere Ecken mit kleiner Stauchspur, Rücken verblasst, ein Deckel mit Lichtrand).
Seller: Versand-Antiquariat Rainer Richner, Suhr, Switzerland
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Description: VG- to VG+, Vol. I: slight wear head/foot of spine, corners very lightly rubbed, spine darkened with small white spot near bottom edge, offsetting to title page (caused by frontispiece) , small heavily rubbed spot rear pastedown exposing board beneath near middle of spine; Vol. II: minor wear head/foot of spine, spine darkened, but overall a tight solid sound set. ; Vols. 4to, green cloth with black lettering front covers and spines. Vol. I: frontispiece, 309pp. Vol. II: 333pp. , appendixes, list of illustrations to Vol. II. Translated from the Italian of Benedetto Croce; Now edited with a Preface, Notes and Appendixes by N. M. Penzer; With a Frontispiece, twelve reproductions of title-pages and other illustrations, together with a contemporary plan of the City of Naples In Two Volumes.
Seller: Old Editions Book Shop, ABAA, ILAB, North Tonawanda, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$128.03 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st Edition 1932. Now edited with a preface, notes and appendixes by N. M. Penzer. With a portrait frontispeice, 12 reproductions of title-pages and other illustrations, together with a contemporary plan of the city of Naples in two volumes. Books are very good and bright. Spines a little uneven/faded. Contents good. The wrappers are very good++ and bright. Light age toning to spine. Heavy books. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 18408
Seller: Lasting Words Ltd, Northampton, UK, United Kingdom
Price: US$136.74 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 0 pages; Description: 2 v. Front. (port. ) plates, plan, facsims. 26 cm. Subjects: The Pentamerone of Giambattista Basile. Language: English. [complete in 2 volumes]. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$160.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. ; 0 pages; Description: 2 v. Front. (port. ) plates, plan, facsims. 26 cm. Subjects: The Pentamerone of Giambattista Basile. Language: English. [complete in 2 volumes]. 2 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$192.04 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Now edited with a preface, notes and appendixes by N. M. Penzer. With aportrait frontispeice, 12 reproductions of title-pages and other illustrations, together with a contemporary plan of the city of naples in two volumes. Spines and edges of DJs discoloured, some light wear and chipping to DJs, else tidy. Apart from very light general wear to boards and foxing to endpapers, books in very good condition, pp excellent, plates clean and bright. Size: 4to
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom