New York: The Modern Library. Very Good in Very Good- dust jacket. 1955. Hardcover. Text is clean. Cover shows light normal wear. Dust jacket shows edgewear chipping at ends of spine. Spine of DJ is sunfaded. ; Toldeano binding style '8' Kent Endpapers Dust Jacket style 'i' listing 380 titles. Third of Three Dust Jacket artwork releases. Dust jacket designed by Salter. ; The Modern Library; Vol. 71.4; 830 pages . The Modern Library hardcover
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag 1921. 12mo. pp. xcvi 1027 in a limp red cloth binding splitting along the hinges front cover torn on the inside. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1921. hardcover
International Collectors Library. Good. 1930. Hardcover. A Good Read ships from Toronto and Niagara Falls NY - customers outside of North America please allow two to three weeks for delivery. Light edgewear tanning to text. ; International Collectors Library Edition; 8.10 X 5.60 X 1.60 inches . International Collectors Library hardcover
<p>Catania Niccolò Giannotta 1911. Soft Cover. In Italian. 79 pages 19 cm."Esaminamo ora per dovere di storici il contenuto del poema; ciò servirà a dirci molte cose: in qual modo un cinquecentista rifoggiò e quindi intendeva il pensiero boccaccesco quali elementi a lui parve opportuno stralciare da l'opera del trecentista e quali ad essa aggiungere."pag4es 6-7 ; printed brown paper wrappers as issued; part unopened; spine ends chipped. Stock# 32352.</p> Niccolò Giannotta, Editore paperback
Giulio Einaudi. Used - Good. 1950. Octavo. Two volume set. 542 pp 421 pp. Text in Italian. Some shelf wear to wraps with creasing and chipping to spines. Inscriptions to front wrap of first volume. Some pages uncut. Altogether a set in Good condition. Subject: Medieval Literature General. Giulio Einaudi paperback
<p>"Arte della Stampa" in Firenze mcmxiij 1913. Soft Cover. 19pages 23 cm. Brief overview of the reading of the first part of the narrative poem or comedy Edito a cura di G. Vandelli e L. Casali "Per le Nozze di Teresa Bertoldi con Umberto Monico Tenente di Vascello." "Il testo che qui si pubblica ᨠtratto dall'autografo boccaccesco che si conserva nella The text herein published is taken from the Boccaccian manuscript in the Biblioteca Capitolare di Toledo." Stock# 41344. Fine faux-vellum paper covers slightly soiled but crisp; title-page printed in red & black. Italian literature.</p> paperback
University of California Press. Used - Like New. 1983. Cloth publisher's cloth slipcase 949 pp. Titles in red and black. Slight shelf wear to slipcase. Like new. Subject: Renaissance Literature. University of California Press hardcover
Referencia librero : Q06353 ISBN : 0520035577 9780520035577
Societa Tipografica De Classici Italiani. Used - Very Good. 1803. Full contemporary vellum octavos lxiii 516; vii 526; 416; 312 151 iv pp. Red and green levant labels on spine gitl stamp with decorative gilt tooling on spines. Azure flecked edges. Calf is mildly worn with some chipping to all volumes and very large chips missing from rear panels of volumes 3 and 4. Spine panels also mildly worn with a few small chips and scuffs. Foxing per usual to pages and calf. Overall a good reading copy. Subject: Bindings. Societa Tipografica De Classici Italiani hardcover
<p>Londra i.e. Livorno MDCCCII Masi 1802. Hard Cover. Four volumes: xxiii 304; 411; 324; 308 pages; 15 cm. "Vita di Giovanni Boccaccio. scritta da Filippo Villan" vol. 1 pp. ix-xvi. See Parenti Luoghi Falsi p. 127. Bound in a later 19th-century binding with blue cloth spine; very good. Stock#SmOB013.</p> [Masi MDCCCII hardcover
<p>NY Modern Library c1955. Hard Cover. xxxviii 666 pages; 18.5 cm. This translation was first published in 1930 by the Limited Editions Club. Stock#39784. dj chipped worn; good.</p> Modern Library hardcover
<p>New York F. Ungar Pub. Co. c1963. Hard Cover. 103 pages 20 cm. Introduction by Francesco Basetti-Sani. Series: Milestones of thought in the history of ideas. The life of Dante by Giovanni Boccaccio was "corrected" by Leonardo Bruno. A passage from the Life of Dante by Filippo Villani. Stock# 35155. Vg/ dj vg.</p> Frederick Ungar Pub. Co. hardcover
<p>London Navarre Society 1926. Hard Cover. lix 356 p. 23 cm. "This Limited Edition of 'Amorous Fiammetta' is modernized from the only English translation made by Bartholomew Yong and printed by John Charlwood in 1587 of which only four copies are known to exist. Printed by the Riverside Press Edinburgh upon paper of fine quality specially made for the Navarre Society." Stock# 39783. Vg/ no dj. Italian literature poetry verse.</p> Navarre Society hardcover
<p>New York Clarkson N. Potter 1974. First Edition. Hard Cover. xvii 166 pages illus. 26 cm. Title continues: Written in Italian by Giovanni Boccaccio in his book Filocolo. First turned into English by H. G. in 1566 and now refashioned and illustrated by Harry Carter. Henry Grantham was the 1566 translator. Harry Carter 1901-1982 " refashioned " the text prepared the many woodcuts and designed the book. Stock# 43809. Vg/ dj vg but repaired.</p> Clarkson N. Potter hardcover
Referencia librero : 43809 ISBN : 0517514923 9780517514924
<p>Philadelphia UPa Press 1929/ N.Y. Octagon 1978. Hard Cover. ix 505 pages 23.5 cm. "No other work of Boccaccio combines so varied a range of interest as the Filostrato." The source for Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde.Stock# 31179. Vg/ no dj.</p> University of Pennsylvania Press / Octagon hardcover
Referencia librero : 31179 ISBN : 0374907307 9780374907303
<p>Firenze : Adriano Salani 1934. Hard Cover. 755 1 pages frontis. port. 16 cm. Series: Collezione Salani. I classici# ; 99. Spine title:: Edizione Florentia. Boccaccio's "mino" writings would be considered major if he had not written the Decameron. Contents: Prefazione La Caccia di Diana La Fiammetta L'Ameto o Commedia delle Ninfe Fiorentine Il Ninfale Fiesolano Rime Il Corbaccio Vita di Dante Alighieri. Stock# 43291. Vg white cloth binding although paper aging / no dj.</p> Adriano Salan hardcover
<p>NY Modern Library 1955. xxxviii 666 pages; 18.5 cm. Series: The Modern Library of the World's Best Books 71. Francesca Vinciguerra who had changed her name to Frances Winwar first published this translation in 1930 in The Limited Editions Club. With pencil underlinings and annotations of Prof. Walter R. Davis. Stock#102201. Vg / no dj.</p> Modern Library
<p>In Venetia Appresso Gabriel Iolito de Ferrarii M.D.XLII 1542. Hard Cover. 3 4-CII i leaves signatures A-N8 last two leaves blank; 15 cm. The first of many editions published by Giolito. Title within woodcut ornamental border containing printer's mark at foot; another printer's mark on verso of last leaf. Bound in contemporary limp vellum; title-page damaged and rebacked with loss to woodcut border. Stock#SmOB025.</p> Appresso Gabriel Iolito de Ferrarii, M.D.XLII hardcover
<p>Milano Sonzogno. Hard Cover. Two volumes. 340 383 pages 18 cm. Stock# 39786. Publisher's maroon embossed boards stamped in gold rebacked in red binder's cloth a bit stiff the paper darkened; withal good.</p> Sonzogno hardcover
<p>New York Walter Black 193. Hard Cover. 8 p.l. 528 pages 19.5 cm. Walter Black published inexpensive reprints of classics sold through the mail. Stock# 39782. Good/ no dj.</p> Walter Black hardcover
<p>New York Columbia University Press 1960. Hard Cover. xvii 149 pages illus. 22 cm. Boccaccio's novella of love written when he was about 35. Translation based on the Italian text of Vincenzo Pernicone. Bibliography: p. 148-149. Stock# 36849. Vg/ dj good has tears.</p> Columbia University Press hardcover
<p>Torino Petrini 1964. Collezione Scolastica di Classici Italiani. Soft Cover. 445 pages plates; 21 cm. Series: Collezione Scolastica di Classici Italiani. The notes explain medieval usage for modern Italian students. Stock#37524. Vg a few marginal pencil notes/ paper.</p> Petrini / Collezione Scolastica di Classici Italiani paperback
NY: Boar's Head Books. VG in G DJ. 1949. Owner name fep. DJ chipped & taped to book. Two novels of Italian life during the Renaissance. . Boar's Head Books unknown
NY: Blue Ribbon. G. 1931. Reprint. Brown binding black & gilt decoration & lettering edge wear spine sunned blue & white illustrated endpapers. . Blue Ribbon unknown
<p>London George Allen and Unwin 1964. Hard Cover. xxxix 257 pages 22 cm. Biographies of 104 famous women written in the years 1355-1359. A blend of mythology history and fantasy. Stock #29910. Vg/ no dj.</p> George Allen and Unwin hardcover
<p>Milano: Garzanti 1980 c1974. Soft Cover. Two volumes: xxxiv 966 pages portrait; 18 cm. Series: I Grandi Libri 69-70. The Quaglio edition is a good scholarly text of the Decameron. Bibliography p. xxvi-xxxiv. Stock#102182. Vg / soft cover.</p> Garzanti paperback
<p>London Published for the Trade. Hard Cover. 407 pages front. port. plates; 20 cm. The Payne translation was the standard for decades. But this sloppy printing lacks the Flameng illustrations. Stock#46644. Good / no dj.</p> Published for the Trade hardcover
<p>New Brunswick N. J. Rutgers University Press 1963. Hard Cover. xxxviii 257 pages illus.; 24 cm. Translated from De Claris Mulieribus. Biographies of 104 famous women written in the years 1355-1359. A blend of mythology history and fantasy. Stock#42199. Vg / no dj. Guarino Guido Aldo 1925- editor.</p> Rutgers University Press hardcover
<p>New York Blue Ribbon c1931. Hard Cover. 10 p.l. 528 pages front. illus. 20.5 cm. Woodcuts in the Art Deco style by Steele Savage. Stock# 39781. Vg/ dj good</p> Blue Ribbon hardcover
<p>Torino Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese 1944. Hard Cover. 277 pages. Collezione di Classici italiani 24. An anthology of works by Francesco da Barberino Boccaccio Jacopo Passavanti Franco Sacchetti Ser Giovanni Fiorentino and Giovanni Sercambi. Earlier editions of this book are credited to Giuseppe Morpurgo but I believe he was a jew and in still-fascist Turin in 1944 that got him off the title-page. Stock#39016. Vg/ no dj.</p> Unione Tipografico-Editrice Torinese hardcover
<p>Rizzoli Milano 1950. Soft Cover. Two volumes: 415 421-790 pages; 16 cm. An inexpensive edition of the Italian text. Stock#39785. Good/ paper.</p> Rizzoli paperback
London: Henry G. Bohn 1861. Corners a little rubbed; a little wear to tail of spine; occasional foxing; 545p portrait Size: 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6�" - 7�" tall. Henry G. Bohn Hardcover
Liberal Arts Press NY c1956. Library of Liberal Arts #82. Soft Cover. l 214 p. index; 20.5 cm. Title continues: of Boccaccio's Genealogia Deorum Gentilium in an English Version with Introductory Essay and Commentary by Charles G. Osgood. First published 1930 Princeton. Translation "based on Hecker's text as published in his Boccaccio-Funde Brunswick 1902 from an autograph which embodies Boccaccio's latest known revisions of his text". Paper; spine & cover edges browned; occasional copious pencil underlining & notations; good. stock#3036. Liberal Arts Press, NY [c1956]. Library of Liberal Arts #82 paperback
Cleveland OH: The World Publishing Company. Very Good. 1947. Paperback. Missing DJ. ; Glued binding. Red Cloth over boards. With black tidemark on the front board. Book has appearance of light use with no easily noticeable wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 704 pages; During the pestilence of 1348 seven ladies and three gentlemen of Florence took refuge in the Italian countryside where they spent ten days travelling from one luxurious country house to another idling away the hours by talking reading making love and telling stories. It was a disastrous period in the history of Florence but the group made a most comfortable best of the unfortunate conditions under which they found themselves living. . The World Publishing Company paperback
Stamperia Blanchon Parma. 1812 - 1813. Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. 6 volumes bound as 3. Hardcover black qtr leather & corners w/ marbled paper-covered boards marbled endpapers all edges gilt. All vols. prev. owner's bookplate exteriors moderately rubbed w/ leather edges showing through to underlying brown as expected papered edges w/ small nicks at bottom edge; light foxing to flyleaves & very occasionally faintly within; Volume I/II pale 1-inch brown stain to inner margin of 2 pgs. not affecting text. Volume V/VI has 1/4-inch nick to rear board. Overall solid vg condition for their age bindings & hinges quite tight contents clean gilt edges bright. 242 & 335 pp.; 299 & 248 pp.; 244 & 346 pp. Incl's historical introductions and a biography of Boccaccio by Girolamo Tiraboschi. Stamperia Blanchon, Parma. hardcover
New York: Illustrated Editions Company. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1931. Hardcover. DJ has edge chipping and tearing. . Illustrated Editions Company hardcover
Napoli: Alberto Marotta Editore 1966. Hardcover. Near new condition covers bright text clean & binding tight / near new bright and crisp dust jackets. Size: 9.75"x12.25" 3vs. red cloth with gilt lettering and decorations profusely illustrated throughout in colour text in Italian. Alberto Marotta Editore hardcover
Johns Hopkins University Press 1974. Hardcover. Very good plus condition with text clean & binding tight without dust jacket. 665pp. 7-1/8" X 10-3/8" In Italian. Johns Hopkins University Press hardcover
Referencia librero : 159069 ISBN : 0801814650 9780801814655
University of California Press 1982. Hardcover. Fine clean & tight condition / Fine box / published without dust jacket. 3 vols boxed. University of California Press hardcover
Referencia librero : 156647 ISBN : 0520035577 9780520035577
Garden City NY: Garden City Pub. Co. 1949. 1949 562pp trans. by Richard Aldington cloth slight soiling to eps owner's name to fep dj w/ chips wear & tears. Cloth. Good /Fair. Illus. by Rockwell Kent. Garden City Pub. Co. Hardcover
New York: Rarity Press 1931. very good hardcover without dust jacket. 1931 edition. Some general cosmetic damage to exterior of book. Wear to edges of covers. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Rarity Press Hardcover
Garden City: Garden City Books 1949. Very good hard cover. No dust jacket. Some wear to cover. . Hard Cover. Very Good/No Dust Cover. Illus. by Kent Rockwell. Garden City Books Hardcover
London: A. H. Bullen 1903. Very Good condition two volume set plus supplement The supplement consists of scarce additional plates to the Decameron; plates by Louis Chalon Published 1903. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Dustjacket. Illus. by Chalon Louis. Two Volumes. A. H. Bullen
New York: Columbia University Press 1960. Very Good with DJ 1960 hardcover. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Engravings By Angela Conner. Columbia University Press