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Best.-Nr. ria9781998667918_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; ~ Collector's Edition ~ Laminated Hardback with Jacket ~In the midst of a city ravaged by the Black Death ten young nobles escape to a countryside villa determined to outlast the chaos through laughter wit and storytelling. Over ten hardcover
1920Best.-Nr. mon0000977143Chatto & Windus 1920. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. No edition remarks Pages clean and bright Binding firm Light wear to edges Some rubbing to top and bottom of spine. Chatto & Windus hardcover
Best.-Nr. 010347London UK: Navarre Society Unlimited Book. Illus. by Louis Chalon. Very Good. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Two volumes no date. Translated into English by J. M. Rigg. Green cloth with gilt cover and spine embossed letters and decoration. Volume 1: 332 pages. Volume 2: 404 pages. No marks. The of the spine in volume 1 has a 1 inch tear in the cloth of the spine. Still a very nice set of an Italian classic. Sold as a set of 2 volumes. Navarre Society Unlimited Hardcover
Best.-Nr. ria9781020379055_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; In The Decameron Giovanni Boccaccio weaves together tales of love adventure and wit in a masterpiece of Italian literature. Set against the backdrop of the Black Death the stories are told by a group of young men and women who have hardcover
Best.-Nr. ria9789355171207_inpPaperback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Decameron c.1351 is an entertaining series of one hundred stories written in the wake of the Black Death. The stories are told in a country villa outside the city of Florence by ten young noble men and women who are seeking to esc paperback
Best.-Nr. ria9781774379950_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; The Decameron is a collection of novellas containing 100 tales told by a group of seven young women and three young men sheltering in a secluded villa just outside Florence to escape the Black Death. To pass the evenings each member of hardcover
Best.-Nr. ria9798890968159_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; A complete edition of the hilarious bawdy irreverent masterpiece of medieval Italy-and an inspiration for the Netflix dark comedy The Decameron-in an acclaimed translation In the summer of 1348 as the Black Death ravages their city hardcover
Best.-Nr. ria9783849523848_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; This book hardcover is part of the TREDITION CLASSICS. It contains classical literature works from over two thousand years. Most of these titles have been out of print and off the bookstore shelves for decades. The book series is inte hardcover
1925Best.-Nr. 6000646Boni & Liveright 1925. Hardcover. Good/No jacket. Clara Tice. Two volumes. Illustrated by Clara Tice. #179/2000cc signed by the publishers. Covers shelfworn. Hinges cracked. Boni & Liveright hardcover
Best.-Nr. B9781020379055Hardback. New. hardcover
Best.-Nr. B9781015594845Hardback. New. hardcover
1961Best.-Nr. 179494Angus and Robertson 1961 The dust jacket has some wear with creases scuffs and tears on the edges. The page edges are a bit tanned. 597 pages. Books listed here are not stored at the shop. Please contact us if you want to pick up a book from Newtown. Hardcover. Good/Good. Illus. by Francis Broadhurst. Angus and Robertson unknown
Best.-Nr. B9798890968159Hardback. New. hardcover
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1921Best.-Nr. 587London: Navarre Society 1921. Translated by J.M. Rigg Navarre Society unknown
1949Best.-Nr. 2505010006Garden City Publishing Co 1949-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 10x8x7. Signed and numbered by the illustrator Rockwell Kent. No 943 of 1500 copies. 2 volume set. Hardcover in slip case. Good binding and cover. Clean unmarked pages. Some wear to slip case extremities. Garden City Publishing Co hardcover
1955Best.-Nr. 955T64London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. 1955. Cloth. Fine/Very Good Indeed. 7.5" by 5". None. A smart two volume set of this classic collection of short stories from Boccaccio from the Everyman's Library. Complete in two volumes. Everyman's Library romance collection volumes 845 and 846. With the vanishingly scarce original price-clipped dust wrappers. Each volume contains one plate being an illustration of the view of the Villa Di Poggio Gherardo or the Villa Palmieri. A collection of one-hundred short stories originally written in the fourteenth century told by a group of seven young women and three young men as they shelter in a villa outside of Florence to escape the Black Death. The tales range from the erotic to the tragic from tales of wit to moral life lessons. This work is considered an important record of Italian life at this time. Written by Giovanni Boccaccio an Italian writer poet and Renaissance humanist who was a known correspondent of Petrarch. Translated by James Macmullen Rigg a British barrister legal scholar and translator. In the original full cloth binding. Externally excellent. Original price-clipped dust wrappers are very smart with minor wear and light chipping to the extremities. Light sunning to the spines. Internally firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean throughout. Fine J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. hardcover
2003Best.-Nr. 202540New York: Penguin 2003. Second Edition; Third Printing. Softcover. Very Good in wraps. Penguin unknown
1898Best.-Nr. 103341privately printed 1898 Translated into English prose and verse by John Payne author of The Masque of Shadows translator of Francis Villon from the French and The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night from the Arabic. Printed by private subscription and for private circulation only. Quarter calf over marbled paper. Gilt top edge; other sides of text block deckled. Sewn bindings. Rubbing to edges of leather. Frontispiece portrait of Boccace Baccaccio in French Uncommon as a privately bound complete single volume. Clean text block. Quarter calf over marlbed paper. Rubbing at all edges. Gilt title intact. vi 617 pages. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. privately printed hardcover
1906Best.-Nr. 957P48London: Henry F. Bumpus 1906. Cloth. Good. 10.5" by 8". Louis Chalon. Louis Chalon's beautifully illustrated edition of Giovanni Boccaccio's magnum opus. Complete in two volumes.'The Decameron' is a collection of novellas by the Italian author Giovanni Boccaccio spilt into one-hundred tales. They're told from the point of view of ten young men and women hiding in a villa outside Florence trying to escape the Black Death.Volume I is illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates.Volume II is illustrated with four plates.Collated complete.Giovanni Boccaccio was an Italian writer and poet who was an important figure during the Renaissance.Illustrated by the French artist Louis Chalon. Many of his illustrations were used in periodicals including 'La Vie Parisienne' 'L'Illustration' and 'Figaro Illustre'. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally generally smart cloth is faded. Minor shelf wear to the head and tail of the spines and to the extremities with loss to the head of the spines. Light marks and some rubbing to the cloth. Spots to the endpapers. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and spotted. Good Henry F. Bumpus hardcover
1909Best.-Nr. 013719London: David Nutt 1909 Book. Good. Hardcover. 4 volume set. Vol 1 - cxxiv iv 230 2 pages. Vol 2 - xi i 243 3 pages. Vol 3 - xix i 311 3 pages. Vol 4 - xix i 247 3 pages. Pages mainly unopened in vols 3 and 4 some unopened in vol 2 all opened in vol1. Staining and browning to the end papers and the pages at the start and finish in each volume otherwise just light browning to pages throughout. In the original paper covered boards and cloth spines. The spines are faded and have some light wear. Bookplates to the front pastedowns of each volume.Part of the Tudor Translations series. A bulky set extra postage may be required to send them outside the UK. David Nutt hardcover
Best.-Nr. ria9781789431087_inpHardcover. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; “Giovanni Boccaccio’s work taught citizens how to maintain mental wellbeing in times of epidemics and isolation.” – The New Statesman. In 1348 the plague struck Florence with devasting fury—striking de hardcover
1949Best.-Nr. 188527New York: Garden City Publishing 1949. Complete Edition. Hardcover. Very Good in a Poor dust jacket. Small personalization on FEP. Front flap missing. Rubbing open tearing chipping along panel edges. Illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Garden City Publishing hardcover
1977Best.-Nr. 1-0393091325W W Norton & Co Inc 1977. Paperback. New. later printing edition. 352 pages. 8.50x5.25x0.75 inches. W W Norton & Co Inc paperback
1930Best.-Nr. 240522ROSY005003London: G P Putnam's Sons 1930. Hardcover. Good Condition. An attractive used set in brick red buckram with ornate gilt titles. Top edges gilt others uncut. Lavish illustrations by Jean de Bosschère. Former academic library books; ink stamps to endpapers including withdrawn stamps; call numbers in white on spines. Poseidon bookplates to frontpastedowns partially removed. Clean and unmarked contents. Firm tight bindings. Very sound and presentable overall.Publisher's note: Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348 Giovanni Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiece recaptures both the tragedies and comedies of medieval life and is surely one of the greatest achievements in the history of literature. Shipped Weight: 2-3 kilos. Category: Fiction; Plague Europe History ; Fiction; Storytelling ; Italian literature; Boschère Jean de 1878-1953; Boccaccio Giovanni 1313-1375; Add. Inventory No: 240522ROSY005003. . G P Putnam's Sons hardcover
