Croben (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Illustrated with photographs. Text and photographs very good. Unknown cover material with chips missing, tears, brittle with author and title. Small round stain, bottom, exterior pages. Gift Inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good -. Rare. English text. VG-. Hardcover, rebound original wraps, quarter leather with decorative paper over boards, no DJ, 69 pp, b&w photo illustrations, 12 mo, moderate edgewear with warping to covers and age toning to page edges, otherwise a clean and tight copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 70 pages. Includes: illustrations, maps. First edition, first printing. Many black & white photographs and a map. The story of a valley north of Florence which inspired Dante. Fine string tied soft covered book with a brown decorated vellum dust jacket. The only flaw is that the spine is very slightly darkened. A beautiful copy!

Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Photographs (illustrator). First Edition. 12mo, tooled and gilt-stamped quarter calf over decorative boards with small green, gold, and beige lozenges, engraved frontispiece sketch map of the Casentino [with depictions of buildings in Poppi, Romena, Castiglion Fibocchi, Bibbiena, and other sites], 28 B&W photographs of the region, stiff beige paper, with quotations from The Divine Comedy taken from the Temple Classics edition, copywrite Dent & Co., 70 numbered pages + [1] photo of the "Valley of the Casentino]. SCARCE with charming photographs of a Tuscan region frequented by the immortal poet. It was in this valley, for example, that the Florentine Guelphs battled the Arezzo Ghibellines on June 11, 1289. An excellent book for lovers of Dante, Italian history, or who just want an attractive gift. Quarter leather and marbled boards.