Lanza Frances (4 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket has light edgewear, tanning on spinecover. Boards have minor shelfwear. Pages are clean, text has no markings, binding is sound. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Mass Market Paperback. Condition: Good. First U.S. Edition. First US edition, mass market paperback, binding is weakening with cracks starting between pages at the back but remains solid overall, book has a shallow skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and corners with a very short tear to the head of the spine, a small spot of faint soiling to the lower corner of the front cover and first few pages, thin reading creases to the hinges, and some mild rubbing with a touch of edge wear to the covers, otherwise a solid Good only copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hard cover book in good condition with price-clipped dust jacket in good- condition. Possibly ex library with remains of large sticker to front free endpaper. Significant shelfwear to all edges of jacket with chips and creasing. Jacket faded to spine and slightly grubby. 4to. 75pp.

First American edition. First American edition. Signed by Alberto Giovannetti on the front free endpaper. 288 pp. Bound in publisher's black boards with red cloth backstrip, gilt spine lettering. Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket with sunned spine panel, worn at tips, unclipped ($14.95). Rare signed. The first novel by Italian Monsignor Alberto Giovanetti, Vatican historian and observer to the United Nations for the Holy See from 1964 to 1973. A Cold War espionage novel first published in Italy as Requiem per una spia in 1978.