Decameron, Signed (56 results)

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. good clean flat paperback with only light general wear. some light edge rubbing. inscribed by author on title page. title page also has some child's scribble marks in ink. pages clean and unmarked. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Signed by Author This softcover book is square and tight. The wrappers are bright and pristine. There are no creases or folds to the spine. The pages are clean, having no markings or folds. No jacket as issued. No remainder mark. Not ex-lib. Signed by Dean DuBois with inscription, "To ______, Best Wishes. Enjoy. Dean". Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed and signed by Dean DuBois and dated 7/28/93. Very clean book. Pictures on request. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Good. 1998. First Edition. 346 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Flat signed by author to front free endpaper. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Condition: Good. 2007. First Published in GB. 329 pages. Signed by the author. Pictorial dust jacket over green paper covered boards. Flat signed by author to title page. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Unclipped jacket has light edge wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Como Nuevo. Dust Jacket Condition: Como Nuevo. Novela (illustrator). Grandes Genios de la Literatura Universal. Vol. 20. ExLibris.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Como Nuevo. Dust Jacket Condition: Como Nuevo. Novela (illustrator). Grandes Genios de la Literatura Universal. Vol. 19. ExLibris.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Series: Letteratura Italiana: Studi e Testi. 78p slim booklet, white cover a little browned or foxed, author inscription, well preserved, text clean and binding tight Language: Italian.

406pp. 12mo Illustrated with linecut drawings by Leo Hershfield Pictorial gray boards First edition. SIGNED presentation to Lucy and Jim. Selections by C.S. Forester, Alexander Woolcott, Barry Benefield, William Cowper Brann, Ambrose Bierce, Westbrook Pegler, H.L. Mencken, Mark Twain, Ring W. Lardner, Frank Sullivan, Robert Benchley et al Cloth lightly soiled: VG/no dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Potomac, Maryland: Scripta Humanistica, 1986. INSCRIBED / SIGNED by C. Gariano directly on the title page. SIGNED copies are SCARCE. Fine condition but for a dogear to one corner of two leaves. NO chips. NO tears. NO rubbing. NO fading. Sharp corners. Bright, shiny, clean, square and tight. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. NOT a library discard. Scripta Humanistica The Classic for the Modern Reader #28. Foreword by the author. Bound in the original gilt-stamped blue cloth. From the publisher: "Perceptive and well-written adaptation of Boccaccio's masterpiece, The Decameron.". INSCRIBED / SIGNED by C. Gariano. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed). Hardcover. Fine condition/No dust jacket, as issued. 8vo. (vi), 243pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. 1st ed? (No additional printings listed).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Limited . Signed and Inscribed by the Illustrator, on the limitation page. Limited edition to 350 copies, this is number 208. Signed by the previous owner on the front free end paper page. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. Publication of 553 pages. Deckle edge. There is gilt on the top edge of the book. The boards are rather worn and marked. There are a few light marks within the body of the book. The text is legible. The binding is strong. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Signed.

Hardcover. Limited Edition. Octavo. 9" x 6". 554pp Blue cloth over gray boards. paper title label to spine. This de Luxe edition is limited to 350 copies of which this is #82 and is signed by the illustrator Thomas Derrick. 12 tipped in color plates. Spotted staining to bottom of spine and some staining to back bottom cover.

Hardback. Condition: nrFine. Dust Jacket Condition: VG DW. 1st Thus (Late Issue). Dated (1) 1946 and (2) 1950 but matching editions. . Pale blue cloth lettered in gold on spine (no decoration). Orange "Romance" DW has black and white "rosette" signed ER on front cover. Rear cover states "OVER 980 VOLUMES". June 1950 catalogue in (2). Clean entire dws are a little tender over spines.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Two volume set. Quarto. 382pp. Dark red cloth, black spine labels in slipcase. Translated from the Italian by Frances Winwar. Introduction by Burton Rascoe. Limited to 1500 sets signed by the designer T. M. Cleland of which this is copy 972. Slipcase a bit chipped and worn a the corners. Spine label of volume one is lightly chipped.

Condition: Sehr gut. Limited Edition. Copy 154 of 1500. Signed by artist. 24 x 17 cm. Vol. 1: xvii, 309 pages / Vol.2: xv, pages 310 to 562. Both volumes complete with all Plates, as listed. Original marroon cloth. Gilt titles on spine. Light grey end papers. Top edge gilt. Fore edges deckle. Very good condition. Minor shelf wear only. See images.

First Edition. Illustrated by Gillian Barlow. Pp. [32], illustrated in colour throughout; demy 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards; price-clipped dust wrapper; Philomel Books, New York, 1990. First edition. *Inscribed and signed by the author on verso of title page. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No jacket. Clara Tice (illustrator). #1750/2000cc, signed by the publishers, Boni and Liveright. Illustrated by Clara Tice. bCovers worn, with sunned spines. Glue residue on the front flyleafs. Hinges cracked. As-Is.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed. illustrated by Clara Tice, translated by John Payne, signed by the publisher. 2-volume set, covers show minor wear and rubbing, pages tanned and clean.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition Thus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Two volumes bound in brick red cloth with black leather spine labels stamped in gilt, 4to, 382pp in two books. #477 of an edition of 1,500 copies designed and decorated by T. M. Cleland and printed at the press of A. Colish, New York. Signed by Designer T.M. Cleland on colophon page (vol. 2).

2 vols: 200+382pp. 4to. Original red cloth in defective black slipcase. All edges coloured. Black and white illustrations. A very good copy. Signed by the designer and decorator, T.M. Cleland.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. [Modern Literature] INSCRIBED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[6] 329 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author in blue ink to title page: 'To Myra | with best wishes | Fay Weldon | August 2007.' Publisher's green paper over boards, with silver titles to spine and orange endpapers. With the dust-jacket illustrated by Tsuneda Tomoko, priced at £14.99. Light spotting to top edge, otherwise a crisp fine copy. A series of 10 tales told over 10 days by a group of high-achieving women gathered at a spa over Christmas and New Year. Signed.

rilegato. Condition: Good. 1. In 16', pelle ed. con sovrac. in acetato, astuccio mancante, taglio sup. azzurro, pp. LXXVII+1239, a cura di Vittore Branca; dedica autografa del curatore  alla prima bianca(foto). volume in buono stato, privo di strappi o mancanze, minimi segni del tempo, prima edizione. ***Books dated over 70 years old are not exportable, please do not order.***. Book.

Hardcover. Two small folio volumes (9" x 11-3/4") bound in burnt sienna cloth with leather spine labels. Newly translated from the Italian by Frances Winwar with an introduction by Burton Rascoe. Designed and decorated by T. M. Cleland, the first book of the press featuring this master American designer's work. Copy #938 of 1500 SIGNED by the designer. Bookplate on each front pastedown. Bump to tops of each spine with paper split to rear hinge of the second volume. Very Good in a Fair slipcase lacking the back edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Sehr gut. Erste Ausgabe. XI, 175 S. Orig.-Leinenband. Mit eigenhändiger, persönlicher Widmung des Autors. Ein schönes, gut erhaltenes Exemplar in einwandfreiem Zustand (Buchhandelspreis Euro 109,95). Widmung des Verfassers.

First Edition. THE DECAMERON OF GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO, Limited Editions Club, 1930, first edition thus, 2 vols., a fine set in worn slip-case missing the spine. 1/1,500 copies SIGNED by artist T. M. Cleland.

Decorative Cloth. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1st Edition 1925. The authors ownership name to endpaper. First publication of his story. From the library of John Edgell Rickword, his wife Beatrix and finally by decent to their daughter Dr Jane Grubb. Small bookplate detailing the provenance attached to each volume. Most of the his books went to institutions after his death so this book is rare thus. John Edgell Rickword, MC 1898-1982 was an English poet, critic, journalist and literary editor. He became one of the leading communist intellectuals active in the 1930s. After joining the army he saw front-line action in France as a subaltern in the Royal Berkshire Regiment. He was wounded twice?losing the sight of one eye?and he won the Military Cross for distinguished service. After the armistice Rickword was invalided out of the army. The following year he went up to Pembroke College, Oxford, to read French literature. His first collection of verse, Behind the Eyes (1921), contains similar styles poetry to be found in Sassoon's war verse. Additionally, these poems, including the much-anthologized "Trench Poets," "Winter Warfare," and "The Soldier addresses his Body," were part of Rickword's already distinctive style. In the 1930's he took up literary work in London. He reviewed for the Times Literary Supplement, which led to his celebrated review of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land. He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1934, and became increasingly active in political work during the period of the Spanish Civil War; while still writing poetry. During the second world war years Rickword wrote some superb social and literary criticism, including studies of the war poets of World War I, John Milton, and English radical thinkers of the 19th century. Toward the end of the war he become editor of Our Time, a literary review that tried to create bridges between the arts and common people. Later he became Editor of Our Time, the Communist review, from 1944 to 1947, working with Arnold Rattenbury and David Holbrook. Rickword had an upbeat view at the time on the possibilities of popular culture and radical politics, and the circulation rose as he broadened the publication's scope from popular political poetry. Rickword's eyesight failed completely in his last years, though he was working on his memoirs up to his death. He died on March 15, 1982. Rickword's actual contribution to the development of English poetry is undervalued even now, in spite of the fact that several selections from and collections of his poems have appeared at regular intervals since the end of World War II.The reputation of Rickword as a poet has been overshadowed to some extent by his better-known achievements as critic and editor. And yet Rickword the poet?as much as Rickword the brilliant literary and social critic or Rickword the outstanding editor?has been one of the models of creative intelligence in British culture since the end of World War I. Rickword's work stands foursquare in English tradition, but it is in that tradition revolutionized by the same shaping forces of modernism that transformed Eliot's poetry. Rickword, with an intelligence and sensibility fully responsive to both French poetry and to English, opened up new paths for English poetry during the decade after World War I. According to Rickword, "to himself the poet should be in the first place a man, not an author." He certainly followed his own advice. As David Holbrook wrote (about Rickword's most caustic poetry of the late 1920s): "It strikes home, because underlying it is the tragic acceptance of man's situation, and the governed urbanity, civilisation and joy of a sensitive, responsible poet." The bulk of Edgells's archive resides at Manchester University library but the main part of the collection which was deposited by his friend David Holbrook is at Downing College Cambridge Archive. Book is good++ and bright. Edge rubbing to cloth/paper. Spine age toned. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref16865. Signed by Author(s).

BOCCACCIO, Giovanni. The Decameron. Newly Translated from the Italian by Frances Winwar. With an Introduction by Burton Rascoe. Illustrated by T.M. Cleland. Two vols. Orig. cloth with leather labels. Folio. N.Y.: The Limited Editions Club, 1930. Limited to 1,500 copies signed by the artist. A fine set, lacking slipcase. Signed.

Couverture rigide. Condition: Très bon. Edition originale. Poids: 470gr. Dédicacé par l'auteur.

Gradassi, Jean (illustrator). Etat : très bon état, minimes frottements aux bords des emboîtages, sinon comme neuf. Illustrations : lettrines, culs-de-lamp et encadrements en couleurs et 40 planches hors-texte sous serpente (dont une double page et 10 frontispices pour les journées) par Jean Gradassi. Reliure : pleine peau maroquinée, plats ornés de scènes frappées à froid d'après l'artiste, dorures, sous emboîtages bordés, tranches de tête dorées, pages de garde satinées. Volumes : 5 volumes. Format : in-4. Pages : 263 pp., 2 ff.; 236 pp., 2 ff.; 177 pp., 2 ff. et 216 pp., 5 ff. Editeur : Le Chant Des Spheres Editions d'Art Sefer. Date : 1976 - 1978. Jean Boccace, Le Décaméron. Traduction complète par Antoine Le Maçon. Illustré par Jean Gradassi "le miniaturiste". 5 volumes. Nice, Editions d'art Sefer 1976 - 1978. Edition numérotée, signé par l'artiste. Magnifique édition de luxe, premier tirage des miniatures de Gradassi. Tirage limité à 1808 (total 2500) exemplaires numérotés sur Vélin de Lana filigrané Sefer au Léopard, celui-ci no. 2261. Avec un envoi signé de Jean Gradassi et le certificat d'authenticité. Les illustrations hors-texte ont été réalisées par les ateliers de sérigraphie et pochoir Arts et Couleurs à partir de sélections et découpes manuelles. Jean Gradassi (1907-1989) est un illustrateur, graveur, miniaturiste, maquettiste, décorateur français, ayant travaillé sous la direction artistique de René Jullien de "DECORS DE PARIS".

First Edition. THE DECAMERON, Vols. 1 & 2, Boni & Liveright, 1925, first edition, front inner hinge starting on the second volume, else a tight, very good set with 48 illustrations by Clara Tice. 1/2,000 copies SIGNED by the pubishers. Translated by John Payne.