Heidelberg: Julius Groos, 1918. Engravings. First Edition--text in German facing Italian. Leather with blind- & gilt-stamping. 8vo, red leather with gilt stamping, illustrated with B&W engravings, 640 pages--German text & commentary with Dante's original Italian facing German translations. An attractive leather-bound, lightly illustrated, very scholarly edition of Dante's Divine Comedy..... More
New York: The Modern Library #108, 1946. Modern Library Reprint. Cloth. 12mo (7 1/8" x 5"), dark blue cloth with black labels and gold lettering on spine and front cover, Introduction by Bennett Cerf, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (not price-clipped) with white lettering against a black field," decorative endpapers, ix..... More
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, c.1958. Early English Translation. Cloth. 8vo, blue boards with cover bearing the title in white & gold lettering, translated from the Russian by G. A. Gorchakov, frontispiece B&W reproduction of Gogol's head, decorative title pages with titles in light brown and small B&W illustrations of..... More
New York: Collins, 1973. Hans Erni. First U.S. Edition. Cloth. Quarto (10 3/4" x 8 1/4"), black cloth with gold letttering on spine & delineation of man & woman on cover by Erni, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) by Hans ERNI, 16 pp. + [50] unnumbered pages, or 66 pages..... More
Florence: G. ORIOLI, 1929. Engravings. Lungamo Series, no. 1: The Story of Doctor Manente / Lasca, The Third Supper / 1 of 1000 copies on Lombardi paper [not numbered]. Light boards. 8vo (8" x 5 3/4"), thin tan boards with black lettering on spine and a fleur-de-lis stamped in an..... More
London: Printed for Robert Dutton, 1811. Engravings. Third Edition. Quarter leather and marbled boards. 8vo (8 1/2" x 5 1/2"), quarter leather with maroon label & gilt lettering over marbled boards, illustrated with 5 full-page engraved botanical plates and a few in-text engravings, xv, [xvi] + 487 + 4pp. Notes..... More
Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1954. Unknown. Early English Translation. Cloth. 8vo, grayish leather with blind-stamping and brown printing with small brown silhouette of weapon' cluster, translated from the Russian by Ivy and Tatyana Litvinov, illustrated with several full-page B&W woodcuts, Mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket of mounted officer, 162 numbered..... More