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: 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 Melbourne Auckland Johannesburg: Rider, 1986. Chinese text faces English translations. First Edition. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, red cloth with silver lettering on spine; archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) depicting an 18th century Chinese fortune-teller at his deskwork; illustrated with Hexagram symbols above English text with Chinese symbols..... More
New York: Ballantine Books, 1996. Chinese text faces English translations. First Edition, First Printing [Chinese text faces English on many pages]. Cloth and boards. Tall 8vo, red eighth cloth with gold lettering on spine over black boards, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) designed by Carlos Beltran; illustrated with Chinese..... More