The Autobigraphy of Benvenuto Cellini (Modern Library #150.3)
by CELLINI, Benvenuto
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Modern Library. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. [c1961]. Hardcover. The 16th century Florentine artist, sculptor and author's tempestuous life is so energetically told here, this autobiography has become a classic. Translated from the Italian by John Addington Symonds. --- Toledano spine 8, w/blue cloth-covered boards, gilt titling on red spine & cover blocks, very faded red topstain, grey Kent endpapers. Likely published c1961 (though no publication date appears in book). Jacket style i, verso advertises 405 titles in ML catalog. ML #150.3. --- Penciling to front free endpaper, else an unmarked, firm, clean copy. Dust jacket with chafing and tears (especially at spine ends), orig. $1.95 flap price and in removable archival mylar protector.; 12mo 7" - 7-1/2" tall; 485 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 77127
- Title
- The Autobigraphy of Benvenuto Cellini (Modern Library #150.3)
- Author
- CELLINI, Benvenuto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Good dust jacket
- Publisher
- The Modern Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- [c1961]
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Biography, Autobiography, Memoir;
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- 12mo
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- Good+
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- Jacket
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- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....