Purgatorio: The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri
by Dante Alighieri (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, tr.)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good+
- Seller
-
Cleveland Heights, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Ticknor & Fields, 1867. First edition, 410p. Hardbound, large octavo, gilt-lettered green cloth with beveled boards, firm hinges and binding, some wear at top of spine, small ripple to cloth at top of front board, small previous owner paper label on spine, in good+ condition; top edge gilt, deckled edges, small previous owner name on front endpaper, interior otherwise clean and unmarked.
Synopsis
"Dante and his guide, Virgil, arrive on the shores of the Island-Mountain of Purgatory, located in the southern hemisphere, on Easter morning, 1300. Join them as they climb the mountain, from base to summit, over the course of three full days." - [*Danteworlds*][1], *University of Texas* [1]: http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/index.html
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Details
- Bookseller
- SunriseBooks
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 632
- Title
- Purgatorio
- Author
- Dante Alighieri (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, tr.)
- Book Condition
- Used - Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1867
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Size
- Octavo
Terms of Sale
SunriseBooks
Prepayment by credit card (Visa, Mastercard, Discover), check or money order. Books returnable within ten days.
About the Seller
SunriseBooks
Biblio member since 2005
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
About SunriseBooks
Open shop selling new and used books with a specialty in Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with a mail order sideline in detective fiction. Established in 1974.
Glossary
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Beveled
- Beveled edges, or beveled boards, describe a technique of binding in which the edges of book boards have been cut into slanted...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- 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....
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Top Edge Gilt
- Top edge gilt refers to the practice of applying gold or a gold-like finish to the top of the text block (the edges the pages...
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
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