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The Vision of Dante Alghieri, or Hell Purgatory and Paradise (Everyman's Library #308)
by DANTE (Dante Alighieri)
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Seller
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Littleton, Colorado, United States
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About This Item
London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1909. Hardcover. A 1909 reprint of the 1908 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition of Dante's classic long-form poems. Translated by the Rev. H. F. Cary, and with introduction and notes by Edmund G. Gardner. Later Everyman's Library editions present these works under their more familiar title: "The Divine Comedy." Everyman's Library catalog no. 308, in their Poetry and the Drama series, edited by Ernest Rhys. --- In flatback binding style 1, full olive cloth-covered boards with elaborate Reginald Knowles-designed gilt spine titling & decorations, blindstamped J. M. Dent vignette to front cover and fancy Knowles woodcut art at title page, endpapers & frontis. Volume lacks the dust jacket. --- With prior owner's bookplate affixed to front paste-down, tiny white specks to covers and acidic staining to front and rear endpapers, otherwise a tightly-bound, unmarked, sound copy.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xxi, (2), 451 pages .
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- Bookseller
- Bluebird Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 85854
- Title
- The Vision of Dante Alghieri, or Hell Purgatory and Paradise (Everyman's Library #308)
- Author
- DANTE (Dante Alighieri)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
- Place of Publication
- London / New York
- Date Published
- 1909
- Bookseller catalogs
- >>Poetry; >>Religion and Spirituality;
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About Bluebird Books
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- Bookplate
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- Gilt
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- G
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- Spine
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- Jacket
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- Good+
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