Italy from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Palermo: Sellerio Editore, 1984. Quarto (34cm). Black cloth-covered boards, titled in gilt on spine and front cover, with applied pictorial label; 61pp text, 120 unnumbered pages of plates. Illustrated in b&w in text, 61 leaves of plates containing 187 color reproductions. Publisher's price sticker inside rear cover. Mild external wear; internally clean, fresh and unmarked; Near Fine. Text entirely… Read more about this item

Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2003. First Edition. Octavo. Textured card wrappers (softcover); ci,302pp. A few faint smudges of thumb-soil to exterior, else a tight, clean and unmarked copy. Published as no.61 in the series "Sussidi Eruditi." Includes a substantial biographical essay by Boldrini; text entirely in Italian.

New York: Murray and Isabella Rayburn Foundation, 1992. First Edition. Quarto. Glossy card wrappers; 48pp; illus. Slight bump at head of spine, else tight, clean and unmarked; Very Good or better. Catalog for the 1992 Rayburn Foundation exhibition of Depero's futurist works.

State College: Penn State University Press, 2004. First Edition. First printing. Quarto. Cloth-backed, pictorial boards; dustjacket; xliii,380pp; illus. Includes bibliography. Mild forward lean to text block; a few pages with very mild pencil marginalia; Near Fine. In the original translucent printed dustwrapper, clean and unworn, Near Fine. A nice, clean copy of the less common hardcover issue.

Trento: Museo Del Risorgimento E Della Lotta Per La Liberta, 1994. First Edition. Octavo. 24cm. Publisher's original pictorial card wraps. 195pp. Some wear and creasing to the edges of the card covers, trifling wear and bumping. A very good, clean copy. Internally clean. Folding maps to rear pocket. A historical examination of an important quarter century in Italy's encroachments… Read more about this item

New York: Harper and Brothers, 1928. First, Limited Edition. No. 306 of 750 numbered copies. Quarto (32cm). Cloth-backed paper-covered boards; 222pp; illus. Mounted color frontispiece; 128 text illustrations, many full-page. An attractive, Near Fine copy, lacking the slipcase.

New York: Garland Publishing Inc, 1991. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (24cm). Maroon cloth titled in silver on spine; [iv],iv,207,[1]pp. Sound and firm, minor sunning to spine, spotting to cloth, and dustiness to edges, internally clean: Very Good. Modern European History: Italy. A Garland Series of Outsanding Studies and Dissertations. [62423].

Udine: Del Bianco, 1989. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23.5cm). White glossy paper wrappers; 214,[6]pp. Lightly rubbed with mild dustsoil to rear wrapper, but generally clean and tight: Very Good.

Bari: De Donato, 1971. First Edition. Octavo. Printed still card wrappers (softcover); 395pp. Mild toning to text margins, still a tight, Near Fine copy. Text entirely in Italian.

Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1992. First Edition. Octavo (24cm). Black cloth in light brown dust jacket; [xii],292pp; black and white map. Bumped at spine ends, lightly dusty at top edge, else Near Fine. Jacket faded at spine, lightly rubbed at edges, else Very Good.

Bologna: Società Editrice il Mulino, 2009. First Edition. Octavo. Three cloth hardcover volumes in dustjackets; fourth volume (supplement) in wrappers; 2922+117pp; in original publisher's slipcase. A fine, apparently unread set. The slipcase is complete but beginning to separate at edges, just Very Good. Fourth and final installment of the Mulino critical edition of Gasperi's collected political writings. Text entirely… Read more about this item

New York: Bodley Press, (1948). First Edition. First printing. Small octavo; printed thick card wrappers; 71pp. Sunning to spine; neat ownership signature inside front cover; Very Good. A plea by a group of sympathetic poets and critics for the release of Ezra Pound from incarceration at St. Elizabeth's hospital. Includes brief excerpts from Pound's pro-Axis Rome Radio… Read more about this item

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Second printing, wrappered issue. Octavo; printed paper wrappers (softcover); 308pp. Neat ownership signature to front free endpaper, else Near Fine. Includes introductory essays by Mark R. Cohen and Theodore K. Rabb, Howard E. Adelman, and Natalie Zemon Davis; historical notes by Howard E. Adelman and Benjamin C.I. Ravid.

Leizpig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1860. 16mo (16cm). Two volumes in Florentine vellum with black leather onlays and gilt tooling to fronts and spines, titled in blue paint on front boards, all edges gilt; brown, white, and gilt patterned endpapers; [iii]-xii,292pp; [iii]-vi,280pp; 29 albumen prints laid down on inserted leaves. Contemporary bookseller's ticket of Giulio Giannini, Florence. Bookplates of Marlboro College… Read more about this item

Bari: Editori Laterza, 1966. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Leather spine over patterened paper-covered boards; publisher's card slipcase; 873pp. Fine, in lightly rubbed and soiled slipcase. Text entirely in Italian.

Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 1971. First Edition. Volume one (of two) only. Octavo; printed card wrappers; 411pp. Light external wear and soil; minimal pencil marginalia; Very Good. Review copy, with review slip from the American Historical Review clipped in at front endpaper. Text entirely in Italian.

London: Routledge, 2003. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers (softcover); xxii,266pp. Light external soil and wear; text clean, tight and unmarked. A sound, Very Good or better reading copy.

Cava de Tirreni: Emilio Di Mauro, (2000). First Edition. Three large octavo volumes. Cloth hardcovers in dustjackets; 788+690+710pp. The first three volumes (of four). A fine set, apparently unread, in similarly pristine dustwrappers - Near-New.

Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 1980. First Edition. Two large octavo volumes (25cm). Printed thick-paper wrappers; 960+800pp; illus. Mild external soil; mild bump to upper edge of text block, v.II; text fresh, clean and unmarked. Very Good+.

New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First American Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xv, 426pp. Neat ownership signature to the front endpaper. Tight, clean, Near Fine coy in crisp dustwrapper, Near Fine. An almost new-appearing copy. A history of Roger II's and the Norman's rule of Sicily and its reign as a cultural and intellectual capital of… Read more about this item