Search Results: Italy from Lorne Bair Rare Books

Verona: Stamperia Valdonega, 1998. First, Limited Edition. One of the first 50 copies on Magnani paper, casebound, of a total edition of 300 signed copies. Octavo (24cm); blue cloth boards with paper label title on cover; acetate dustjacket; 130pp; illus. Fine, apparently unread copy in a Fine DJ and slipcase. A selection of the author's letters to Sandy Campbell, Broadway actor and Windham's lifetime partner, written from Italy in 1948. Illustrated with mounted photograhic plates. A typically lovely book from the Stamperia Valdonega.

Reading: Universtity of Reading, 1970. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's grey printed staplebound card wrappers; 16pp. Publisher's extremities a bit rubbed and very slightly faded along top margin, ink ownership signature to upper cover, faint evidence of previously removed paperclips to textblock, else Very Good and sound. Research Paper No. 1 of the Institute of Agricultural History.

Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1982]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in cream printed dust jacket; xvi,477pp.; full-page maps throughout. Light dust-soil to jacket, front hinge very slightly starting, faint foxing to textblock fore-edge, else Very Good or better.

Napoli: Guida Editori, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's card wrappers, French flaps; 356pp. Light shelf wear, spine and rear cover a bit toned, else Very Good and sound. Published as no. 10 in the series Esperienze. Text entirely in Italian.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in price-clipped dust jacket; 226pp. Ownership signature to ffep. Minor foxing to edges and front of interior flaps of jacket, as well as top edge of textblock. Crown of board spine trivially pulled, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Spine, top edge, and rear cover of jacket showing some sunning. Near Fine in Very Good jacket. In publisher's series "Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History.

Boulder: East European Quarterly, 1972. First English Language Edition. Octavo (24.5cm.); publisher's boards in orange printed dust jacket; 338pp. Boards and jacket extremities quite rubbed and worn, jacket spine significantly sunned with coin-sized loss at foot; Very Good only overall. Inscribed and signed by the author on front flyleaf with recipient's rubberstamp ex libris to front free endpaper.

Milano: Dott. A. Giuffrè Editore, 1973. First Edition. Quarto (25cm.); original white card wrappers printed in red and black, yapp edges; [2],502pp. Minor shelf-wear, wrappers uniformly dust-soiled else a Very Good or better, unopened copy. Annual publication of the foundation named after the founder of the Catholic labor union the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions. Though well-represented in European libraries, OCLC locates no holdings of this publication in North America as of July, 2016.

[Firenze]: La Nuova Italia Editrice, [1972]. First Edition. Octavo (20cm.); publisher's decorative card wrappers; viii,[2],305pp. General shelf wear to wrapper extremities, spine quite significantly sunned, faint pressure stamp to title page, else Very Good, internally fine. Study of the Italian Marxist philosopher and politician. Text entirely in Italian.

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.

Madison, NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1996. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 115pp. Fine copy in dustjacket, small nick to top of jacket spine, else Fine.

Firenze: Leo S. Olschki Editore, 2001. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's card wrappers in black pictorial dust jacket; 406pp.; maps in text. A hint of wear and dust soil else Fine. History of the Biennio Rosso, the revolutionary post-WW1 period in Tuscany involving both the Fascist blackshirts and the Italian communists, ending with Mussolini's March on Rome in 1922. Issued as Vol. 48 of the series Biblioteca di Storia Toscana Moderna e Contemporanea: Studi e Documenti. Text entirely in Italian.

1992. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. Quarto (28.5cm x 26cm). Green cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 380pp; illus. Near Fine copy; one gently bumped corner, else clean and tight. Near Fine dustwrapper, slight sheld ward to extemities, with clean and crisp. A detailed exploration of the early Renaissance frescoes in the Brancacci Chapel in Florence after extensive restoration process. 192 illustrations, including 165 color plates.

N.p., n.d., ca. 1970s. First Edition. Broadsheet (27.75cm.) printed mimeograph. Very light toning to extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. Resignation letter by the Italian-American feminist in which she delineates twelve points against the movement. Though born in the United States, Anselma Dell'Olio has become an naturalized Italian citizen married to the politician and former communist Giuliano Ferrara. OCLC locates 2 copies of this edition (another is described as being 5pp.) at Northwestern and Duke.

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 broadcasts, their first appearance in print in America.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. Reprint. Octavo (19.5cm.); original cloth in black and teal pictorial price-clipped dust jacket by Florian, blue-green topstain; [12],284pp. Jacket extremities rubbed, especially at spine ends, 3/4" closed tear at bottom of rear panel, else Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Spy thriller set in Fascist Italy, first published in 1938 in Great Britain.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 280pp. Fine and unmarked; no dustwrapper, probably as issued.

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.

Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo; black cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; [viii],291,[5]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with light wear to spine ends and extremities. "The Clockwork Factory focuses on the history of Magnetti Marelli, near Milan - perhaps the most modern Americanized firm in Italy at this time - and its female workers" (from front flap).

New York: Roy Publishers, 1964. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 240pp. Ownership signature on front free endpapers. Bottom edge of front board mildly bumped, some toning to endpapers, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Jacket showing minor shelf wear, spine mildly sunned. Very Good.

Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1988. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 398pp. Minor toning to interior flaps of jacket, spine mildly sunned, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Near Fine.