The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Cellini, Benvenuto
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Chagrin Falls, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Carlton House. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Good ; No jacket. Carlton House. No date in book. Circa late 1935-1940s. Translated by John Addington Symonds. NOT ex-library. Hardcover has red cloth-covered boards with gold spine and cover lettering on blue panels. Top page edges are red. Gold on spine decorations somewhat faded, but bright on cover. Binding tight. Hinges NOT cracked. Corners and spine ends bumped and rubbed, with some fraying at tips and spine ends. Covers have moderate edge wear and surface rubbing. Endpapers tanned. Pages lightly and uniformly tanned but still supple. A few pages have a crease in the fore edge margin. Pages clean and unmarked. 485 pages. No dust jacket. Carefully packed, shipped in a box.
Synopsis
Benvenuto Cellini was born in Florence in 1500 and died in 1571. James Fenton is a prizewinning poet, former professor of poetry at Oxford, and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books .
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- Bookseller
- SmarterRat Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 7393
- Title
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Author
- Cellini, Benvenuto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- Carlton House
- Keywords
- Biography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography;
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