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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
by Cellini, Benvenuto
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
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About This Item
New York : Modern Library (Random House), 1939. Book. Fine. Hardcover. Modern Library No. 150 in clean original dust jacket. Toledano binding no. 8. Clean blue cloth boards with red title box, gold lettering on cover and spine. No bumping, fading or wear. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Clean Kent style endpapers; no names, writing or bookplates. Pages are clean with clean rose-red top-stained upper page edges. Translated by John Addington Symonds. 485 pages. Clean jacket is price clipped at upper corner of front inside flap; no chips or tears; very slight edge wear; 383 titles listed on inverse of jacket, now enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover..
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
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 033860
- Title
- The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
- Author
- Cellini, Benvenuto
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Modern Library (Random House)
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1939
- Keywords
- Modern Library 150, memoir, biography, literature, Benvenuto Cellini, autobiography
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Library Editions;
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