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The Decameron of Boccaccio
by Giovanni Boccaccio: John Payne, Translator
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good +/Fair
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Blue Ribbon Books, 1931 Blue Ribbon Books, New York. c1931. Hardcover. Edition/Printing not stated. With new erotic illustrations specially made for this edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good +; shelfwear to head, tail, tips, and board top and bottom edges; light rubbing to spine shoulders and boards; glue browning to endpapers. DJ; Fair: NOT Price Clipped ($1.00); missing small pieces to head, tail, and upper tips; suntoning to spine; wear to spine edges on jacket. Blue cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering and decorations on the spine. Deckled textblock fore edge. Pictorial Endpapers. Tinted textblock top. 528 pp 8vo. The Decameron is a collection of short stories completed in 1353. The book was published in the wake of the Black Death which swept through Europe in the 14th century. In his book, a group of young Florentine men and women attempt to escape the plague-ridden city. They stay in a villa in the countryside and swap stories which are done over a nine day period and illustrated with erotic setting and liaisons. Intrigue, wit and pathos are contained n these 100 tales of love depicting the charm and richness of life in early Naples. Beauty of narrative, grace of expression, and seaarching pen pictures of human nature make this the most extraordinary work of genius ever written. A clean presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 016454
- Title
- The Decameron of Boccaccio
- Author
- Giovanni Boccaccio: John Payne, Translator
- Illustrator
- Steele Savage
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Jacket Condition
- Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Reprint Edition
- Publisher
- Blue Ribbon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1931
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- eroticism, Florentine writings, erotic fiction, The Decameron of Boccaccio, Black Plague, Black Death, Naples, Giovanni Boccaccio: John Payne, Translator,
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Shelfwear
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- Fore Edge
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- Brodart
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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