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Etruscan Places
by Lawrence, D. H
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About This Item
New York: The Viking Press, 1932.
8vo. 225 x 150 mm., [9 x 5 3/4 inches]. 200 pp. Illustrated with 20 collotype reproductions. Original black cloth; stamped in gilt, top edge stained black. Original cream dust jacket, plain wrappers. Bookseller's ticket of Paul Elder & Co., San Francesco to rear pastedown. Tight copy, paper mellowed lightly, Near Fine. Jacket unclipped (priced $ 3. 75), spine browned, rubbed at edges, lightly soiled along top edge, with tape repoair to veros at head of spine; about Very good.
Travel essays contrasting life in ancient Etruscan Italy with contemporary fascism under Mussolini. "The first American issue of Etruscan Places was published by Viking in November 1932 from the Secker sheets." (Roberts, 157).
The collotype plates illustrate scenes and objects which Lawrence describes - pictorial survey of Etruscan civilization.
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- Bookseller
- De Simone Company, Booksellers
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 992
- Title
- Etruscan Places
- Author
- Lawrence, D. H
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- The Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1932
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About the Seller
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About De Simone Company, Booksellers
De Simone Company is presently offering rare books, manuscripts, illustrated books, broadsides, and ephemera documenting American history during the 19th century. We encourage you to visit our website where you will find numerous catalogues listing our offering. Visit www.desimonecompanybooksellers.com.De Simone Company also specializes in early Italian books and manuscripts, mostly in the fields of social science, history, antiquarian bibliography and illustrated books. The Company has a particular interest in books, manuscripts, ephemera printed in, or about, the history of Ferrara, Italy and is always interested in purchasing book on the subject.In January of 2017, Daniel De Simone retired from the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D. C as the Eric Weinmann Librarian, where he directed the operations of the Central Library. De Simone came to the Folger from the Library of Congress after serving as the Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division for 14 years.Before his appointment as Rosenwald Curator in 2000, he operated his own New York based bookselling business for 22 years. Since retirement he has begun bookselling once again and is again a member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America and the International League of Antiquarian Booksellers. He is also a member of the Grolier Club, NY, the Association Internationale de Bibliophile, Paris, and the Print Council of America.
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- Fine
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- Jacket
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- Edges
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- Wrappers
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Gilt
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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