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Fantastic Tales
by Tarchetti, I. U.; Venuti, Lawrence (editor & translator)
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 156279020X
- ISBN 13
- 9781562790202
- Seller
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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About This Item
San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.: Mercury House, 1992. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Pearson, Jim. Inscribed by Editor. This is the first English translation of the Fantastic Tales of the 19th century Italian writer I. U. Tarchetti, whose novel Fosca was the basis for Ettore Scola's 1981 film Passione d'amore; the stories in this book were the first Gothic tales published in the Italian language; includes an introduction by the translator Lawrece Venuti and illustrations by Jim Pearson; an appendix contains translations of two French Gothic tales and a memoir of Tarchetti by Salvatore Farina; inscribed, signed, and dated by Venuti on the half-title page (black cloth with gold lettering, gold edges, gray end papers, black ribbon marker; dust jacket has illustration by Pearson on the front; a bright, clean, tight copy)
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- House of Our Own Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004843
- Title
- Fantastic Tales
- Author
- Tarchetti, I. U.; Venuti, Lawrence (editor & translator)
- Illustrator
- Pearson, Jim
- Format/Binding
- Hard Cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 156279020X
- ISBN 13
- 9781562790202
- Publisher
- Mercury House
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
- Date Published
- 1992
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