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PURGATORIO SECOND BOOK OF THE DIVINE COMEDY: A NEW VERSE TRANSLATION WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY **FIRST EDITION**
by MANDELBAUM, ALLEN (Introduction & Commentary)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0520045165
- ISBN 13
- 9780520045163
- Seller
-
Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada
Item Price
A$51.05A$40.84
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About This Item
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 24mo - over 5 - 5¾" tall. Barry Moser. pp: [viii] ix - xxviii[2] [2]3-303 [1]. Pictorial dust jacket, cream cloth covered boards with the title and editor stamped in gilt in a green title piece on the spine. A verse translation with introductions & commentary by Allen Mandelbaum. Thirty-five original pen and wahs drawings by Barry Moser. The book was designed by Moser and Czeslaw Jan Grycz. Moser has also contributed a note on the drawings dated September, 1981. The dust jacket has moderate edge wear and a closed tear at the head of the rear panel.
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- Bookseller
- MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005870
- Title
- PURGATORIO SECOND BOOK OF THE DIVINE COMEDY: A NEW VERSE TRANSLATION WITH INTRODUCTION AND COMMENTARY **FIRST EDITION**
- Author
- MANDELBAUM, ALLEN (Introduction & Commentary)
- Illustrator
- Barry Moser
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0520045165
- ISBN 13
- 9780520045163
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley
- Date Published
- 1982
- Size
- 24mo - over 5 - 5¾"
- Keywords
- Barry Moser, Purgatorio, Divine Comedy, Illustrated Books, Classic Literature, The California Dante, Cantiche, Commentary, Narrative Poetry, Dante Alighieri, Italian Literature, The Afterlife, Medieval Worldview, the Western Church, the Tuscan language, P
- X weight
- 1.2 kg
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MAPLE RIDGE BOOKS
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Uxbridge, Ontario
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