Tales of Firenzuola: Benedictine Monk of Vallombrosa. A new edition of the rare Sixteenth Century romances
by Firenzuola
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
n.p: Firenzuola Society, Circa 1920. Privately Printed; Limited Edtio. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. A kinsman in spirit of Dante, Rabelais, Boccaccio, and Petrarch. Octavo, 8 1/4" tall, 178 pages, black quarter cloth binding over decorative paper cover boards. Privately printed edition limited to 1000 copies. A very good, clean, sturdy hardcover with minor shelf wear overall, fore-corner tips worn through to boards, hinges and binding solid, paper lightly yellowed. In a good only, edge worn dust jacket, faded along the back strip, and with chipping at the folds, ends of back strip, and along bottom edge.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 201
- Title
- Tales of Firenzuola: Benedictine Monk of Vallombrosa. A new edition of the rare Sixteenth Century romances
- Author
- Firenzuola
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Privately Printed; Limited Edtio
- Publisher
- Firenzuola Society
- Place of Publication
- n.p
- Date Published
- Circa 1920
- Keywords
- Fiction; Firenzuola
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...