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London: At the Florence Press, Chatto & Windus, 1913. Edited with an English rendering by Israel Gollancz. Neatly inscribed on FFEP by I. Gollancz to Dr Beeching: 'With all good messages' 21 XII 1915. Also on FFEP and pastedown, a poorly effaced ink description of Gollancz. A bibliographic notice on newsprint(?) affixed to pastedown. There is wear to the corners of the boards, spine ends frayed, and some (bleachlike) stains to the cloth backing material. There is a slight waviness to the bottom of the pages, but they don't seem to have been dampened. The pages are beautiful and the presentation is an apt medium for subject and author. Number 281 of 550. Facsimile of ms. on frontispiece. Letterpress on handmade Aldwych paper. Untrimmed. From the description on the pastedown: 'Rubricated text. 'Olympia' may be read side by side with 'Pearl.' In addition to the poem there are translations of Boccaccio's references to his little daughter, 'Olympia,' who died when five and a half years of age. The Angel… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1920. 335 pp. Rubbing and bumping to edges and corners. Contents: Dio, Natura, Italia, Vita, Pensiero, Index of authors, Publishers. Works by Acanoor, Aleardi, Amicis, d'Annunzio, Giusti, Tommaseo, Fogazzaro, Villari, Prezzolini, Roccatagliata-Ceccardi, Leopardi, Marradi, Bertacchi, Deledda, Graf, Ferrari, Salvadori, Giacosa, Pastonchi, Papini, Palazzeschi, Govoni, Pascoli, Nievo, Gioberti, Giusti, d'Azeglio, Berchet, Mazzini, Speri, Carducci, Pasolini, Orvieto, Negri, Porta, Selvatico, Fucini, Pascarella, Contrucci, Foscolo, Serao, Siciliani, Spaventa, Gentile, Croce, Rosadi, Oriani, Chiesa, and others. 'E primavera candida e vermiglia: / Ridon i prati, e 'l ciel si rasserena.'--Petrarca, Sonetto XLII. . Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux: The Noonday Press, 1993. pp. 229. Wraps illustrated with a photo of a marble head of Antinouos. 'Like waves washing against a pebbled shore, her sentences soothe, then hypnotize; before long the sound of her voice--slightly weary, serenely wise--becomes that of Reason itself . . . [Her essays] display a moralist and critic of remarkable range and sympathy.'--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post Book World. 'It goes without saying that we do not possess a single Greek statue in the state which its contemporaries knew it: we can barely discern, here and there on the hair of a Kore or a Kouros of the sixth century, the traces of reddish color, like palest henna, which attest to their pristine character of painted statues alive with the intense, almost terrifying life of mannequins and idols which also happen to be masterpieces of art. Those hard objects fashioned in imitation of the forms of organic life have, in their own way, undergone the equivalent of… Read More