Charity and Power in Early Modern Italy. Benefactors and their motives in Turin, 1541-1789
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 280pp. Fine and unmarked; no dustwrapper, probably as issued. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; 280pp. Fine and unmarked; no dustwrapper, probably as issued. More
New York: Berghahn Books, [2007]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); publisher's glossy pictorial paper-covered boards; ix,[1],182pp. Fine condition. More
New York: Berghahn Books, [2000]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's dark blue-grey decorative paper-covered boards stamped in metallic green; xiv,[2],272pp.; illus. throughout. As New. More
Rome: Staderini, 1960. First Edition. Octavo (20.5cm); green cloth, linen grain, stamped in foil, in pictorial dustwrapper; 11-143pp. Dustwrapper tanned, chipped along extremities (especially spine crown); mild wear and soiling; three puncture tears to spine. Boards bowed; textblock upper margins toned, bindings slightly shaken; sticker on rear pastedown; author signature..... More
Reading: University of Reading, 1973. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's green printed staplebound card wrappers; [2],34pp. Light wear at fore-edge corners of upper cover, contemporary date rubberstamp to upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Compliments card laid in. Centre for the Advanced Study of Italian Society Occasional Papers..... More
New York: Libreria Rossa, N.d. [ca 1919?]. First Edition. Communist tract, issued shortly after the Russian revolution, calling for an immediate proletarian revolution in Italy, with socialization of industry and agriculture; closure of borders (to prevent the flight of the bourgeoisie); and the "management of the new society through a...... More
New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. First Edition. In publisher's series "Italian and Italian American Studies." Octavo. Pictorial paper-covered boards; xii, 263pp. Bottom of spine gently bumped, trivial shelf wear to boards, else a tight, clean, new-appearing copy. Fine. More
Roma: Laterza, 1974. First Edition. Octavo. Pictorial card wrappers; 482,(6)pp. Mild external wear, else Near Fine; text clean, tight and unmarked. Text entirely in Italian. In publisher's series "Biblioteca di Cultura Moderna Laterza." More
London: Collins, 1969. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in red decorative dust jacket; 254pp. Light edge wear to jacket extremities, else Very Good or better. Collection of stories narrated by an illiterate Italian peasant, many of which appeared in the collections The Yellow Book and In His Own Image. More
London: John Lane, The Bodley Head, 1901. First Edition. Octavo (19.75cm.); publisher's blue-grey cloth embossed in gilt; x,[2],421,[1],[2](ads)pp. Boards rubbed and worn, spine toned, joints cracked with some discrete repair in rear, else a Good or better copy. Collection of short stories set in Italy. More
Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999. First Edition. Sociologica study exploring the experiences and accomplishments of Jewish and Italian immigrant women in New York after the end of World War I. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's review sheet folded laid in. Octavo (24cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped..... More
Roccasinibalda, Italia: Caresse Crosby, n.d., ca. 1952-1954. First Edition. Octavo broadside (21cm.); Fine. Text entirely in Italian. Manifesto of the pacifist Citizens of the World movement, which Caresse Crosby, founder of the Black Sun Press, established shortly after the end of World War II. This flyer presumably issued after her..... More
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. First Edition. A collection of essays "by scholars from various disciplines - philosophy, history, literature, and art history - covering the broad scope of Croce's life and work, from his early writings on local Neopolitan history in the 1890s to his activity as a...... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000. First English Language Edition. Large Quarto (33.5cm x 29cm). Brown cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 284pp; illus. Near fine copy; one slightly bumped corner; soiling to bottom textblock, else clean and tight. Near Fine..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2000. First English Language Edition. Large Quarto (33.5cm x 29cm). Brown cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on cover and spine; pictorial dustjacket; 284pp; illus. Very Good copy; slightly bumped corners; bottom spine corner frayed; soiling to bottom textblock, else clean and..... More
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. First Edition. Quarto (30cm x 25.5cm). Green cloth boards (hardcover) with titling embossed in gold on spine; pictorial dustjacket; 240pp; illus. Fine copy, apprears new. Near Fine dustwrapper; slight shelf wear to extremities; small tear to bottom corner, else clean and sound. First full-length..... More
Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1988. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 398pp. Minor toning to interior flaps of jacket, spine mildly sunned, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Near Fine. More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; xxi, 229pp. Minor shelf wear to boards and dust jacket, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Near Fine. More
[Roma]: Editori Laterza, 1990. First Edition. Thick octavo (ca. 21cm.); publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[3],1044pp. A hint of shelf wear, shallow creasing to a few early leaves, else Fine. Collana Storica della Banca d'Italia Documenti Vol. 1. More
Bari: De Donato, 1971. First Edition. Octavo. Printed still card wrappers (softcover); 395pp. Mild toning to text margins, still a tight, Near Fine copy. Text entirely in Italian. More
Bologna: Società Editrice il Mulino, 2009. First Edition. Octavo. Three cloth hardcover volumes in dustjackets; fourth volume (supplement) in wrappers; 2922+117pp; in original publisher's slipcase. A fine, apparently unread set. The slipcase is complete but beginning to separate at edges, just Very Good. Fourth and final installment of the Mulino..... More
Roma: Editori Laterza, 1992. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Gray cloth boards; 486pp. Light pencil underlining scattered through first 20 or so pages, else a tight, clean copy lacking the dustwrapper. Text entirely in Italian. More
Milan: Baldini Castoldi Dalai, 2007. First Edition. Octavo. Paper-covered boards in dust jacket; 291pp. Author signature and inscription to title page. 32 half-tone plates inserted. Minor foxing to top edge of textblock, trivial age toning to margins of textblock, else a tight, clean, near-new copy. Trivial shelf wear to boards..... More
N.p. n.d., ca. 1970s. First Edition. Broadsheet (27.75cm.) printed mimeograph. Very light toning to extremities, else Very Good to Near Fine. Resignation letter by the Italian-American feminist in which she delineates twelve points against the movement. Though born in the United States, Anselma Dell'Olio has become an naturalized Italian citizen..... More
New York: Jonathan Cape, 1931. First American Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); brown cloth covered boards, titled in black on the spine; dustjacket by N. Vassi; 206pp.; illustrated by Charles Sandford; spine ends are gently pushed; Fine. The dustjacket is clipped on the lower front flap, (priced $3.00 on the..... More