New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. First Edition. The first social and cultural study of the principal 'free' profeesions in Italy between unification and World War I. First Printing. Octavo; black paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket; viii,340pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with some..... More

Napoli: Arte Tipografica, 1999. First Edition. Large octavo (24cm.); publisher's cream pictorial card wrappers, French flaps; xvii,[1],497pp. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. Festschrift dedicated to the Italian legal philosopher on the occasion of his receiving the Premio Mecenate. Text entirely in Italian. More

Torino: Giulio Einaudi Editore, 1989. First Edition. Volume VII in publisher's series "Storia d'Italia, Le regioni dall'Unità a Oggi." Octavo. Green cloth boards in dust jacket, green topstain to textblock; publisher's paper-covered green cloth slipcase; xx, 1033pp. Text in Italian. Old price sticker to bottom edge of slipcase. Trivial shelf..... More

Pietrasanta: Chiostro di S. Agostino, Museo dei Bozzetti, 1997. First Edition. Slim square quarto (21.75cm.); original photo-illustrated card wrappers; 46pp.; color and black and white photographs throughout. Light shelf wear, else Near Fine. Exhibition catalog, text in English and Italian. More

[Verucchio]: Pier Giorgio Pazzini Stampatore Editore, [2000]. First Edition. Small octavo (20cm.); publisher's white card wrappers printed in dark red and black, French flaps; 93pp. Minor dust-soil, else Near Fine. Poetry collection by the Italian sociologist, published a year before his death. Inscribed and signed on front free endpaper: "To..... More

London: Croom Helm, 1977. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust jacket; 225pp. Ownership signature on front free endpapers. Minor foxing to top edge of textblock and jacket, else a tight, clean, unmarked copy. Mild external wear to jacket. Very Good. More

Rome: Giulio Tuzzi, 1910. First Edition. Staple-bound pamphlet. Octavo; printed paper wrappers; 40pp. Mild corner-creasing and external again; expected age-toning to text; Very Good. Memorial tribute to the Italian anarchist turned socialist Andrea Costa (d. 1910), who was a founding member of the Italian Labor Party in 1892. A scarce..... More

Marseille: Direction des Musés de Marseille, 1985. First Edition. Small quarto (23cm x 21cm). Pictorial wrappers (softcover); 184pp; illus. Very Good copy; shelf wear to extremities; slight chipping to two corners and spine panel, else clean and tight. Published in conjunction with a 1985 exhibition at Marseilles' Musée Cantini of..... More

New York: Harper and Row, 1970. First American Edition. A history of Roger II's and the Norman's rule of Sicily and its reign as a cultural and intellectual capital of medieval Europe. Sixteen inserted b&w plates, focused on the art and architecture of the era. Octavo. Cloth boards in dust..... More

New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. First Edition. "Numbers and Nationhood explores the Italian infelction of a Europe-wide phenomenon in the nineteenth century: the rise of statistics as a mode of representation of modern society" (from front flap). Octavo; dark gray cloth, with titles stamped in silver on spine; dustjacket;..... More

Roma: Libreria Editrice "Luigi Mongini" 1910. First Edition. 12mo (19cm.); original pictorial wrappers; 62pp. Spine nearly perished with textblock leaves mostly loose but complete; Shallow chips and tiny losses along wrapper extremities, textblock toned and very brittle from poor paper stock, contemporary Italian-American bookseller's plate mounted to rear wrapper. Good..... More

Princeton: Princeton University Press, [1993]. First Edition. Octavo (ca. 25cm.); publisher's cloth in decorative dust jacket; [2],xv,[1],258pp.; maps in text. Old price sticker to front jacket flap, boards a bit bowed, front hinge slightly pulled, else Very Good or better. More