The Decameron
by Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine with No dust jacket as issued
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Palatine, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Franklin Center, PA: The Franklin Library. Fine with No dust jacket as issued. 1979. Limited Edition. First Printing. Leather. Publisher's full dark green leather, spine in three compartments separated by raised bands, gilt lettering in two compartments, gilt tooling in remaining compartment, gilt borders and intricate gilt foliate tooling on covers, all edges gilt, moire silk endpapers, silk ribbon marker bound in. Illustrated with B&W drawings and page decorations by Murray Tinkelman. Notes from the Editors laid in.. The top edge of the moire silk endpapers are mildly sunned (as usual), otherwise the volume is in perfect, pristine condition; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. FINE.. The 100 Greatest Books of All Time Series. B&W Drawings. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. xxxi, 738 pp .
Synopsis
In the summer of 1348, as the Black Death ravages their city, ten young Florentines take refuge in the countryside. They amuse themselves by each telling a story a day for the ten days they are destined to remain there - a hundred stories of love, adventure and surprising twists of fate. Less preoccupied with abstract concepts of morality or religion than earthly values, the tales range from the bawdy Peronella hiding her lover in a tub to Ser Cepperallo, who, despite his unholy effrontery, becomes a Saint. The result is a towering monument of European literature and a masterpiece of imaginative narrative.
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- Bookseller
- Round Table Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28046
- Title
- The Decameron
- Author
- Boccaccio, Giovanni
- Illustrator
- Murray Tinkelman
- Format/Binding
- Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine with No dust jacket as issued
- Edition
- Limited Edition. First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Franklin Library
- Place of Publication
- Franklin Center, PA
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- Literature;, Fine Binding;, Boccaccio;, Franklin Library;, The 100 Greatest Books of All Time;, Illustrated Books;, Gift Ideas;, Erotica;, Medieval Literature;
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