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Tiepolo Pink

By: Calasso, Roberto

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, Alfed A. Knopf: 2009

Seller ID: 28225

ISBN: 0307267660

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Crisp, beautiful book with no names or writing and no bumps to boards. Pages and page edges are pristine. Dustjacket is likewise nice with no tears or chips and no price-clip. Only fault is a small light stain to title box on front cover. Looks most handsome in brand new mylar cover. Book was translated from the Italian and is illustrated plentifully with color images and black and white drawings throughout. The subject is Giambattista Tiepolo, noted for his thirty three bizarre etchings. Most authors have declined to take them on, but Calasso made each one the subject of his book. The topics...
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Hermit In Paris; Autobiographical Writings (Italo Calvino)

By: Calvino, Italo

Price: $20.00

Publisher: New York, New York, U.S.A., Pantheon Books: 2003

Seller ID: 25968TB

ISBN: 037542184X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Crisp, clean, as new book in brand new mylar cover. No defective of note. Has not been -price-clipped and there are no names or writing. First time to be published in English. Comprised of 19 essays of a biographical nature written by Calvino. 255 pages including index.
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Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years

By: Ezra Pound

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Durham, North Caroina, Duke University Press Books: 1996

Seller ID: 23806

ISBN: 0822317656

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

At first glance this book looks like it's been badly scribbled, but no, it's the design which takes its energy from Pound's margnialia. The essays are divided into four sections titled thus: Machine Art,; How To Write; European Paiduma; and Pragmatic Aesthetics.There's also an introduction by Maria Luisa Ardizzone and many bold photographs. The book measures 6" x 9-1/4" and has 174 psages including index It's very clean with no spine crease and no names or writing.
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Machine Art and Other Writings: The Lost Thought of the Italian Years

By: Ezra Pound

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Durham, North Caroina, Duke University Press Books: 1996

Seller ID: 23806B

ISBN: 0822317656

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Very Good

Tremosine: Lombard Voices From America

By: Farina, Luciano F.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Columbus, Ohio, Retraggio Italianp Publishings (RETITALPRESS): 2003

Seller ID: 276239

ISBN: 1424344956

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Very nice, clean, atractive book with a very pleasing graphic cover design. Book is tightly bound with no names or writing, no spine crease, and pristine pages and page edges. Book centers on Italian immigrants who are porud of their heritage and wish to preserve their oral history. So with that in mind individuals and families shared their stories and photographs in these pages. Book measures 7" x 10" and has 121 pages. (GEN.)
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Faraone dei Sentimenti

By: Kahn, Laurence

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Milan, Italy, G.F. Baruchello: 1987

Seller ID: 23022

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Good-plus

This is a hard to find art catalog written in both Italian and English with tipped-in color art throughout. Measures 6-1/2"x 9-1/2" and is clean and tightly bound.
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INVITATION TO MILAN

By: LUIGI BARZINI

Price: $25.00

Publisher: MAGNUS EDIZIONI: 1984

Seller ID: 6006

ISBN: 887057038X

Binding: HARD BACK IN SLIP CASE

Condition: FINE

BEAUTIFUL COLOR PHOTOS AND LIMITED TEXT SHOW MILAN'S HISTORY AND MODERN TRANSFORMATION
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Ville Venete Deluxe Edition Hardcover and Slipcase (NEW in shrinkwrap)

By: Manicelli, Francesco

Price: $45.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Arsenale Editrice: 2006

Seller ID: 28150

ISBN: 8877432853

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: NEW

Beautiful deluxe edition BRAND NEW in original slipcase. The book comes with a dustjacket as well as a slipcase. It measures 11" x 13" and has 318 pages with many photographs. The book is an homage to the architecture and artistry of Italian builders and designers. Would make a lovely gift.
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La scittura delle pergamene dell' Archivo Vescovile di Revello (Vesuvius)

By: Mazzoleni, Iole

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Napoli, Itlay, Arte Tipografica: 1983

Seller ID: 23649

Binding: Soft Coover

Condition: Nean Fine

This is a very nice, clean booklet which is written in Italian. There are no names or writing and the booklet is pristine inside and out. It measures 7" x 10" and accommodates four pages of text at front followed by plates printed on glossy paper showing examples from the original. The title of the publication translates to The Parchments of Revello's Visuvius Archives. None of the pages have been opened at the top, so no one has read it (See photo).
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The Italian Legacy in Washington D.C.; Architecture, Design, Art and Culture

By: Molinari, Luca; Canepari, Andrea

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Italy, Skira Editore: 2007

Seller ID: 28166

ISBN: 8861303048

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

Beautiful, brand new book with dustjacket in brand new mylar to keep it as lovely as it is now. This is an oversized book measuring 10" x 11-1/4" and has 213 pages. The photography is gogeous in both bland white and colrorand there is much of it. D.C. is filled with Italian artistic ideas , including these: Monicello Estate, the Watergate Complex, The Italian Chancery, the Jefferson Monument, the Frescoes of Constantine Brumidi, and the National Gallery of Art. Would make a very handsome gift.
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Inside Out Rome:Pop-up Map, 64 Page City Guide, Rome; Compass and Pen

By: No author Stated

Price: $18.00

Publisher: England, Map Group Inc: 2003

Seller ID: 23586

ISBN: 1904766188

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

This is the cleverest travel guide I've ever seen. I have had pop-up maps, but not with a 64 page guide in color, a pen nestled inside the spine and a flip-top cap above the pen which houses the compass. It's a great size at 4" x 6" too, perfect for carrying around. The contents say, "See it, buy it, watch it, taste it, know it, note it, index it, and speak it! Sounds like a vacation!
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Anthology of Italian Song of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Schirmer's Library of Musical classics)

By: Parisotti, Allesandro

Price: $30.00

Publisher: New York, G. Schirmer Inc.: 1926

Seller ID: 25869

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean, tightly bound book with only minor exterior wear. Cpotnents pristine with no names or writ8ing and no crackign to hinges. Measures 8"x10-3/4" and has 144 pages. Includes biogrphies of all compesers featured as well as selections which include both music and lyrics in both Italian and English. compsers include: Giovanni Maria Bononcini, Antonion Caldara, Gian Giacomo Carissimi, Marco antonio Cesti, Christoph Wilibard Gluck, George Frederick Handel, Niccola Jommelli, Giovanni Legrenzi, Antonio Lotti, Benedetto Marcello, Giovanni Martini, Giovanni Paisiello, Giovannia Battista Per...
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Precisazioni sul Beato Gerardo De Saxo E L'Ospedale Gerosolimitano (The Blessed Gerard De Saxo and The Hospital of Jerusalem 1973)

By: Porta, Antonio

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Roma, Monsignor Cesario D'Amato: 1973

Seller ID: 27471RD

Binding: Soft Cover

Condition: Fine

Very handsome booket inside an outer portfolio, published in a very small print run of just 200 copies as a benefit for the Cathedral of Scala. Text is entirely in Italian and is a monograph about the Blessed Gerard and his work at the Hospital of Jerusalem. Fra Gerard was born in Tuscany in 1174, became a knight and was ultimately captured in a crusade. He was eventually set free and worked at the Jerusalem Hospital, but spent most of his life as a pious Catholic hermit. The booklet is clean and nice and measures 6-1/2"x9" with 19 pages and two drawings.
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La Costa Delles Serene; Tra Vietri e Ravello, Amalfi e Positano 1850-1950

By: Proto, Vincenzo

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Naples, Italy, Electa Napoli: 2007

Seller ID: 27700

ISBN: 8851004358

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Beautiful book which celebrates the beauty and serenity of the coast of Italy between Vietri and Ravello and Amalfi and Positano from 1850-1950. Beautiful full page photographs,some in color at front, the rest in black and white. Text is in ITALIAN. Book appears as new -- gently kept by previous owner. No dustjacket, but may have been issued without. Handsome map endpapers both front and back. Measures 10" x 11-1/2" and has 238 pages.
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Lino Taguapietra (Art Glass Catalog)

By: Sahl-Madsden, Charlotte

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ebeltoft, Denmark, The Glasmuseum: 1996

Seller ID: 27939

ISBN: 8789975146

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

This is a lovely exhibit catalog, top drawer in every way. It's hard cover, comes with a see-through dust jacket, includes a text available in Danish, English, and Japanese, AND every beautiful item is given full-color, full-page coverage. The catalog measures 8-1/2" square with 81 pristine pages on coated paper. The jacket shows a 1" tear to bottom back edge -- the only defect. I tried to put in in a mylar cover, but the picture on the cover then disappeared due to the white backing of the mylar. So instead I used a thin piece of archival tape on the reverse side to close it. Very elegant cat...
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Trilussa: Tutte Le Poesie

By: Trilussa (Carlo Alberto Salustri)

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Italy, Mondadori: 1975

Seller ID: 27885

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine in VG Slipcase

Very atrractive book with just one fault -- sunning to spines of both dustjacket and slipcase. Otherwise pristine with blue cloth binding to book and to top and bottom of case. Trilussa (1873-1950) was a poet who wrote in the dialect of Rome. He grew in popularity during the 1920's and 30's and yet was not a member of the literati. He preferred to communicate with common people in the taverns and streets. The book measures 5-1/2" x 8" has has 1017 pristine pages. no names or writing. Written in its entirety in Italian.
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Tomasso Guidi; A High Level Synthesis of Italian Racing and Breeding

By: Varola, Franco

Price: $50.00

Publisher: San Francisco, Hooper Publishing: 1960

Seller ID: 24904

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Clean, attractive book with no names or writing and virtually no wear to boards. Pages tightly bound. Measures 7"x10-1/4" and has 120 pages. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Book focuses on the great Italian racehorse Tomasso Guidi, the result of the work of the well-known breeder Frederico Tesio.
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The World of Beretta: An International Legend

By: Wilson, R.L.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: U.S.A., Random House: 2000

Seller ID: 23490

ISBN: 0375501495

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Very nce book owned by a collector who kept his books beautifully. This one is clean and bright inside and out with no names or writing, no bumps to boards, no price-clip, and no tears or chips. Dustjacket looks most handsome in brand new mylar cover. Book measures 8-3/4" x 11-1/4" and has 370 pages including index. Published to commemorate the 475th annversary of the oldest gunmaker in the world -- Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta. Handsomely illsutrated in full color throughout. Lengthy text also..
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Museum of Antiquity; A Description of Ancient Life

By: Yaggy, L.W. And Haines, T.L.

Price: $65.00

Publisher: Philadelphia, Eastern Publishing House: 1882

Seller ID: 28100

Binding: Leather

Condition: Very Good

This is an exquisite volume -- nicely made and detailed. Binding is leather with four raised bands at spine and bright, shiny gilt on all three sides of pages. Face board shows embossing and bright gilt printing too, as doesspine. There is some rubbing and spots where leather is lost at back cover in small smounts (see photo). Book is tightly bound with no cracking to hinges. Gorgeous marble endpapers in mustard yellow, brown and green are pristine and nicely finished with dentelles. Pages are very clean, . Book centers on ancient life in Egypt, Italy and Greece, discussing "employments,...
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Category: Italy