A Crown of Fire: The Life andTimes of Girolamo Savonarola by Van Paassen, Pierre - 1960

New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960 Modest edge wear at the spine ends and corners. Clean and tight. Dj has some edge chipping, edge tears and wear at the folds with some loss of color at the folds. Dj price intact, not clipped.. Hard Cover. Good +/Fair+. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hutchinson of London, 1961. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1961. First Edition. 330 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over purple cloth boards with lettering. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning. Lettering is bright and clear. Unclipped jacket has light edge-wear with minor tears and chipping. Mild rubbing and marking.

New York: Scribner, 1960. hardcover. very good/good. Frontispiece. 8vo, cloth-backed boards, d.w. (d.w. edgeworn & chipped, faint musty smell). New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1960). Very good copy with a good d.w.<br/> <br/>

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS. Collectible - Acceptable. First edition copy. Collectible - Acceptable. Acceptable dust jacket. Rear hinge cracked. Stamped on inside. Dust jacket price clipped. In protective mylar cover. (christianity, christian, biography)

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 330p. A very good hardcover book in a very good dustjacket. Edges of jacket rubbed, endpapers dirtied, otherwise pages clean and tight. The life of a 15th-century Italian Dominican friar who was famously tried for heresy and burnt at the stake.

New York: Scribners, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First edition. Very good in an about Very good dustwrapper. Chips and tears on dustwrapper. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1960. First Edition 8vo size hardcover with dust jacket; From jacket: "In this most exciting period of history the author traces (Savonarola's) contacts with Lorenzo (the Magnificent) and the opposition, with the artists, Botticelli and Michelangelo, with Machiavelli, with the great Pope, Alexander VI, with Lucrezia, Cesare and the Sforza family. There is Savonarola's conversion of the whole city of Florence with the entire population walking in a procession of penitence. When the king of France invaded Italy, Savonarola went out to meet him and thus saved the city while the rest of the country was ravaged by war. Mr. van Paassen examines Savonarola's ideas on democracy and freedom, on everyday questions, and his strange predictions and prophesies which came to be fulfilled. And finally, the accusation of heresy, the trial and torture, and the burning at the stake." Address label inside back cover; chipping to top and bottom of… Read More

New York: Scribners, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Price clipped. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.

New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good in Good dust jacket;. 1960. Stated First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 330 pages; Index. Very good in near very good DJ. Life and Times of Girolamo Savonarola .

London etc.: Hutchinson of London, 1961. First Edition. Cloth. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo, brown cloth with silver and red lettering on spine, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped) with sketches of Savonarola before Florence's towering city hall, xxii + 330 pages. Engrossing study of the Inquisitor Savonarola and his dangerous era. <br /> <br /> Remarkably well preserved copy: tight, bright, clean in bright dust jacket (unclipped) with slight edgewear and traces of soil on the rear panel.