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The Divine Comedy; The Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso
by Dante Alighieri
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
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WINFIELD, Kansas, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY : Pantheon Books , 1948 Pantheon Books, New York. 1948. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Good; bumped upper tips; light wear to tail, tips. and board bottoms; scuff to top boards from shelf leaving white residue. DJ: Good; chipping and missing small pieces to head, tail, tips, and bottom edge of front panel. Maroon boards with beige cloth overlay on the spine with bright gilt lettering in a maroon shadowbox on the spine. 187 pp 4to. A new translation into English blank verse by Lawrence Grant White. For the first time, one of the greatest narrative poems of world literature, Dante's imaginary journey through the realm of the dead, is made accessible to the English reader in a direct, simple, an accurate version. The swift pace of the narrative is nowhere impeded by archaisms and tortuous constructions, and the meaning of the poem becomes clear to the modern reader. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket. Due to size/weight no international shipping.
Synopsis
Dante Alighieri was born in 1265. Considered Italy's greatest poet, this scion of a Florentine family mastered in the art of lyric poetry at an early age. His first major work is La Vita Nuova (1292) which is a tribute to Beatrice Portinari, the great love of his life. Married to Gemma Donatic, Dante's political activism resulted in his being exiled from Florence to eventually settle in Ravenna. It is believed that The Divine Comedy —comprised of three canticles, The Inferno, The Purgatorio , and The Paradiso —was written between 1308 and 1320. Dante Alighieri died in 1321.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010697
- Title
- The Divine Comedy; The Inferno, Purgatorio and Paradiso
- Author
- Dante Alighieri
- Illustrator
- Gustave Dore
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Pantheon Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1948
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Dante, Inferno, Hell, Purgatory, Paradise, circles of hell, cantos, prose poetry, The Divine Comedy, Godhead, Mountain of Purgatory, circles of Hell,
- Size
- 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall
Terms of Sale
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or in the unfortunate event, damaged. All books are packed and wrapped with care to avoid shifting during shipment and edge/tip strikes during the mailing process.
About the Seller
Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Biblio member since 2018
WINFIELD, Kansas
About Walnut Valley Books/Books by White
Walnut Valley Books is a small independent home-based business with the bulk of my holdings being of an American military nature covering everything from the Revolutionary War to the current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I also have holdings of books on the Middle East, the southwestern United States (New Mexico especially, Kansas related titles, Oklahoma related titles, and other regionally specialized books. All of my holdings are hand-selected to be good quality books of interest to the reader, historian, or the collector. In addition to the above, you will also find a wide range of other topics such as Medical, US History, autobiographical, biographical, sports, women's studies, and many other eclectic topics.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- Book Club Edition
- A generic term denoting a book which was produced or distributed by one of any number of book club organizations. Usually the...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Brodart
- Generally used to refer to a clear plastic cover that is sometimes added to the dustjacket or outside covering of a book. The...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
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