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NYRB Classics. 1st U.S. Edition. Very Good. Very Good. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, The, 2000. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dover Pubns, 1967. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NYRB Classics, 2000-05-31. Paperback. Good. Excellent customer service. Prompt Customer Service.

No jacket. Former price on the fep. All pages unmarked.

Orion, 1959-01-01. Hardcover. Good. New York, 1959; white cloth covered boards with brown spine titles and green paper cover; corners bumped; gray dust jacket with black cover titles and yellow spine titles; heavy chipping at jacket edges; 4to - over 9 3/4" to 12" tall; previous owner's name on front pastedown, otherwise interior clean and unmarked. 277 pages. Additional shipping charges may be required.

Orion, 1959-01-01. Hardcover. Good. Unmarked text. Yellowed pages. Surface wear and multiple tear on dust jacket. Edge-wear. Lh

UsedLikeNew. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

New York: The Orion Press, (1959). Royal octavo, white cloth & yellow boards (hardcover), gilt letters, xxi, 277 pp. Good+, with former-owner signature and foxing (age darkened spotting) in a Good dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dust jacket: Mozart’s librettist, friend and libertine comrade of Casanova, poet to His Imperial and Royal Majesty, Joseph of Hapsburg, banished refugee from many capitals of Europe, founder of the Italian Opera House in New York -- Lorenzo Da Ponte was a man of diverse talents and rare vitality. Born in Italy in 1749, he spent the last thirty years of his life in nineteenth century New York, as a distiller, bookseller and first Professor of Italian Literature at Columbia University. An adventurer, perhaps a rogue, Da Ponte is nevertheless a gifted representative of an extraordinary period of history. These memoirs, written in Italian and first published in New York, have long been unavailable in English. Sometimes ribald, often… Read More

NYRB Classics, 2000-05-31. Paperback. Like New.

NYRB Classics, 2000-05-31. Paperback. New.

trans.fr.Italian by Elisabeth Abbott, ed. & annot. by Arthur Livingston. 1929, Orion Press NY c.1959, wide 8vo. cloth, 277pp. Venice, Vienna, London & America, MozartÕs Librettist &c.&c. soiled cloth, G $

New York, NY: Dover Publications, 1967. Soft cover. Good to Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 512 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. There is one small 1/4" crease to the top right corner front cover. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of book binding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

New York: The Orion Press, 1959. 277 pages; 25 b&w illustrations. "Mozart's librettist (and friend), Casanova's friend, the first Professor of Italian Literature at Columbia University." Reads like a novel with a stream of characters and places that the author encounters. Clean throughout; binding tight; boards darkened on edges. Jacket chipped with some material loss at extremities.. Embossed Quarter Cloth. Very Good/Good. 10" x 7".

Dover. Used - Good. Good condition. (Mozart, librettist, memoirs). A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

The orion Press, 1959. Hardcover. Good Condition/Fair. Illustrator: . 277 pages. Translated from the Italian by Elisabeth Abbott. Name inside, moderate wear, yellowing to the pages and covers; a good solid book. The jacket is chipped and scuffed, discolored. "Mozart's librettist, Casanova's friend, first professor of Italian literature at Columbia University." Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 198291. .

New York: The Orion Press, 1959. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Reprint, 1959, hardcover with cloth-backed boards in dust jacket, large octavo, 277pp., illustrated in b&w. Book VG with mild wear to corners and spine ends, hint of toning to edges of boards, binding tight, text clean and unmarked. DJ VG with mild chipping to spine ends, other mild edgewear, rubbing and toning.

Houghton Mifflin Co. Hardcover. Good - Cash/Fair. General use wear, surface and edges rubbed. Corners bumped and show wear. Pages show reader wear. Previous owner's name and date inside. DJ has heavy edge chipping, tearing, rubbing and creasing. The dj spine is heavily sun discolored. Stock photos may not look exactly like the book.

NY: Dover, (1967). Trade paperback (rustica, broche). Spine sunned and lightly creased, owner's crossed out name and date on front blank else clean tight copy: VG. 8vo. Numerous sepia toned illustrations.. Translated from the Italian by Elisabeth Abbott. Edited & annotated by Arthur Livingston. Unabridged reprint of the 1929 Lippincott edition with the preface by Thomas G. Bergin from the 1959 Orion edition.

J.B. Lippincott, 1929. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 512 pages. Light wear to the blue covers; pages tanned; a sound binding; very good shape. Clear plastic wrapper. Translated by Elizabeth Abbott from the Italian. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: History; Inventory No: 198278. .