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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

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