Edited by joseph monet (5 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Giacomo Casanova. Casanova's Memoirs. Edited by Joseph Monet, with drawings by Vincente Minnelli. New York: Privately Printed, 1930; copyright 1930 by Exotica Club, Inc. Title page bears the Macy's retail stamp. English-language illustrated hardcover. Maroon cloth with silver pictorial stamping; spine markedly faded and discolored. Good condition, with rubbing and fraying at corners and spine ends, age-toned pages, and a small closed tear at the top edge of one photographed text page. Small pencil notation on an endpaper. No dust jacket. See all nine photographs of the actual copy. Approximately 6.5 x 9.5 x 1.5 inches. One volume. Carefully packed for shipment. Vincente Minnelli (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Ah, Histoire de ma vie (History of My Life), better known to the world as Casanova's Memoirs, is a classic of European literature and a treasure trove of 18th-century social history. Written by the notorious adventurer and self-proclaimed ladies' man Giacomo Casanova, it's a whirlwind journey through his travels, escapades, and, of course, love affairs. Despite its controversial subject matter, Casanova's Memoirs is a literary masterpiece. Casanova's writing is witty, engaging, and often surprisingly philosophical. He paints vivid portraits of the people he meets and the places he visits, transporting the reader to another time and place. A faded binding but good reading copy with drawings by Vincente Minelli.…

290pp. Illustrated in black and white with drawings by Vincente Minelli Ex-library, spine and cover edges sunned else clean tight copy, college library stamps on bottom edges and front endpaper: VG-/no dj.

Hardcover. Octavo, 290 pages. In Good condition with a Poor dust jacket. Spine pictorial silver with blue lettering. Exterior shows severe wear including several instances of open chips to the edges, scuffing and soiling. Slight age toning and minor offsetting to jacket interiorly. Boards have modest wear including sunning and rubbing to the edges. Text block has very light wear including age toning and slight soiling to the edges. Deckled fore edge. Previous owner's bookplate to the front pastedown. Frontispiece. Slight offsetting to the end papers, page twenty three and facing page. Illustrated. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column O, ND-O. 1390182. FP New Rockville Stock.…

Cloth. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. The light raspberry binding has a woman outlined in silver stamped into the cover, the corners are lightly bumped, there is a small hole to the cloth on the bottom edge, the title is in silver on the spine; there are some water spots to the top edge of the back cover. The top, fore and bottom edges have a small amount of foxing. The endpapers are age yellowed with a former owners name, the first free endpaper has some water damage. The frontispiece is a black and white drawing. The interior is bright and clean. The dust jacket has some chips and tears but it does not hurt the black and white drawing or the blue title on the front, the back of the jacket has other books by Rarity press, Inc., the corners are uncut. Vincente Minnelli (illustrator).…