New York: The Bibliophilist Society. Fair with no dust jacket. c. 1930. First Edition. First Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full black cloth, gilt lettering on spine, fore-edge deckle, top edge red. Illustrated with B&W frontispiece portrait of Boccaccio, and several full-page B&W plates on glossy stock. . Spine sunned and moderately worn, printed bookplate on fep, gift inscription on first preliminarey page (dated December 25, 1938), hinges sprung, else good. FAIR. B&W Plates. 4to 11" - 13" tall. xii, 310, vii, 307 pp .

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Bookseller: Round Table Books, LLC (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 22736
Title: The Decameron of Boccaccio
Author: Boccaccio, Giovanni
Format/Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Used - Fair with no dust jacket
Edition: First Edition. First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Bibliophilist Society
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: c. 1930
Keywords: Fiction;, Novel;, Literature;, Boccaccio;, Stories;, Black death;, Plague;, Decameron;, Renaissance;

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