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FORTUNE IS A RIVER: Leonardo Da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli's Magnificent Dream to Change the Course of Florentine History.
New York: The Free Press, 1998. dj. Hardcover - The story of the mysterious friendship between Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolo Machiavelli that changed history and almost accomplished one of the most ambitious plans of the city-state of Florence (Leonardo's concept to build a system of canals that would make the Arno River navigable from Florence to the sea, a project begun in 1504.). Roger Masters, a distinguished historical scholar, reconstructs this project and its failure, fills in many details of the relationship between the two giants of the Renaissance, and raises tantalizing questions on how history might have taken a different course had the project succeeded. Masters's reconstruction is both fascinating and plausible. Illustrated. Extensive notes, sources, index. 278 pages. ISBN: 0-684-844524.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 22134More details Price: $15.00 -
A YEAR IN THE WORLD: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (2006.) dj. Hardcover first edition - "With her beloved Tuscany as a home base, Mayes travels to Spain, Portugal, France, The British Isles, elsewhere in Italy, and to the Mediterranean world of Turkey, Greece, and North Africa, Fez" Map endpapers. 420 pp. ISBN: 0-767910052.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 41770More details Price: $15.00 -
BELLA TUSCANY: The Sweet Life in Italy
Edition: 1st trade paperback printing.
New York: Broadway, (2000.). Italy in the springtime - a book full of happiness. 286 pp. ISBN: 0-7679-0284x.
Condition: Very good..
Book ID: 47032More details Price: $9.50 -
IN TUSCANY.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Broadway Books, (2000.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - A lavishly illustrated tribute to Italian village life with new essays by Mayes, including one by her husband poet Edward Mayes, illustrated with 200 full color photographs by Bob Krist, including many 2 page spreads. SIGNED by Frances Mayes on a bookplate on the front endpapers. Slightly oversized, printed on heavy stock, 269 pp. . ISBN: 0-7679-05350.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 56945More details Price: $31.50 -
THE MIRACLE OF CASTEL DI SANGRO.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
Boston: Little Brown, (1999.). First edition - 'In the summer of 1996, McGinnis... set out for the remote Italian village of Castel di Sangro, located deep within the forbidding and isolated region of the Abruzzo.' The footballers - soccer players - of this town, with a population of only 5000, had just won promotion to Serie B, the second highest professional league. This is the story of what he found there - the promotion to B was only the first of the miracles. A fascinating account and while it is a story of triumph, underneath that is a sad underton, as 'the system' wins out. 404 pp.
Condition: Fine in red and gold wrappers with French flaps. Much less common than the hardcover edition which had a first printing of 100,000 copies.
Book ID: 40554More details Price: $20.00 -
A MAN OF NO MOON.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, (2007.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Novel set in postwar Rome - in 1948 - and in the world of resurgent cinema. The story of a poet, translator and lover. SIGNED on the title page. 276 pp. ISBN: 9781582433752.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)
Book ID: 39217More details Price: $35.00 -
THE CARDINAL'S PAWN: How Florence Set, How Venice Checked, and How the Game Fell Out.
Edition: First US printing.
Chicago/ London: A.C. McClurg/ T. Fisher Unwin, 1910. Hardcover first edition - The author's first novel, an historical romance set in Italy, and published as a title in Unwin's First Novel Library. Contemporary reviews were very complimentary with The Guardian mentioning Montgomery's great gifts and her promise and Punch stating that "there is no page in this enthralling book but glows with colour and is alive with the stir of adventure." 293 pp.
Condition: Fair condition only in red cloth with pasted on illustration on the front cover (missing frontispiece, soiling to pp 274-75, front hinge cracking, wear to covers)
Book ID: 74471More details Price: $20.00 -
A VENETIAN BESTIARY.
Edition: First US printing.
New York & London: Thames & Hudson Ltd, (1982) dj. Hardcover first edition - "A celebration in words and pictures of a 'mighty menagerie of fact and fantasy': the animals of Venice, from its ubiquitous cats and barge dogs to the Golden Stallions and Winged Lion of St Mark." with 77 illustrations, 16 in color. Oblong format. 128 pp. ISBN: 0-500233543.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket (lower corners bumped, small spot to back flap and inside of dj)
Book ID: 84935More details Price: $21.50 -
SOLO: An American Dreamer in Europe: 1933-1934.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1983.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The novelist's account of a year he spent as a young man travelling around Europe - France, Austria, Italy. - in the heart of the Depression, and at a time of political turmoil. He is himself broke and sometimes hungry, but this book is full of humor (including some oddball characters) and the events of that year changed him as a novelist forever. 196 pp. ISBN: 0-06-015165x.
Condition: Near fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33552More details Price: $20.00 -
LOVE AFFAIR - A VENETIAN JOURNAL.
Edition: First printing.
New York: Harper & Row, (1972.) dj. Hardcover first edition - A beautiful book which "celebrates, in words and full-color photographs, the adventure of living in the world's most astonishing city." Illustrated with forty-four full-page color photographs by the author. Large square format, unpaginated, printed on glossy paper throughout. ISBN: 0-06-013092X.
Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket. (upper corners slightly bumped.)
Book ID: 44498More details Price: $30.00 -
CARAVAGGIO: Painter on the Run.
Edition: First printing.
Berkeley, CA: Creston Books, (2016). SIGNED hardcover first edition - Young adult historical novel set during the late Renaissance - and the time of the Inquisition -based on the life of Caravaggio, who dared to rebel against the rules for painting. SIGNED on the half title page and dated in the year of publication. 345 pp plus an author's note, timeline and bibliography. ISBN: 978-1939547293.
Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated boards (a new copy).
Book ID: 68485More details Price: $25.00 -
MUSSOLINI: A Biography.
Edition: First US printing.
New York: St Martin's, 1998. dj. Hardcover first edition - A comprehensive biography of the Italian dictator, from his youth in 19th century Italy to his death in 1945. Photographs, index, bibliography. 430 pages.
Condition: Near fine in a near fine dustjacket.
Book ID: 15710More details Price: $20.00 -
DEATH OF AN ENGLISHMAN.
Edition: Trade paperback.
New York: SOHO Press, (2001.). The first mystery featuring Marshal Guarnaccia of the Florence police force, originally published in 1981. 185 pp plus an excerpt from 'Death of a Dutchman.'. ISBN: 1-56947-2548.
Condition: Fine in illustrated wrappers.
Book ID: 62549More details Price: $9.50 -
THE BOOK OF UNHOLY MISCHIEF.
Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )
New York: A t r i a B o o k s , (2008.). First edition - "