Stories from the Decameron of Boccaccio Stories Told During Ten Days by Ten Young People Who Left Florence to Save Themselves from the Great Plague Which Struck Their City in 1348 / Edited by Colin Bennett ; Illustrations by Andrew Skilleter
by Boccaccio, Giovanni; Colin Bennett
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Seller
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Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
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About This Item
[London] : Peter Lowe. Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket. 1980. Hardcover. Tight unmarked book in bright red boards; in glossy dust jacket with dampstaining along the fold lines (book unaffected except for extreme foreedge of rear endpaper). 10 impresive colour paintings along with black and white drawings. ; 160 pages .
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- Bookseller
- B-Line Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51645
- Title
- Stories from the Decameron of Boccaccio Stories Told During Ten Days by Ten Young People Who Left Florence to Save Themselves from the Great Plague Which Struck Their City in 1348 / Edited by Colin Bennett ; Illustrations by Andrew Skilleter
- Author
- Boccaccio, Giovanni; Colin Bennett
- Illustrator
- Andrew Skilleter
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ in Fair dust jacket
- Publisher
- [London] : Peter Lowe
- Date Published
- 1980
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
B-Line Books
Biblio member since 2003
Amherst, Nova Scotia
About B-Line Books
B-Line Books is an internet business operating from my large home in Amherst, Nova Scotia. I am a retired English teacher with a lifetime of gathered books for sale. Presently, about 24,000 books in 90 categories are listed with an emphasis in the humanities. I look for books I am interested in myself, and feel that most of the inventory is of high quality. See for yourself.
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Good+
- A term used to denote a condition a slight grade better than Good.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...